The Caduceus

Released New Reaction Bot: @DrReactBot

In a recent update, Telegram introduced the capability for bots to react to messages. @DrReactBot uses this feature, allowing it to respond to messages across chats, including private chats, groups, and channels.

The bot is already open-source, and you have the option to restrict its usage to specific emojis:
https://github.com/TheCaduceus/TG-ReactionBot

File Stream Bot upgraded to v1.3!

Fixes:
• Bot not working in channels.
• Fast forward and rewind not working in streaming.
• Longer downloads getting cancelled after 60 seconds.
• File size not shown during download.

New:
• Added resume support.
• Channel IDs (-100) can now be used with ALLOWED_USER_IDS variable.

Hey everyone! just released a new Telegram bot repository on GitHub!

GitHub:
https://github.com/TheCaduceus/FileStreamBot

What does it do?
Let you efficiently transmit your Telegram files over HTTP with plenty of other features, while keeping server resource usage to a minimum, all while ensuring stability.

You can quickly test the bot's public instance, which is specifically designed for demonstration purposes, available at @DrFileStreamBot.

Contribution:
I'm currently seeking someone to design HTTP error web pages for the bot, covering error codes 400, 404, and 500. If you're interested in contributing, then you can send your web page designs to @DrDiscussion or just create a PR. Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Google monopoly killing open web & ad blockers!!! ❌

Engineers at Google recently introduced a new API namely "Web Environment Integrity API" in their chromium project which is used by major browsers like Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave etc as their base.

How it works? ⚙️
The WEI API can detect any changes made by a user to the website code received by their browser and report it to the website owner. This makes it possible for the owner to deny service to that particular user. It’s like having someone constantly monitoring your activity and reporting any wrongdoing.

How it affect our privacy? 🛡
Many of us use extensions, such as ad blockers, to block online ads and trackers. These extensions modify the website code received by our browser to remove unwanted ads, scripts, and trackers. However, with the introduction of the WEI API, website owners can now detect and block these changes caused by extensions, forcing users to either allow tracking & ads or leave the site.

Why it is even worse than it sounds? 👎
The WEI API gives Google and website owners the power to block any browser or extension that they don’t like or that harms their business model, such as the Brave browser and extensions like AdGuard. They can even block users from using developer tools or other methods provided by their browser to make changes to the website code. This also affects users using translators, as these tools also require changes to the website code to function.

You can learn more about the WEI API in a detailed post by AdGuard, available here.

News18: In Massive Data Breach, Details Of 1.2 Crore WhatsApp Users, 2.55 Lakh Defence Staff, 16.8 Cr Citizens Leak.

Read more.

Freenom is dead (from months) and there is no sign of life from their side, many lost their domains (even paid one), I can't help you to get your ownership back but I found some best alternatives you can use to get domains for free without any need to renew them:

1.eu.org
2.open-domains.net
3.js.org
4.is-a-good.dev
5.is-an.app
6.js.cool
7.nic.ua
8.thedev.id
9.domain.dee.al

I personally prefer eu.org, it requires some days to approve your domain (for free of course!) but you don't have to renew it after all!

Freenom users can still renew their domains from here.

Free Unlimited Storage:
As of 23 January 2023, Google completely ended their unlimited storage policy for all workspace plans and now there is no more way to get unlimited or large amount of storage in Google Drive free of cost, so I made a list of alternatives that you can use to get large or unlimited amount of cloud storage for free:

1.Msft 365 E5:
Microsoft 356 E5 Developer subscription offers unlimited access to Office 365 apps and provides OneDrive 5TB of cloud storage for free, in this subscription user can create upto 25 accounts and each account can have its own 5TB of cloud storage, that means we can extend it upto 125TB. This subscription get renewed automatically until you actively perform developer like activities, you can use this tool to keep your subscription active for lifetime.

2.Storj.io:
Storj is block-chain based decentralised cloud storage, it offers E2E encryption and user can upload upto 150GB of data each month, so far there is no limit on total amount of data user can store.

3.LinkBox:
LinkBox offers upto 50GB of permanent storage without any bandwidth limit with API support, sufficient for average users.

4.GoFile:
GoFile provides unlimited amount of cloud storage without any bandwidth limit with full API support, user can store infinite files or folder and can share them publicly without any limit on downloads. User can increase validity of their files by generating fake download request each week.

5.TeraBox:
TeraBox users can get upto 1TB of cloud storage totally for free and can increase limits by doing in-app activities, user can share files publicly but other users will require a TeraBox account to access shared files but in return TeraBox will pay the commission to file owner for sharing files.

6.YouTube as storage:
ISG Tool let user convert any of their files (not just videos) to upload on YouTube by converting the given data into video format, it can covert the video back to original data. Previous week, it was trending on GitHub for almost 3 days.

That's all I found so far.