I use KeepassXC on my laptop (completely offline), export the encrypted backup copy and store the backup offline copy and in cloud. Also, I manually import the backup file into my Keepass2AndroidOffline android app (it’s a hassle, but I’m okay with it)

But for normies (non-technical folks), the benefits and convenience of using a cloud-based password manager is far outweighed by any security vulnerabilities in such password managers.

Also, Bitwarden’s source code is open-source (unlike other closed-source password managers), so I trust it more.

It’s best to use either Cloudflare (best IMO) or Anubis.

1. If you don’t want any AI bots, then you can setup Anubis (open source; requires JavaScript to be enabled by the end user): https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

2. Cloudflare automatically setups robots.txt file to block “AI crawlers” (but you can setup to allow “AI search” for better SEO). Eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/#putting-up-a-guardrail-with-cloudflares-managed-robots-txt

Cloudflare also has an option of “AI labyrinth” to serve maze of fake data to AI bots who don’t respect robots.txt file.

Most people are unaware that even open source projects have licenses: Permissive license, Strong Copyleft, Weak Copyleft etc.

Some resources:

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409042029/https://www.mend.io/blog/top-open-source-licenses-explained/
2. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
3. https://fast.org/is-your-software-ip-really-your-ip/

Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:

1. https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/
2. Blog series: https://brave.com/series/security-privacy-in-agentic-browsing/

The software engineer acknowledged that AI tools can help improve productivity if used properly, but for programmers with relatively limited experience, he feels the harm is greater than the benefit. Most of the junior developers at the company, he explained, don’t remember the syntax of the language they’re using due to their overreliance on Cursor.

Good luck for the future developers I guess.

companies that’ve spent money on AI enterprise licenses need to show some sort of ROI to the bean-counters. Hence, mandates.

Can’t wait for AI bubble to pop. If this continues, expect more incidents/outages due to AI generated slop code in the future.

Unrelated but relevant advice: Is this a refurbished laptop?

1. Make sure to run Lenovo Diagnostics software; you can get it from official Lenovo website and check for any hardware issues during the stress testing.
2. Check if BIOS password is removed.
3. Test for memory RAM errors: disable secure boot in BIOS, then run Memtest86 test via a bootable USB to check for any memory errors.