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New comment by Boltgolt in "Our approach to EU text provenance rules"

Boltgolt — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:32:18 +0000

> And of course, cookies are no longer needed for invasive tracking, fingerprinting, and data disaggregation. Been this for years. But hey, bureaucracies never backtrack, so we will have the cookie consent until the thermal death of the universe.

The exact method of tracking doesn't matter. Under GDPR you have to ask for consent no matter the technology used. So as long as tracking every single movement remains the norm, we will have consent banners

New comment by Boltgolt in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

Boltgolt — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:11:29 +0000

You do have to request them and the person you requested them for will know you did so

New comment by Boltgolt in "Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery"

Boltgolt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:47:39 +0000

Why would anyone pay for these tokens?

New comment by Boltgolt in "Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029"

Boltgolt — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:58:45 +0000

I wish to have the confidence of an American opinion on anything that's different than the US. Studies show that resocialization works and has worked for decades without a sign of "learning it the hard way" in sight

New comment by Boltgolt in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

Boltgolt — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:52:43 +0000

> I feel like this is going to end up being like cookie laws

Companies will implement it in the worst way possible? Nowhere in the cookie laws does it say you need to add a banner, you just can't spy on users without their consent.

New comment by Boltgolt in "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"

Boltgolt — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:35:49 +0000

BOYD is corporate to me, BYOC LANs were common here

New comment by Boltgolt in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

Boltgolt — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:01:35 +0000

Updates? To an ESPHome device?

New comment by Boltgolt in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

Boltgolt — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:48:55 +0000

I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago

New comment by Boltgolt in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

Boltgolt — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:35:13 +0000

> Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension.

Okay LLM

New comment by Boltgolt in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

Boltgolt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:34:52 +0000

> So many tech writers seemed to suddenly decide this was a possibility at the same time

Wonder if any large geopolitical rifts happened eh. I soul would not host my application in Russia either for instance

New comment by Boltgolt in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

Boltgolt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:49:48 +0000

For a specific group of people in the world anything but "USA nr1" is hard to image, I understand. Can the nuanced take be: Europe does it better sometimes? Not the best slogan but you're not in marketing

New comment by Boltgolt in "A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm"

Boltgolt — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:20:33 +0000

We can all run this through our LLM if choice, why post this?

New comment by Boltgolt in "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

Boltgolt — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:32:18 +0000

When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN

New comment by Boltgolt in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

Boltgolt — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:12:33 +0000

Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"

New comment by Boltgolt in "New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes"

Boltgolt — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:03:40 +0000

This is like being in the 2000s and saying "Why would I use anything but IE5, everything works with it"

The market share is what makes those circumstances exceptionally rare. Meanwhile we're having to use safari specific fixes and refrain from using he newest standards just because of safari

New comment by Boltgolt in "I Accidentally Finished a Filesystem"

Boltgolt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:24:26 +0000

"No X, no X, no X, just Y"

New comment by Boltgolt in "Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973"

Boltgolt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:44:24 +0000

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New comment by Boltgolt in "A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall"

Boltgolt — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:46:45 +0000

...only to find out they invaded the wrong country! (Nobel peace prizes are awarded in Oslo)

New comment by Boltgolt in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Boltgolt — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:39:35 +0000

I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot

New comment by Boltgolt in "Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth"

Boltgolt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:35:22 +0000

Kessler Syndrome mentioned in the first line? With the air resistance at 400km that seems unlikely