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New comment by MyMemoryfails in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

MyMemoryfails — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:09:18 +0000

so instead of burnerphones, they will steal phones and keep phone awake until they have accomplished the crime they gonna do.

This is what always happens when governments enforce laws like this, victims and innoncents always suffer as result.

Its happening in finance where criminals groom dumb teengers for laundering money, or eldery's bank accounts they obtain via installing remote software.

So lets add 1 more reason for criminals to steal phone.

Edit: This is also happening in crypto world where criminals perform fake KYC. I guess with age verifications, this crime will increase in demand multiplefold and the last defense ID will be obsolete after data leaks and the fraud happening around it.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

MyMemoryfails — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:48:58 +0000

As finn. I can verify scam calls are non-existent lately few do occasinally popup, but its like 2000 times better than before. When i learned about this originally, i was shocked like how this is not default?

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

MyMemoryfails — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:36:25 +0000

This is correct attitude, for example some people actually got arresred for supporting ukraine efforts on war. I disagree that all my assets must be seized because i donated few bucks for sake protecting invaded country.

Ukraine event's is prime example why finanical privacy is important. I think we're solving taxing issue from wrong angle, we should be look this another angle: Merchants should be identifiable and taxable while customer stay private. GNU's solution "Talor" is very interesting and promising.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

MyMemoryfails — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:40:59 +0000

As game dev, i never understood why floats are used to present colors? Isn't integers better? The issues which this article mentioned wouldn't exist.

I can only think its due integers having undefined behavior what happens on overflow, usually its wrapping but not always.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

MyMemoryfails — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:32:14 +0000

Dont forget what kicked this age verification in first place. Initially they wanted do age verification for porn, and only year later they moved into social media seeing there's wasn't huge pushback.

So even if this change doesn't affect you right now, but it will affect you later then it'll be too late to fight agaisnt.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

MyMemoryfails — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:38:53 +0000

Same, for same reason i refuse pay for services, in past paying for service would mean they wouldn't track you and sell your data, but thats not longer the case. Since that's additional profits for companies.

Luckily there's few exemptions services which im happily paying since its proven they dont collect your data so advertisers can't prey on you when you're at lowest.

Like did you know, just by obtaining credit card, your shopping history is sold? And you can't reject this, at least i haven't managed to do so. Yet in EU we're banning cash, where's option so i can buy my grocies without insurances knowing i bought candies for weekends so they'll hike insurance up.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos"

MyMemoryfails — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:29:42 +0000

Quite huge leap from predicting next tokens, this feels they're trying saying most crazy things for attention to remind they're AI and still a thing.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

MyMemoryfails — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:23:43 +0000

I think he means browser permissions, for example when browsers want notify or record your mic theres a permission check something similar for webgl.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

MyMemoryfails — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:12:09 +0000

I'd simply check filling speed, even with browser's autocomplete humans are slow due needing click submit.

Then when it's "processing", do them in bulk and prioritize slower users. There's huge opportunity do bot checks after checkout without affecting user experience.

Also on product launches you could add unique field which requires user to input, for example that way bots can't prepare for launches.

New comment by MyMemoryfails in "CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents"

MyMemoryfails — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:01:52 +0000

Sex also works very well, asking questions like following: male inserts penis into?

I think this method is more effective since there's not much room for imagination.

Side effect, this probably works as alternative for age verification aswell, but thats different topic.