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New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:57:10 +0000

In case you want to edit it back in: in the 3rd paragraph second sentence, the star in your int* got gobble up by formatting to italics.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:48:21 +0000

This links to “Firefox Focus” which is different in the iOS App Store than “Firefox”. I had no idea.

This Firefox Focus on iOS does effectively block adds on a recipe site unlike plain Firefox. I just did a cursory head to head test on the same recipe site url.

Thank you for sharing this!

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:41:38 +0000

IIRC SpaceX bought 20% of the Tesla Cyber Trucks in 2025. Shady af.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:39:14 +0000

At least one more. Elon Musk did two Nazi salutes in a row on video. Pointed at 2 different audience sections.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

ScoobleDoodle — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:34:23 +0000

It looks like at the moment Russia is winning in the end: Links between Trump associates and Russian officials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

How the Russian interests have taken over significantly invalidates the purpose and existence of the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

But then again, President Biden's administration had multiple grounds to prosecute Trump for crimes committed, whether the attempted coup or espionage with top secret documents or Epstein, and they just did not make it happen in a way that had any effect.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:36:25 +0000

I'm clarifying and drawing the distinction related to the following because the responder wasn't responding to what was meant, but what they heard: > Sam didn't "win" the case in the sense that most people will think of when reading this headline.

There are 2 senses of "win" here. You're talking about the "win" (A) where it is achieving victory regardless of reason.

The second type of "win" (B) that is being called out in quotes is one based either on the merits of the law (verses a technicality) or a sense of justice.

I'm not highlight the first sense of win (A) which parent of my comment and you seem to be talking about I'm pointing out grandparent is talking about (B).

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:29:21 +0000

I think parent probably means winning on merit or a sense of justice. As in won for a deserved reason rather than a technicality. The technicality here is exceeded the statute of limitations.

A win in any manner isn’t landing the same for observers as winning for a just reason.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:25:25 +0000

For someone with more knowledge than me: How does this affect other Chromium based browsers?

I did some web searches and see Brave has its own AI thing “Leo” that is intended to preserve privacy. But I don’t think that is on device. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

I use Firefox myself but have family and friends who use various Chromium based browsers.

Thank you.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:56:58 +0000

It doesn't seem to be mostly just fluff to me.

MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos' ex wife) show it can be turned into real money. As of December 2025 She had given away $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations, and $26.3 billion since 2019.

In reality there is the ability to execute on the shares to turn them into real money.

Jeff Bezos holds less than 10% of Amazon stock himself. Which is a huge amount of money, and a not insignificant amount of which can be turned into "real" money and even with some decline is still a phenomenal amount.

In that same time period the stock valuation has more than doubled.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:01:43 +0000

Except GP said they also pointed it to the source website to reference and then had the follow up weirdness.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:52:27 +0000

KYC: Know your customer or know your client (KYC) laws, regulations and guidelines in financial services require regulated businesses and professionals to verify the identity, suitability, and risks involved with maintaining a business relationship with a customer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

ScoobleDoodle — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:56:14 +0000

SpaceX bought nearly 20% of Cyber Trucks sold in Q4. That makes me question the level of real profitability.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

ScoobleDoodle — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:52:34 +0000

They’re saying it’s equivalent to writing a letter to their attorney in an online (Google) doc. Does that Google doc fall under attorney client privilege?

If so, then does a Google doc for your attorney written with Google AI auto enabled have attorney client privilege?

If so, the AI chats for figuring out what you want to say to your attorney would seem to fall under the same category. And so there is either a contradiction or an unintended widening of scope.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

ScoobleDoodle — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:28:41 +0000

If you're a California constituent and inclined to take action you can find your California Assemblymember and Senator here ( https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ ) to voice opposition to California bill A.B. 2047 "Firearms: 3-dimensional printing blocking technology."

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

ScoobleDoodle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:31 +0000

I looked it up at https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/ and didn't find Flock / Flock Safety in that list of the currently registered 566 data brokers.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

ScoobleDoodle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:15:17 +0000

PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

ScoobleDoodle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:23:33 +0000

I feel seen :)

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

ScoobleDoodle — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:32 +0000

I have a UPS with surge protection which I plug my computer into for this reason. Do others do the same or use something else?

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

ScoobleDoodle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:00:21 +0000

Right. My current computer has Windows OS at the moment.

New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video"

ScoobleDoodle — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:51:47 +0000

I paid the additional payment because I hate watching ads and wanted to watch some series without it. Now Amazon Prime Video has made some ads show even while having this additional payment!