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New comment by anon_shill in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

anon_shill — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:39:56 +0000

> Ask it if a microservices architecture makes sense for your three-person team and it’ll explain why microservices are an excellent choice.

Just tried this. Claude Opus replied “probably not” and recommended a well structured monolith.

New comment by anon_shill in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

anon_shill — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:17:40 +0000

For what it’s worth, Persona claims to not work or interact with Thiel.

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona-2

New comment by anon_shill in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

anon_shill — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:02:45 +0000

Did you read it? It does neither of those things. It establishes that Meta is fighting to amend these regulatory bills to push onus onto operating systems and Discord isn’t named once in the OP.

New comment by anon_shill in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

anon_shill — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:19:38 +0000

Ehh. In the last corporate PR nightmare I was witness to internally we absolutely tracked return subscribers in our fallout dashboard.

New comment by anon_shill in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

anon_shill — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:16:25 +0000

Yep, it is easy to circumvent, and the silver lining of all of this is that regulators don't care. They care that these companies made an effort in guessing.

New comment by anon_shill in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

anon_shill — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:55:24 +0000

From the second paragraph:

> And the only way to prove that you checked is to keep the data indefinitely.

This is not true and made me immediately stop reading. If a social media app uses a third party vendor to do facial/ID age estimation, the vendor can (and in many cases does) only send an estimated age range back to the caller. Some of the more privacy invasive KYC vendors like Persona persist and optionally pass back entire government IDs, but there are other age verifiers (k-ID, PRIVO, among others) who don't. Regulators are happy with apps using these less invasive ones and making a best effort based on an estimated age, and that doesn't require storing any additional PII. We really need to deconflate age verification from KYC to have productive conversations about this stuff. You can do one thing without doing the other.

New comment by anon_shill in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

anon_shill — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:46:00 +0000

From the article

> Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address, 404 Media has learned. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.

Is ICE using a general purpose app for surveillance or is Palantir making a deportation-centric app for ICE?

New comment by anon_shill in "A Coup Is in Progress in America"

anon_shill — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:29:20 +0000

Correction: 31% of the eligible voting population and ~50% of the popular vote. A lot of people did not vote.