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

edoceo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:41:05 +0000

It's easy-ish to verify someone is human and of-age without needing any intrusive agent. One big problem is that the folk pushing for surveillance via verification hate that model and have capital to crush the idea. Another is adoption of some system that works; where the perfect blocks what's good which results in no progress.

New comment by edoceo in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

edoceo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:57:03 +0000

IMO a big disservice to the universe has been done with the recurring revenue drive. Many services could/should offer a one-shot option, with the highest margin. Somehow the world got stuck on SaaS model so hard that one off is completely ignored.

I know why the capital class loves MRR I'm just mad that OTC is ignored.

New comment by edoceo in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

edoceo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:54:51 +0000

If vulnerability=compulsion and software=meat bags then yes.

New comment by edoceo in "CSS is DOOMed"

edoceo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:59:01 +0000

There are some new key-trap ApIs that can handle that, IIRC FF don't handle that part as well as Chrome.

New comment by edoceo in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

edoceo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:29:57 +0000

Has been my experience. Like, orders of magnitude slower.

For flipping around a few seconds of video it's ok - but it's only processing (on my machine) like 2fps.

New comment by edoceo in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

edoceo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:59:20 +0000

How could that experiment work?

New comment by edoceo in "Clockwise acquired by Salesforce"

edoceo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:56:02 +0000

Starting a company, that can get PMF, raise funds and grow is like 2% success rate. Then exiting for upside is like 2% of that previous 2%.

The number of problems, the type of problems, the scale of the problems. Oof.

New comment by edoceo in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

edoceo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:24:34 +0000

More thing for Spotify is that their users are, more or less, locked in. That stickyness is what allows companies to try this dumb shit; management will hardly feel the impact of their bad choices - cause they are standing on many years of foundations.

It's like when Homer Simpson was carried up the mountain by Sherpas and thought he owned the achievement.

New comment by edoceo in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

edoceo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:10:26 +0000

Mistake, too late to delete

New comment by edoceo in "Nasdaq's Shame"

edoceo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:38:56 +0000

Is this grey cause it's wrong? They are all on Nasdaq; and also around 35% of S&P. What am I missing? Is it that the "Most indexes" part is wrong (cause there are more than a few thousand ETF)?

New comment by edoceo in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

edoceo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:27:50 +0000

There was another recent study showing that THC was creating false short term memories - like "I swear I told you that" - but never did.

Cannabis really needs a lot more study.

New comment by edoceo in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

edoceo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:27:29 +0000

There was another recent study showing that THC was creating false short term memories - like "I swear I told you that" - but never did.

New comment by edoceo in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

edoceo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:25:32 +0000

a) It wouldn't kill them. They would have to change their business model though.

b) Shouldn't our laws prioritize natural-persons over corporate desires?

Companies don't have a right to a specific revenue model. Humans should have a right to their own identity.

New comment by edoceo in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

edoceo — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:06:26 +0000

Can a TPM be faked in a QEMU VM?

New comment by edoceo in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

edoceo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:05:49 +0000

What kind of time and money and opportunity cost would it take to right this wrong?

New comment by edoceo in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

edoceo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:04:38 +0000

This is the correct take. And it's frustrating! To fix the problem an individual has to fight a huge, multi-party system (law, jurisdiction, police, tech-provider) - it's a (near) impossible feat for a person.

New comment by edoceo in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

edoceo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:38:14 +0000

Don't nit-pick the "couple". It was used casually - like to mean not terribly long time. So the 2-6 spread, while technically big, is still just a trifle. While I'm nit-picking; up thread is talking about a limited box for CI and you're talking about scaling up real business workloads. That's just like the difference between 2 and 6. Give it a rest.

Everyone: run your scenarios and expectations in a spreadsheet and then use real data to run your CBA. Your case will be unique(ish) so make your case for your situation.

New comment by edoceo in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

edoceo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:48:07 +0000

I've only just heard of it. But, I already knew to not run random scripts under a privileged account. And thank you for the book suggestion - I'm into those kinds of tales.

New comment by edoceo in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

edoceo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:46:10 +0000

I've heard it's so parents can get the kids to school at 0800 and then start job a 0900. But why school is out at 1500 and job at 1700 is a mystery.

New comment by edoceo in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

edoceo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:40:14 +0000

I'm sure we're in agreement that, at least in UK, there's been better pubs for 200+ years. I don't know why to go to a chain-pub with some mega-factory beer when the old-local serves a fine bitter from the same county. Am I old?