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New comment by goolz in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

goolz — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:38:26 +0000

I swear it is like we stumbled into a real life PKD book.

New comment by goolz in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

goolz — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:34:49 +0000

Honestly, a great question that I would have to think on. Whatever limits both their power, haha. Not really an answer, but I think what it boils down to is accountability. I work with a lot of state and federal cops. They are good people for the most part with good hearts. I am still incredibly weary of police on the whole. It seems that both commissioned and elected LEO lack the right level of accountability and we would do well to curb their immunity.

New comment by goolz in "Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests"

goolz — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:46:39 +0000

Police abuse of power in the US is a systemic problem. Your opinion is akin to thinking the Catholic church bears no burden for all the diddling they neglected to observe.

New comment by goolz in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

goolz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:33:59 +0000

The blind leading the blind. These companies and Sam are both devoid of any sort of ethical code aside from C.R.E.A.M.

New comment by goolz in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

goolz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:44:27 +0000

Hard agree. There was a time when I really enjoyed these packs of tan, grid moleskins that had covers you could also sketch on. Really convenient. But the pricing was too much. Paying a premium for what is essentially a designer notebook.

New comment by goolz in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:58:31 +0000

If Anthropic disappeared tomorrow due to running out of cash it would cause a great panic, no?

New comment by goolz in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:09:21 +0000

Life without death would lack urgency. I do not know what happens when I die, ergo I am curious. Not mutually exclusive.

New comment by goolz in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:04:41 +0000

That wall is concrete and material. Death is not so much. I am reasonably sure you can do that with great accuracy while still having zero idea what lies in wait for us after we die. A false equivalence.

New comment by goolz in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:48:08 +0000

It is a clinical term, you are arguing over semantics. Cardiopulmonary death to be specific. My point is: no one knows, not you, not me, and not my dog.

New comment by goolz in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:12 +0000

I medically died a couple years back. I don’t remember a thing, so perhaps you are right. Still curious.

New comment by goolz in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:41:46 +0000

Even so, it has a weird aftertaste that lingers on the palette. All sugar-free elixirs I have found to be subpar.

New comment by goolz in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

goolz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:39:22 +0000

Living forever sounds awful. For one, I am extremely curious what happens when I die. Without death, life becomes a hollow shell, or at least I imagine it would, as you would lack urgency.

New comment by goolz in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

goolz — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:57:38 +0000

Worth note their leaders and allies are bereft of morality.

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

goolz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:29:45 +0000

I personally disagree on the first point. Claude code in a terminal with vim is much nicer. I just don’t see the need for the bloat of an IDE when the CLI versions work so damn well now.

New comment by goolz in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

goolz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:08:47 +0000

Thank you for reminding me of yet another existential dread.

New comment by goolz in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

goolz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:22:06 +0000

The pace at which we sprint toward a full blown surveillance state, with unaccountable oracles sentencing us for pre-crime, is alarming to say the least.

New comment by goolz in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

goolz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:13:47 +0000

Self inflicted these incidents are. All Blizzard needs to do is follow the lead of the OSRS team, make the old game and add new breadth, listen to your players not your shareholders. For all the dumb mistakes Jagex has made at least you feel heard with their polling and it feels like their is progression.

The team running WoW just care that you buy the new mount bundle every season. It is no wonder PvP has been dead for like a decade, the races to world first are only two serious guilds competing against each other and in general both Classic and Retail are memes in the year of our lord 2026. Retail in particular is a lobby game, not really an RPG, where you just queue into things and barely have to explore. Perhaps I am just bitter and jaded but I feel like we lost something so special along the way, and that makes me really bummed, haha.

New comment by goolz in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

goolz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:04:46 +0000

Did you ever play Turtle? They did a lot more than just that, as per the top comment in this lineage, and were serving a subset of the community by listening to what people want. Turtle WoW was popular because Blizzard and the shareholders do not care about making a fun and engaging game. They care about you spending money in their store and finding ways to poison the economy with their own gold buying system. WoW died in December 2010, the true spirit at least. Makes me sad to say that, and I hope Classic+ is everything we dreamed, but framing Turtle as just another private server is disingenuous. They were on the wrong side of the law, and perhaps they did get some money for their efforts, but at least they tried harder than the entire WoW Classic team combined.

New comment by goolz in "Veracrypt project update"

goolz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:39:22 +0000

I have had Bazzite on my gaming PC for a while now, never have to mess with the terminal much. It has come a long, long way. Even gentoo has become more accessible than ever. While some of this holds true, you most certainly do not need to live in the command line with some of these distros. Especially if you are just trying to play some games and browse the web, etc.

New comment by goolz in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

goolz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:33:53 +0000

I imagine most of them were motivated by money. OpenAI was supposed to be Open. As I understand it, it was not created for shareholder profits and instead was made to benefit everyone? Hence the Open name. Then someone like Sam comes along who can make you incredibly rich by casually ignoring the initial mission. Would you go against this incredibly powerful billionaire who by many accounts is not encumbered by ethical quandaries? In doing so you risk your financial freedom, and for what? OAI is already a husk of its intended purpose. Mine as well get paid to be a sellout.