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New comment by loa_in_ in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

loa_in_ — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:42:21 +0000

If and only if you give up, you forfeit and oouse.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act"

loa_in_ — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:22:34 +0000

I guess legislative capture of the market. Moderation is a cost center and becones mandatory so the barrier to creating competition rises.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference"

loa_in_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:09:54 +0000

It's someone up there looking at previous great human achievements and expecting them instead of helping them happen. The philosophy of value capture is the term. Get people who are influential or otherwise able and squeeze it out of them for the immediate profit.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

loa_in_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:53:27 +0000

This seems like statistical bias in measurement, but it's also likely that enthusiasts would have both more count and more valuable items while also being more likely to show them off.

New comment by loa_in_ in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

loa_in_ — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:15:18 +0000

What about identifying different instances of the same service?

New comment by loa_in_ in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

loa_in_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:37:33 +0000

Sounds like something Macx character from the book Accelerando would do.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Lessons from building multiplayer browsers"

loa_in_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:10:39 +0000

One of the best interactive designs of the future I keep wishing were fleshed out is Eagle Mode.

: https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

New comment by loa_in_ in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

loa_in_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:16:48 +0000

What if subatomic particles are actually whole universes, and their properties are a reflection of... what kind of peoples dominated, conquered their universe, and what kind of automation was left running after them themselves were gone. Some kinds of entropy harvesting automata that perpetually self build and become everything in their spacetime.

We're creating forces bigger than ourselves, and we may reach a point of no return.

New comment by loa_in_ in "SilentGlass actively blocks malicious HDMI and Display Port connections"

loa_in_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:23:59 +0000

HDMI spec includes ethernet that can be used to connect otherwise isolated hardware

New comment by loa_in_ in "GPT-5.5"

loa_in_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:51:40 +0000

The distinction is that it's not drawing. It's generating an SVG document containing descriptors of the shapes.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

loa_in_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:27:41 +0000

It being open source also allows you to actually have a read of the software and guarantee things yourself, which is the harder better path anyway.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Your Company Is a Skill Now"

loa_in_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:37:10 +0000

I expected companies actually serving an API for LLMs to peruse, but this is a less technical take, and definitely food for thought.

New comment by loa_in_ in "When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break"

loa_in_ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:23:41 +0000

History of invention in the science of mathematics would show that there is nothing that's useless in the long term. It's all pieces of a puzzle.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Protect your shed"

loa_in_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:01:26 +0000

One can deprioritise health but what does it bring long time? I know it sounds cliche, so I will add that sometimes sacrificing health a little bit is worth pondering.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

loa_in_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:09:35 +0000

The kids you mention likely have multiple VR, AR and other gadget setups in their own home. Too much of a good thing is just that.

New comment by loa_in_ in "DoorDash Tasks"

loa_in_ — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:49:36 +0000

In a certain Euroland country an analogous delivery company just awards the driver minimum hourly payment on certain agreed before hours if they're clearly working but circumstances had them earn less. Minimum wage requirements stifle nothing.

New comment by loa_in_ in "DoorDash Tasks"

loa_in_ — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:41:50 +0000

It's also appears to be a hustle side job employer in PR regarding employment MO, while clearly trying to capture the market for deliveries in weekday work hours.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Fatal Core Dump Game"

loa_in_ — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:06:58 +0000

I think that the best aspect of games or challenges based directly on real life concepts is that the tutorial is the real thing's tutorial. So in this case the man pages and stack overflow.

New comment by loa_in_ in "FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:37:37 +0000

I thought it was easy: watch videos with your kid, don't allow them to doomscroll or be raised by the "featured"/"front page" algorithms.

New comment by loa_in_ in "FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:35:09 +0000

How does one make sure the implementation is sufficient and complete? It feels like assuming total knowledge of the world, which is never true. How many false positives and false negatives do we tolerate? How does it impact a person?