Online age verification is the hill to die on https://x.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560
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1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.
Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.
This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables…
1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.
Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.
This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables…
Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql
read.thecoder.cafe
How Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
Linux 7.0 delivered roughly half the throughput of Linux 6.x on the same hardware and workload.
Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/28/court-rules-2nd-amendment-covers-firearms-parts-good-news-for-those-who-build-guns/
Cowboy State Daily
Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts, Good News for Those Who Build Guns
A federal court ruled that firearms parts without serial numbers could be protected under the Second Amendment. That’s good news for Wyomingites who build…
Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker https://github.com/electricant/adblock-rust-manager
GitHub
GitHub - electricant/adblock-rust-manager: A Firefox extension that enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine
A Firefox extension that enables and manages Firefox's built-in adblock-rust engine - electricant/adblock-rust-manager
An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope
GitHub
GitHub - GliaX/Stethoscope: A research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available Freely and openly. The cost of the entire…
A research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available Freely and openly. The cost of the entire stethoscope is between $2.5 to $5 to produce - GliaX/Stethoscope
FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
www.agwa.name
FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying
Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation
Chrisbrunet
Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown; Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction
"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing
the Guardian
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Critics say Maryland’s new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness https://deepmind.google/research/publications/231971/
Google DeepMind
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness
Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundamentally…
Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/making-ai-chatbots-more-friendly-mistakes-support-false-beliefs-conspiracy-theories-study
the Guardian
Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds
Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers say
HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
GitHub
HERMES.md in git commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing instead of plan quota · Issue #53262 · anthropics/claude…
Summary When a git repository's recent commit history contains the case-sensitive string HERMES.md, Claude Code routes API requests to "extra usage" billing instead of the included Ma...
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings
GitHub
GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts.
Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.
Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html
Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/improving-handovers-by-learning-from-scuderia-ferrari
healthmanagement.org
Improving handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari
Introduction It has been nearly a decade since seminal reports and associated research documenting the surprising frequency of accidental injury in healthc...
"People who don't use AI will be left behind" https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont-use-ai-will-be-left-behind/
migraine brain
"People who don't use AI will be left behind"
"People who don't use AI will be left behind", they say.
I can't emphasize enough how much I hate it when I hear/read shit like that because I'm pretty sur...
I can't emphasize enough how much I hate it when I hear/read shit like that because I'm pretty sur...
Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials
Promptarmor
Ramp’s Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
Assess and monitor risk from AI in vendors with novel intelligence on emerging threats. Stay ahead of AI-driven third-party risk with continuous moitoring and adaptive insight.