Readit Newsej31 commented on Ask HN: What Happened to xAI? · Posted by u/zof3
5 months is nothing. we launched a rocket twice in that time ngl
ej31 commented on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults cnbc.com/2026/03/08/socia... · Posted by u/bilsbie
The fact that these tools are 'active' centric, i.e : You must perform an action to validate you're NOT a child, these will never protect children. A predator simply needs not to verify anything and appear benign and ironically more anonymous than law abiding people.
I'm not saying the inverse is the answer either, just that if anyone without an agenda of surveillance looked at this for a second, the penny would have dropped. So I can only assume that this was the purpose the whole time.
Age verification doesn't stop determined bad actors, it just builds a database of everyone who cooperated...........
ej31 commented on FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement freebsd.org/releases/14.4... · Posted by u/vermaden
ej31 commented on I put my whole life into a single database howisfelix.today/... · Posted by u/lukakopajtic
The value rarely shows up where you expected it to.
I kept a rough log of my sleep and mood for about a year with no specific goal. Mostly forgot about it. Then I had a weirdly bad few months and went back to look — turns out there was a pretty clear pattern I would've never noticed in the moment.
Maybe the framing of "was it worth it" is the wrong question. It's less like an investment with a return and more like keeping receipts. Useless 99% of the time, then suddenly you really need one.