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BartShoot··on EU KIDS Act
Mandatory age verification everywhere, with varying level of privacy concerns. Tying your digital presence to identity, with service providers forced cooperation in this endeavor.

And for the online gaming mandatory external age verification services, which will only permit existence of official servers and cost an arm and a leg.

BartShoot··on CPU Performance Engineering
seems like impressive set of sources, wonder how long it would take to read all of it, not to mention internalize and be able to use in your day to day
BartShoot··on "Biggest threat yet": New EU rules could restrict online gaming
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920205
BartShoot··on EU KIDS Act
And like many great minds before me said: "It's never just about kids" when people talk about kids safety, so often this is used to push unfavorable laws cuz "think about the kids!!"
BartShoot··on EU KIDS Act
Hearing about it from privacy activists and movements like stop killing games is a little devastating, the law in this shape should not pass and its horrible that it even is drafted/proposed in it's current shape.
BartShoot··on Is Big Tech's AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
I think we all know that companies rarely take users best interests over profit
BartShoot··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
and who considers themselves to be in that lower half? Probably a lot less than half of the population
BartShoot··on We run Postgres on local NVMe
That should be quite obvious for people who respect the hardware they work on

Having in mind rough numbers of all the latency involved on each "hop" from CPU is crucial

BartShoot··on Create videos for your products using your terminal/IDE
There are already ton of solutions to this, like https://asciinema.org/ How is this stand out?
BartShoot··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
I guess that's hard to measure, higher screen time could be correlated with less caregiving from parents - screen will not teach them.
BartShoot··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
if you had to ask it obviously needs to refactor code for clarity so next person does not need to ask
BartShoot··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
the real free ecosystem is your programming language of choice, audio and graphics drives with I/O from the system