@thegibson Zero Cool 30 years later, "Man this industry sucks.. I'm gonna be a farmer!"

Seems like a good day to revisit this post about privacy-preserving age verification. (tl;dr -> you can't have it) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/19/privacy%E2%80%91preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with-reality/

many of you are too young to remember when computers were briefly kind of cool

OK my already cool cyberpunk feed reader now has a navigable cyberspace mode complete with whizzing electrons traversing the glowing grid. The central buildings are folders, each floor is a feed. Next up i will have to figure out what cool 3D animation I can pull of to show the new posts for each feed. Would also like to get some cool greebles on the buildings.

It doesn't need to work.

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works