Spotify arbitrarily gatekeeps even basic function like accessing your Liked songs on the PWA

I wonder how things like computers at the library will work. This whole thing is just so stupid and intrusive. I can't imagine anyone will benefit from this except advertisers, doxxers and Big Brother.

You're not really going to be watching porn at the library though, just saying

Age checks certainly won't be restricted only to porn sites. Tons of sites have 13+ ToS like Facebook & the various other social sites, Discord too iirc. The reason people are so adamantly against this proposal is that it ties the machine to a particular identity. So how does a public computer work? If age verification is implemented at the OS level, can we even have public terminals? All those interfaces in stores that are just a website in kiosk mode? Would they be illegally representing end users if it's set as an adult on a master account/login? This proposal is so stupid and poorly thought out it's alarming.

In fact, many libraries have computers sectioned off in semi-private areas exactly for this reason...

Are you sure that's a library?

I mean we have places here like that where you can insert some coins for a private viewing cabin but we don't call them libraries :)

When you review code, do you spend 2 minutes per line? That seems like a huge exaggeration of effort required

I probably review about 1k LoC worth of PRs / day from my coworkers. It certainly doesn't take me 33 hours (!!) to do so, so I must be one of those rockstar 10x superhero ninja engineers I keep hearing about.

Are your coworkers producing the code using LLMs? And what level of trust do you place in them?

For half my coworkers, their LLM code is better than their code.

That’s depressing. For 80% of my coworkers their LLM code is horrible. Only the seniors seem to use it well and not just spit out garbage

I think that goes back to whether they are programmers vs engineers.

Engineers will focus on professionalism of the end product, even if they used AI to generate most of the product.

And I'm not going by "title", but by mindset. Most of my fellow engineers are not - they are just programmers - as in, they don't care about the non-coding part of the job at all.

Depends - if it is from a human I find I can trust it a lot more. If it is large blobs from LLMs I find it takes more effort. But it was just a guess at an average to give an estimate of the effort required. I’d hope they spent more than 2 mins on some more complex bits.

Are you genuinely confident in a framework project that lands 19kloc generated PRs in one go? I’d worry about hidden security footguns if nothing else and a lot of people use this for their apps. Thankfully I don't use it, but if I did I'd find this really troubling.

It also has security implications - if this is normalised in node.js it would be very easy to slip in deniable exploits into large prs. It is IMO almost impossible to properly review a PR that big for security and correctness.

It WOULD be nice if it only got used appropriately. But in 2026 its just one more metric to narrow down your profile for advertisers. Wouldn't it be convenient if you could just opt-out of tracking with a convenient API like the literal "do not track" header in browsers? It exists, but none of the people who SHOULD use it pay it any attention except as, ironically, another metric used to track people.

Not to mention that computing is a global thing, and in order for this to be useful it would definitely have to be providing more specific information than just a bool. Maybe chats require 13+, but pornography requires 18+. Maybe those ages are different based on location. All advertisers would need to do is ping the various different checks to get your actual or at least very approximate age.

This kind of thing is a slippery slope, and its ripe for abuse by doxxers, advertisers and big brother himself. Burn this with fire. I'm totally in agreement with the others that suggest stuff like this should b just get banned from getting introduced and reintroduced constantly trying to sneak it in as a rider or hidden provision. The people DON'T want it.

This was my thought as well. I'm surprised people are so easy to forgive and forget

Edit: a link[1] for those that aren't familiar

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

Looks like it only affected their consumer lines and not the ThinkPads.

Didn’t Dell and Sony have similar controversies?

I use Cookie AutoDelete on Firefox and it's great. It works with Firefox Container Tabs (groups have their own cookie settings), and let's you greylist (allow cookies from a particular domain pattern until the tab is closed) or whitelist (always allow from the domain pattern). I set it up for my kids computers also. The default is to blacklist (cookies aren't set), and I can whitelist for particular sites where they need say persistent login.

Definitely in 2026 kids should be getting tons of education in public school about how to safely browse the internet, both for personal data privacy and for safety against stalking, doxxing, grooming etc in the same way millenials were grilled about source checking internet resources like Wikipedia.

Also Firefox and Safari by default block 3p cookies everywhere, which is a significant step above Chrome

I'm curious what short-comings you found with Lutris is particular, because the examples you listed are actually not hidden from the users at all.

Not that there's anything wrong with tailor-made solutions or hacking for the sake of hacking, but it sounds like a fairly big undertaking and it might just be a skill-issue (no offense) if those items in particular were your only gripes.

You can look at the repository to see the differences. The troubleshooting abilities of the program are far superior to lutris already, My experience with lutris is you run the install script, attempt to run the game, it doesnt work and fails silently, the logs are empty, and even if you do capture the logs, the core issue often isn't clear.

I think you should do the work of making it apparent why someone should use this over lutris.

Frankly, most people have neither the bandwidth nor interest to research people’s projects and understand the value proposition. Speaking from bitter experience :)

All the best though :)

And it's hard to write what I am doing with the project than actually writing the code. But when the project goals become visible easily then people get interested in it.

You can find so many parallels to Trump's presidency and the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. I wish there were some in depth political analysis of the similarities because just as a layman, there are many.

- Both used Cambridge Analytica heavily in their elections and terms.

- Both appealed to very macho/misogynistic bases.

- Both made wildly inappropriate jokes and threats, leaving their Press Secretaries to explain it away. "Locker room" talk for Trump, and "Bisaya humor" for Duterte.

- Both did basically anything they wanted, basically with impunity (although Duterte is captured by ICC now iirc)

- Both accused of being a foreign asset. Trump->Russia, Duterte->China.

- Both want to rewrite/dispose of their constitutions.

- Both wanted to end elections or remove term limits.

- Duterte declared martial law, Trump wants to.

- Duterte did door to door searches (under guise of War on Drugs), Trump doing it under guise of Immigration enforcement.

There's probably more, but those are off the top of my head. If I had a tinfoil hat to wear, I would almost believe this is all still Cambridge or other big data backed planned behavior. I admitted don't know much about Project 2025, but just knowing a) they worked with big data in Cambridge, and b) there is actually goals planned that accommodate expected responses from congress etc make things highly suspicious.

I wish a political scientist/independent researcher would do the leg work and investigate the two presidencies, because all of it is just really scary and prophetic.

Say what you want about Bruno and Insomnia, but $50/year is pretty steep for the lowest tier of commercial use when there are more mature free options available.

5.1 (by way of LuaJIT) gets a lot of use, but to suggests no one uses the modern versions is just not true. Lua being an embedded language just takes the pressure away to upgrade. It's a feature, not a bug.