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Is it accurate to say this is something like long polling except you continue to hold the connection open for subsequent updates? Does this mean a server potentially needs to hold …

It looks like this is a project for nicer signed attestations. But it doesn't seem very opinionated about: 1. What is the attester (signer) attesting to, exactly? This URL example …

I had an interesting conversation with an coworker recently - If you give an agent a budget of $500 to buy a flight, and the airline knows this and bumps your price to $499 even th…

That's a shame, I wonder where he draws the line. While herding to the majority of latest Chrome makes his life easier, there really is a very long tail of real users who are not t…

The vast majority of Googlebot user agents are lying. Real Googlebot is pretty well behaved in my experience. You should use reverse DNS or IP lists to check: https://developers.go…

Here's another similar project: https://writetrack.dev/ There's plenty of microbehavioral analysis we can do that is initially effective but will get bypassed (with GANs being the …

I've used Merlin for a while and I'm still impressed by Merlin's sound identification, it continues to inspire me. I wrote about it last year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-bi…

AWS saw Anthropic billing a guy for $16 million on zero usage and thought, why stop at the millions? https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320266/20260712/anthropic...

TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....

Oh yeah, just like all cryptography is just a way for bad people to hide their criminal activity. I'd read the confidential computing post! (used to work in this space myself)

He's right up there with Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) and Nolen Royalty (eieio.games) for me. I recently got to interview Nolen on keeping the internet fun and creative for my blog: htt…

The wash sale rule (in the US) makes it a lot harder to pull this off.

That makes a lot of sense! I recently interviewed several great creators on this exact topic and they all echoed similar ideas - although it's easy to fear that someone else has do…

Magnet app (for window splitting) is usually one of my first installs. I think I paid like $7 for it years ago and it's well worth it.