182923846 comment Comment Well, until the federal bill passes, anyhow (Score 2) 29 by Opyros on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:10PM (#66112358) Attached to: Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill https://itsfoss.com/news/os-level-age-verification-across-us/
181722944 comment Comment Re: Not "flaunting" (Score 1) 93 by Opyros on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:05PM (#66095966) Attached to: Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI Well, maybe the attackers are also flautists.
181087264 comment Comment Re:Why ban Brazil? (Score 1) 69 by Opyros on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:30PM (#66056442) Attached to: GrapheneOS Refuses to Comply with Age-Verification Laws According to this, MidnightBSD is only temporarily banning use in those jurisdictions while preparing some sort of daemon to comply with the new laws.
180948022 comment Comment Re:This isn't new. Ideas for this have been around (Score 1) 80 by Opyros on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:06PM (#66033824) Attached to: Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror The seventies? Actually, Hermann Oberth originated the idea in 1923.
180757272 comment Comment Re:ANOTHER "tipping point"? (Score 1) 71 by Opyros on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:48PM (#65976148) Attached to: Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors? No, not all. Some of them write about "inflection points."
180641262 comment Comment Food for humans, too (Score 1) 88 by Opyros on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:17PM (#65943304) Attached to: Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready' Apparently bamboo has some health benefits when eaten.
180498119 comment Comment Already available for download (Score 2) 36 by Opyros on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:52PM (#65895355) Attached to: Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'I Got Rhythm' Into the Commons Some of the books can be downloaded from here.
180448023 comment Comment Re:Paper Dictionaries Are Done (Score 3, Informative) 42 by Opyros on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:09PM (#65878803) Attached to: Is the Dictionary Done For? https://www.onelook.com/ is what I use; it's a search engine for online dictionaries.
180100583 comment Comment Re: I see one problem (Score 1) 54 by Opyros on Sunday November 16, 2025 @10:10PM (#65799479) Attached to: Could Firefox Be the Browser That Protects the Privacy of AI Users? Newbie! I've been using it since it was called Phoenix!
179415316 comment Comment Iron harvest (Score 1) 69 by Opyros on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:22PM (#65673474) Attached to: 6,000 Evacuated During Defusing of American WWII Bomb Found Buried in Hong Kong This was from WWII; however, there are still some unexploded bombs left over from WWI, and they are still dangerous.
178629228 comment Comment By now everyone has heard (Score 1) 56 by Opyros on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:08PM (#65578514) Attached to: Strange Wild Pigs in California - What Turned Their Flesh Blue? that there is no blue food.
178468156 comment Comment Re: First! (Score 1) 71 by Opyros on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:09PM (#65545488) Attached to: DNS Security is Important But DNSSEC May Be a Failed Experiment FWIW, I was here in the 90s but I didn't make an account for many years.
178458054 comment Comment "common metal" (Score 1) 81 by Opyros on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:04PM (#65542996) Attached to: Physicists Blow Up Gold With Giant Lasers, Accidentally Disprove Renowned Physics Model Gold is a common metal?
178458028 comment Comment from 7th century BC to 8th century BC? (Score 1) 33 by Opyros on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:01PM (#65542982) Attached to: Google Develops AI Tool That Fills Missing Words In Roman Inscriptions I assume this is supposed to be "from 7th century BC to 8th century AD."
177923065 comment Comment Re:You could not make this up (Score 2) 55 by Opyros on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:15PM (#65426005) Attached to: AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots Although it turns out the reference was not to actual bananas, just saying.