I've been shopping at Microcenter in Chicago since I was a kid. I bought my last 3 computers there.

I couldn't believe upon moving to the bay in the aughts that there was nowhere to buy a decent computer. I'm glad they finally have a place to buy a computer out there.

I was going to suggest turning friendster.com into a fullstack atproto-based app. Maybe just fork Bluesky's social app, as others are doing, and rebrand it as Friendster.

I don't understand how this works.

If they aren't storing the iris scans, then how can this be used to login with your iris scan?

Instead of storing plaintext passwords, most companies store a hash of that password, essentially applying a one-way transformation to it and saving the result of that. I don’t have to know your password, I can just apply the hash algorithm to whatever you enter in the input and if that matches, we’re golden.

No reason you couldn’t apply the same philosophy to biometric data.

Yes, I agree on passwords since the characters are the same every time.

Does every iris scan produce the same hash though?

Didn’t say literally the same thing. Obviously it would be more complex. but I’d assume a fair amount of consistency between scans. How else would you compare at all?

Does your iris change between scans? I assume not.

This feels like a flippant response. The question you responded to was ‘would the hash of the iris would be the same?’ It isn’t as if you’ll get an identical image of the iris every time, and hashes tend to behave chaotically for even slightly different values. If we compare this to something like password salting and hashing, it isn’t clear how we can maintain the constant salted hash value if we swap the password for a digital representation of a person’s iris.

Does it need to be exactly the same? I assume it's a perceptual hash with a liveness check.

It's mostly younger people

Maybe there's a way to offset this risk by testing the speed of connections?

How does peer discovery work? Where do the region buckets live?

Latency is considered in routing.

Every router announces itself on the network. Routers can optionally publish their IANA IP addresses.

Buckets live on the routers themselves.

yah it's good for logging into computers or accessing servers behind NAT. It's kinda an antidote to this world that's still hooked on ipv4 like it's 1992 or whatever.

There's a debate about new BSG being better than old BSG?

I actually love the original BSG. And the new one started out strong but the writers clearly didn't have a plan for where they wanted things to go despite the opening credits insisting the Cylons have a plan.

Agreed. Not to mention the original BSG was strangled in its crib for costing too much. Something a production in the aughts didn't have to worry much about.

I posit:

For every topic of A vs B where A and B are related in some way, no matter how small, there exists an argument C where two people take increasingly opposed positions about which is better.

The article mentions a decline in the number of regions Deno Deploy has in production. It isn't criticizing the runtime, but the confusion is understandable since they have similar product names.

I wonder if there's a reason why there's a decline that the Deno people could weigh in on? Perhaps it's not a money issue, but some other reason why they decided to scale back the number of regions.

This comment is silly and not a great critique of Star Trek economics.

To hack Star Trek imagine the replicator system as a transport pad and then think about who controls the transporters. Next, imagine the phaser system as a transporter pad. Now you have a critique.

Trystero can do this: https://github.com/dmotz/trystero?tab=readme-ov-file#audio-a...

You'd need to make a UI for it