I recently tried agentic coding for real. It cost $0.034 and finished in 3 minutes. It made two mistakes. In my personal human attempt, I took an hour, and made four mistakes.

Cheaper model services

I heard about GLM-5.2, and a lot of benchmarks are saying it's on …

A year ago, a Black man was arrested for theft. The evidence was crummy face-recognition coupled with a security guard's ID who had not seen the person, only a security tape.

A few months ago, some civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department for the wrongful …

I argue that VPNs are bad for the user, especially if the user is a dissenter from the status quo.

On the surface, CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) present a great way of speeding up the loading of websites.

Without a CDN, requests take longer for users that are far away network-wise, but not a lot longer if users are near the server (perhaps on the same continent). Here are some …

If you're an Android user, you've probably seen more and more "glitches" lately, where you get delayed notifications, events, or even alarms.

Updated 2019-11-18.

The GDPR is legally convenient, in case you are a private person, and want the illusion of control over data gathered from you.

However, when considering its actual impact, and looking at it from different perspectives, it can appear strange, and perhaps even scary.

Broad definitions

I had …