That's hilarious, I didn't realize you couldn't turn it off. I just tried disabling all the recommendation options and it still shows the category, except now instead of recommended items, it says "to show your recent files and apps, turn them on in Settings."

This sort of thing used to bother me back when I took Windows seriously.

Yeah, it’s the solvents used for cleaning the chambers and parts. Very nasty stuff, and it’s probably the biggest concern for this type of facility anywhere, not just in California.

The stuff my dad used for cleaning down beryllium copper sheets that then had silicon, gold, and nichrome deposited onto them to make tiny medical pressure sensors was generally various stages of xylene, amyl acetate, freon, and - on one notable occasion when a shipment of the sheet stock came heavily contaminated with tractor oil - plain ordinary petrol.

This was back in the 80s.

You are very much Not Allowed To Do That Now.

I was trying to follow a piece of older equipment's cleaning procedures to the letter, but once I hit "flush with freon" I decided to go off-book.

Some 30-odd years later (more in fact, it's been over 30 years since he died) I can still smell the workshop.

That and the lathe oil in the machine shop where they made various mechanical components, too.

Where is it implemented that way?

In the proposal from the European Union, and in the implementation in Denmark.

Huh, interesting. Do you know if the government sees the identity of the company and the person being verified?

[edit] I did a little reading and it sounds like the company does not query the government with your ID. You get the cryptographic ID from the government, and present it to a company who is able to verify its validity directly. My source is mostly this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

If you're technically inclined I suggest you look at the Technical documentation for the implementation we're rolling out in denmark (It's in english): https://digst.dk/media/5gybwsaq/implementing-age-verificatio...

Awesome, thanks for the link.

Are you sure about skill floor? I've only ever heard it used to describe the skill required to get into something, and skill ceiling describes the highest level of mastery. I've never heard your interpretation, and it doesn't make sense to me.

Yes, I am very sure. And it isn't that difficult to understand, it is skill input graphed against effectiveness output. A higher floor just means that with 1 skill, you are guaranteed at least X (say, 20) effectiveness output.

https://imgur.com/tOHltkx

The confusion comes from people using "skill floor" for "learning curve" instead of "effectiveness".

But this is a thing where definitions have shifted over time. Like jealousy. People use "jealousy" when they really mean "envy", but correcting someone on it will usually just get you scorn and ridicule, because like I mentioned, language is fluid.

If the skill floor is high and therefore "effectiveness" is the same for a wide range of skill levels, isn't that the same as having a high barrier to entry? It seems that any activity or game where it takes a lot of skill before you can differentiate yourself from other players would be described that way.

No, a high skill floor is the opposite. It means that anyone can pick up the thing and immediately do decently.

To put it simply, think assault rifle vs sniper rifle. Anyone can use the AR and spray and pray and do pretty okay. You can't do that with the sniper rifle. So the AR has a high skill floor (minimum effectiveness) whereas the sniper rifle has a low skill floor (low minimum effectiveness). But the AR has a low skill ceiling too a point where you can put in endless amounts of skill and see no improvement in effectiveness. The sniper being an infinite range OHKO can scale to the end given aim skill and map knowledge.

Another example would be Reinhardt in Overwatch. You can tell a noob to "look in that direction and deploy shield" and they will contribute to the team. You can't put a noob on Widowmaker and have them contribute (as) significantly.

I've also never heard that use of "skill floor" before. The "floor/ceiling" descriptors imply min/max constraints.

They're talking about output consuming from the pool of tokens allowed by the subscription plan.

If you enjoy that sort of thing, check out this guy's videos. Lots of trace repairs (including below the surface), pad replacements, etc. Quite impressive to see it done.

https://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair

That's what I was expecting, too. Quite an interesting story regardless.

> He made a social network for bots, FFS.

Matt Schlicht made Moltbook, not Peter Steinberger.

Well, you got me. That changes everything.

> I realize it makes you uncomfortable

I think you're misunderstanding or misrepresenting them. The fight to have the most jaded or pessimistic take, the hottest flame, the spiciest rant, it's all so predictable and it's just a bunch of the same people saying the same things and agreeing with each other for the nth time. It brings nothing new to the table, and the posts that actually respond to the new information get drowned out or worse downvoted for insufficient vitriol.

Perhaps–it’s hard to tell from a single sentence–but I would recommend reading more than the first comment of that thread. The person at the top exaggerated how much it’s not talking about the service or competing options, and the people talking about Facebook are raising what is a reasonable point about privacy and data mining.

How?

I think you’re imagining that these hypocrites exist.