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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I’d argue being between proprietary platforms is keeping your options open, not being in purgatory. I wouldn’t try to synergize privacy with online payments at a tap IRL beyond Apple. Until there’s a like, seamless tap crypto-pay (which will never happen, Visa would NEVER allow its monopoly to break, they pay Apple Google search monopoly money to still go through them) your best bet to be least spied on while paying with a phone is Apple.




  • I worked with a guy in the 2000’s who was all “Why would you bother doing Linux WITHOUT compiling your own?” who was a Gentoo devotee, and he was fucking great, honestly top ten people I ever had under me for team work, despite being a total alcoholic who would pass out in chair, but he got it DONE, I was so pissed when they fired him… and I do think back then at least there were gains… Probably still are now depending on hardware… I’ve run Linux since the mid 90’s and have a Computer Science education and everything from back in the “You must compile your own LAMP stack” days and I have always found Gentoo too obscure to even try every time I try, and I have across three decades now. But I guess now that the Slackware+ of Arch is cool, it’s inevitable Gentoo will become a trend.








  • People who support Trump often say “I don’t see him as a weird sex guy” but if you’re not from the NY Metro area in the 80’s to mid 90’s, you have no idea how normalized pedophilia and near pedophilia was. Seinfeld openly dated a 17yo in the late 90’s even. One of my grammar school teachers was an open pedophile, and NO adults cared. The kids just all tried to avoid being the kid who caught his fancy the year you have him. They eventually did fire him much later in the late 90’s as the culture shifted, but this shit was tolerated to celebrated for at least like 16 years regionally.