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Cake day: June 5th, 2025

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  • But why should your food bank or church allow you to have seconds when there are other food banks and churches out there that ran out early before serving everyone? Why should you get a food bank at all when there are places that have none?!

    This logic can always be applied to any situation because there are always worse situations to be found. You’re not solving anything by tearing down the guy who now earns enough to buy a meal or two at a restaurant in comparison because he’s not far off from your own situation. Attack the guy who buys the $10,000 lunch and doesn’t even finish it. They’re the tiny minority that have the biggest impact on the rest of us.





  • It’s even included in the article:

    The letter from ​U.S. lawmakers to the Pentagon said that, given what military officials know about the trade in location data, ​they should have acted ⁠faster to protect their personnel, for example by disabling the unique advertising ID attached to military-issued devices, automatically turning off location sharing on smartphones in the field, and steering staff away from Google’s Chrome web browser toward more privacy-focused alternatives.

    One of the letter’s cosigners was U.S. Representative Pat Harrigan, a North Carolina Republican who was formerly ⁠a U.S. Army ​Special Forces officer. Harrigan said that browsers like Chrome “are built from the ground up to ​collect and share user data” and that every day they remain on government-issued devices “is another day we are handing our adversaries a weapon against our own troops.”

    And what about the rest of the population?













  • I think i paid $75 or $90 probably a decade ago or more now and think it was worth it, and still use it, but $750 is just nuts. At this price, they clearly don’t want anyone actually buying it but without having to face the backlash of outright removing the option altogether. I would imagine one of their next steps will be to remove or restrict people like me who bought it long ago. We’ll probably get locked to a specific version that comes out right before some major update that fixes long held issues that people have complained about for years.

    I would switch to Jellyfin but Plex makes sharing secure and easy and it is full of great features for the price I paid long ago. I also have a lifetime pass with Emby that I bought during a dark period of Plex but they also went closed source (which spawned Jellyfin into existence) and always felt much less refined than Plex in most areas.