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Cake day: July 24th, 2024

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  • I am so grateful for already having been paranoid about sharing anything identifying about me starting 15+ years ago.

    I never uploaded a picture of myself. Never used my real name anywhere. I used different nicks for different branches of the Internet. A plethora of different email addresses etc.

    People thought I was being overly careful and I probably missed a lot of things due to not using Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat but I can’t say I regretted it at any point.




  • A lot of people I know regularly use screen sharing through discord or opentalk. Both for work/productivity and while gaming (watching each other, helping, sharing what people are up to etc).

    To get people to switch it sadly should support all features: text, voice, video and sending files/images/gifs/videos.

    It’s tough.


  • I just bought an Innioasia Y1, which is an iPod classic clone for $50.

    Put an unofficial Rockbox port on it and installed a 512gb micro SD card. Ignoring the mediocre DAC and comparatively unresponsive click wheel it’s pretty good. I finally have my entire music library with me again and look at my phone less often (both of which were goals of getting an mp3 player again).

    I was big into mp3 players 15-20 years ago and used Rockbox on all of them so this is really nice especially at the price point.

    PS: They are working on a Y2 that improves upon a lot of things. The Y1 was marketed as a kids device but is awesome with Rockbox on it and went viral the past few months.



  • I would not trust any company/website to properly encrypt any important messages in the first place so I don’t care whether they add a backdoor (and I’ve never had a Twitter account anyway).

    …but it sounds like a really shitty development/release process to me. Why would you disable something while whatever is to come in its place is not ready yet?

    Why not do the development first and then migrate when it’s actually ready lol