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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • When I remember back to the early 80s, me a single digit aged human with my first Commodore 64 and a cassette tape drive, to being a high school aged kid and helping my buddies install their extended memory set chip by chip to get them to 1mb of ram, to way in the future where I type this comment on a mobile phone touch screen capable of unfathomable high resolution graphics and speed is still a surreal feeling.

    I grew up and grew old with computers and it’s wild to imagine a life without and a world without them nearly 50 years later.





  • are they wrong though? let’s say in this hypothetical situation, i have never ever had a social media account. Checkmate privacy invaders!

    except wait, i have family, like my mother, who have my name and phone number saved in their phone, probably my birthday and address too if they fill out the contact card completely, which they’ve given permission to facebook to access to “find other friends”, and boom, now i have an entry in a data tracking database without ever opting in myself (i know this is a core privacy argument, not arguing that).

    so how is the average person wrong in the “they already have it anyway” camp?





  • I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.

    Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.