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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • when life gives you restrictive compilers, don’t request permission from them! make life take the compilers back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn restrictive compilers, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give BigDanishGuy restrictive compilers! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the compilers! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible compiler that burns your house down!



  • that’s not that same security. an observer will still know that you are connecting over HTTPS to a particular doman/IP, maybe they can also deduce that you are using mTLS, and all your other traffic is not protected by it at all. all the while with wireguard, they can see that it’s wireguard traffic, and where it goes, but anything inside is secret, plus if an app uses unencrypted traffic for some reason (smb, dns, custom and special protocols), wireguard will hide and protect that too.









  • Here in Germany parties actively ran on the promise of raising and fixing the pension levels in an already unsustainable system. Alongside other gifts to certain voter bases. The one left out (I assume partially because they are not able to vote): The youth.

    so they were lying, except to the youth, because to them they didn’t have a message. that’s a positive thing to me.

    But you are right that they might influence smaller changes.

    part of my worries is this, but rather how will this affect all of them, when sociopathic people will start targeting them with even more brainwashing/reeducation content.

    To take one of your examples i could see that for something like the smartphone ban. But would that be so bad?

    what do you mean? the banning the school-level banning of it? the problem is not smartphones themselves, but what they can do.
    playing games and scrolling social media on lessons. taking pictures of your peers against their will, like when they get humiliated. using the infra blaster to fuck with classroom equipment. all of these were happening in my class, just a few years ago. unless your solution is mandating school-issued spyware on every phone, which I don’t support, the only solution is to ban them in one way or another. possibly only on lessons. and then somehow solve the problem of stolen phones, when someone knowingly took away a different phone at the end of lesson.








  • What I would add that got pointed out to me today is, that if we have a general election every 5 years, someone who turns 18 just after an election potentially may not be able to vote for the first time untill they almost 23.

    I agree that’s unfortunate, the first vote I was eligible for was at 21. It’s not ideal. I think a better solution would be to have more (meaningful) votes (not necessarily with shorther terms)

    Again, my opinion is that being able to vote for the first time between 16-20 sounds a lot better than voting for the first time between 18-22.

    I’m not sure. I would rather just increase the age limit to 20, and implement a fix to have more times you can vote.