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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • May i suggest a technique for remembering the password?

    write it down

    but instead of writing down the password, write down questions that only you can reasonably answer. For example:

    • what was the name of the first girl i kissed?
    • where did i go to on summer camp?
    • which special event happened there?

    and the answer would be: “mary beach rodeo” or idk what. this way, you construct a password out of multiple words that each are an answer to a simple question.


  • Only encrypt the home partition, for the root partition it just unnecessarily slows down the system.

    Also, I think, there could be different approaches instead of encryption. AFAIK, android doesn’t use encryption underneath, but uses a semi-closed bootloader (which means, if you install a different OS, all user data gets wiped). I’m currently investigating the feasibility of such an approach in the long term.









  • The one true way to resolve this issue (IMO) is to pass a digital bill of rights, regulating these social media corporations, and forcing them to make their products safe for all ages.

    Nope it doesn’t work that way, it’s much more complicated than that.

    “regulating these social media corporations” how? how exactly are you gonna regulate them?

    no matter what you do, somebody complains. put good filters in to only show good news sites, and people complain it’s not “free speech”. Make free speech, and you get hate content.

    also, “safe for all ages” is bullshit, it would require digital age verification, like PornHub in Florida. Check out how that went.



  • striking a good recommendation algorithm is impossible.

    no matter what you do, somebody will complain. if you filter “good” news sources, some complain about it not being “free” enough. If you allow everybody to say what they say, you’re gonna end up with a lot of hate speech.

    TikTok for me has been this refreshing different media which wasn’t mostly about politics, but about private artists creating whatever they do.





  • yeah but there’s also a lot of people just seeing cooking as a chore and never really paying attention to it, therefore not learning much or anything at all.

    it takes patience and a bit of dedication to actually learn cooking in a reasonable way. otherwise you’re just following recipe.


  • oh come on

    people are in denial that their way of life - getting paid for intellectual output - is coming to an end. it’s not the case that AI just produces slop. surely it does but so do a lot of humans. you know all the memes about human workers having imposter syndrome - feeling as if they don’t even really know what they’re doing? AI only has to produce higher quality output than them. and it definitely can.

    the reason why people shit on AI so hard is because they’re afraid - afraid that AI will “out-compete” them. in that sense, you could also call it “jealous”, like a woman fears she’s replaced by another woman.

    people need to respect themselves and others enough to agree to survive - and thrive, even - in the absence of a productive output. in other words, only if you can allow your fellow humans a living income without work, you are truly in a position where you can live comfortably in the future.