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Cake day: March 9th, 2024

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  • Funny, we get more complaints about DuckDuckGo browser than anything else, and that’s one of the few we don’t test on. I know this because I make it a point to have someone from CS tell me about consistent pain points users are having. I wonder how many complaints about Firefox not working your customer service team is getting daily and you just don’t hear about it because they’ve been told to tell users “just say Firefox isn’t a supported browser and to try installing Chrome.”

    You should ask someone in CS. Whichever agent bullshits the least (not the manager) - you might learn something.

    Almost 3/10 people accessing your sites are using Firefox. All those “images not loading right or whatever” are probably blatant to them, making them think “wow, what an absolute shit website.”

    3 out of 10.





  • If everyone gets busted all at once (2022-2024 market takedowns is as close to that as it could come IMO) then everyone immediately stops using tor and starts using i2p or freenet or whatever system they may not have broken yet. That’s baaahd for business, said the wolf in sheep’s clothing.

    Although they did run a cp site for months before shutting it down, so they’re clearly not opposed to the long-game, especially if it involves national security (it does.)







  • Literal torture. There’s a reason LSD proved to be an ineffective truth serum… What’s going on inside the head is far worse than what could possibly go on outside the head.

    Always trip with someone with actual experience, kids. There are ways to escape a bad trip, so ask your trip-buddy how they plan to ease a trip that’s going south, and if they can’t tell you 5 things off the top of their head, they’re full of it. But the best way is to start small and ease into it. Once you’ve gauged the dose and purity, you can have a bigger trip next weekend.


  • Find a good girl that doesn’t mind. Mine doesn’t care at all, she has her interests and I have mine. I’ll sit there and listen to her 5 minute lectures on makeup and perfumes, and every once in a while I’ll tell her about a vulnerability or something cool I found, and I know she’s paying as much attention as I do about makeup, but at least I can understand the basics of makeup without years of experimentation and learning.

    True, it makes it harder to stay secure when people around you don’t care or don’t know how, but its still possible. Just have to set some solid boundaries sometimes.


  • Friendly reminder that Bluetooth has a larger network stack than Wi-Fi. Much more code, much larger available attack base. There have been many numerous Bluetooth vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution or theft of files.

    This is truly becoming a surveillance state, in no way that can be debated. That want to be able to access everyone’s innermost thoughts (texts, notes, recordings, calendars, contacts, photos, you get it) without any chance of someone being able to protect against it.

    Reminder that Google was the 2nd or 3rd company to commit to NSA’s PRISM program of feeding American’s data for future analysis.




  • It’s possible that it is a self-worth issue and lack of self-love. Overconfidence is a defence mechanism, and not being able to take compliments is a sign that you don’t truly, deep down, believe people are being honest about them.

    However it can be quite complex and let’s say you have trust issues… an example is, let’s say you didn’t get many real compliments and were bulled in school and every time you wore a ratty shirt or didn’t brush your hair, your bully ‘complemented’ it in front of others. Now you’re primed to distrust complements and believe on a subconscious level that they are malicious.

    Compliments are often used as a way to manipulate people, so if you’ve dealt with a manipulator before, now genuine comments may trigger you to have your guard up… not an easy place to be when trying to genuinely accept compliments.




  • Also if you don’t exercise and get good cardio in daily, anxiety and sleep will be issues by default. It’s crazy how sedentary some of us are. If I don’t exercise for a week, I get massive anxiety, am unreasonably tired during the day but can’t sleep well, and the next few days my pores are dripping sweat, until I get back on cardio track and go back to not sweating much.

    Cardio is as evolutionarily necessary and inbuilt for humans as pooping and sleeping, and – funny thing if you’ve experienced a panic attack before, you just feel like you have to run. It’s insane how much gunk is cleaned out of your largest bodily organ when you run. From pouring stinky sweat for a couple days to barely sweating. And the sleep, energy and mood quality difference is also insane.

    There are obviously other factors that can cause these issues, but if you don’t exercise and eat right, and you’re experiencing depression, anxiety, lack of energy, and sleep problems… Well, what’s the saying, “if you stink, try a shower before bleach injections.”