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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • While starting to actively block casting. Because you know, going to a vacation home and logging into a foreign device is a million times safer than just plugging in your own Chromecast.

    Forcing people to buy smart TVs so they can watch your content ( or enable the smart function so they might get bombarded with ads ) is great customer service.

    Just like telling everybody to share accounts with friends and family and then doing a 180 and complain that you’re losing money over this and we should pay more.

    I have a hunch that 2026 will be the year off “piracy is skyrocketing once again and we have no idea why”.



  • Personally? No I’ve never bought a cert before. Given there’s free alternatives and it’s a homelab it doesn’t make sense. Otherwise I’ve used them on AWS, where ACM also just provides them for free.

    What you’re saying is that certificate providers will still charge you and provide certificates for a year, but just provide you with N certificates to span that year?

    E.g. if the duration is 45 days then they will give you 365/45 certificates ?











  • I don’t fully agree. Mails from companies ( password resets, ads, … ) aren’t necessarily passing by Google/m$ servers. So you’ve got that privacy. If you use an aliasing service ( which they also seem to offer ) then they can’t tie it directly to the same person/email.

    So there definitely is some privacy gain, though if you’re emailing myfriend@gmail.com and mypartner@outlook.com, the whole conversation is available to that bigtech firm as the email will be sent in plaintext.

    I’d say it’s a step in the right direction.

    I don’t know atomic mail, so I can’t vouch for them. I’m also not able to do proper research on it right now. So maybe somebody else can pitch in on that part.






  • The hand strikes me as odd. I’m also not entirely sure if it’s actually able to bend that far comfortably while holding a sign. But the picture is also blurry around her hand. So it’s hard to make out and I could be wrong. It feels like something is off though, which is a feeling I rarely get with pictures unless they’re deliberately trying some optical illusion or are obviously fabricated.

    She’s quite small. It looks like the door is 2-3x her height. It could just be a really tall door I guess .

    Edit: looked at the picture again and it feels like she’d be the height of the doorknob if she was standing in front of it.