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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • Christmas 1972 saw heavy bombing raids carried out over the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi by American B-52 bombers. All over the world, thousands of people took to the streets in protest. The man who ordered the bombing was at the same time spearheading cease-fire negotiations. The armistice took effect in January 1973, and the same autumn Henry Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize together with his counterpart Le Duc Tho. The latter refused to accept the Prize, and for the first time in the history of the Peace Prize two members left the Nobel Committee in protest.

    not sure that napalming babies is a historically accurate telling of the events. But uh, satire predicts reality i suppose.



  • because markdown is a mess.

    There are like 5 standard implementations, though technically commonmark is the most widely utilized, and like a billion other ones outside of it.

    Zero implementations of commonmark are even similar to each other.

    I mean we’re talking about web devs here, they aren’t exactly the brightest of the bunch, or well, any bunch.


  • the trick here is balancing between liquid assets, physical assets you could sell (cars, things, another house maybe) and investments into the stock market, where you can still beat your inflation handily. It requires more money overall, but you pull out more money long term as well. And if you play your cards right, you get minimum risk aversion. While still managing to put yourself in an economically sound place.








  • when you interact with something on such a deep level, for me i’m a linux enthusiast and computer hardware nerd. I know quite a bit about computers, networking, operating systems and malware. These things are just second nature.

    Basically all implementations of these things in movies, shows or generally any media at all, is pretty inaccurate, unless it’s not the direct focal point, in which case it’s “accurate enough” because it literally doesn’t matter and could be some obscure implementation of something.

    It’s like if you hired someone, who doesn’t know anything about that particular job position, to do that particular job (because that’s literally what happens more of the time) they just pay someone to “make it happen” and it does, and it’s often not very accurate.

    When it does happen accurately, thank god they hired some weird grey beard with archaic knowledge on unix and historically relevant hardware setups, because holy shit does it add SO much to the media.