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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.

    Oh the irony. You clearly don’t work with any sort of end user.

    For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist. They aren’t searching past a basic Google of the issue showing them step by step instructions of how to use the GUI to fix the problem. If there is no way to do so in the GUI, it’s not getting fixed by them, they’ll take it to the Geek Squad if they even decide to fix it at all. They’re must more likely to just ignore an issue. In this case, just removing the USB drive and complaining about something being corrupt later on. The idea of the terminal scares the average person.

    Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does Well that’s simply wrong. winget upgrade --all I just upgraded 44 apps I definitely didn’t install via winget, they were all installed via individually downloaded installers at some point in the past, but all upgrade with a single package manager command in a terminal. Certainly seems similar to me. It may not be everything, but it’s certainly the majority of things on this system other than the games.




  • There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.

    One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.










  • I count that in the sold category. Because they just get more loans to pay off the previous ones, or default and the bank just takes the shares and does it again because what the loaned is less than the share value. All the while avoiding income and capital gains taxes.

    It’s why boycotts and cancelling subscriptions actually do work when done in large enough numbers. Their money can disappear very quickly if shareholders get spooked.

    It’s also why Tesla isn’t being affected as much now despite Elon pulling the mask off and going full Nazi, resulting in massive sales drops. Years and years of short sellers and complicit media trying to tank the brand, largely funded and promoted by things like entrenched oil interests and competing car brands have trained many shareholders to ignore a lot.



  • I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault.

    I’d say the exact opposite. The vote was on April 28th, she mailed her ballot on April 5th and it was returned to her on May 2nd.

    She mailed her ballot in 23 days ahead of time. That is more than enough time to ensure your vote will be counted. There’s zero reason to expect your ballot to not be received and counted using the pre-printed label or for it be returned to you more than 3 weeks later.

    This isn’t a case of someone sending it a day or two before and standard processing taking it past a deadline.