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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • You can’t. You either go into work and learn to solve complex problems or pivot to something else. For me it was the latter, I’m IT brainlet now, but every time I come back to brushing up on programming there’s like no middle ground with projects, I don’t have the time or really energy to commit to building a 3D video game engine in C or an OS, and learning pointer arithmetic for multiple iterators all just to make a palindrome checker CLI feels lame and building a clone of Spotify but in some new webdev thing or the week to some tutorial is hard to be excited about.





  • No? There’s a pretty good reason every criminal used telegram. I’ve never seen any attempts at combatting anonymity much less censorship.

    Likely TG got unbanned in Russia for cooperating with LEOs there, but while awful, that doesn’t really matter if you’re a westerner, even Ukrainian armed forces used it, and for the average substance enjoyer it was still much safer to use than any Five Eyes app due to its intentional highly decentralised complexity, and unlike Signal it actually works and is pleasant to use. Now they are straight up handing data over to British cops.







  • All those people are either masters at making use of little space (if you’ve ever seen electroboom’s set in that one LTT video yk tho he ain’t euro) or they’ve got a much bigger space (e.g. house, maybe even detached) than they’re letting on. There’s a good reason lots of tech YTers are from Texas.

    There’s also ofc some folks who just live drowning in garbage from various projects, but you won’t know about them.

    The maker spaces, and more specifically in my xp in London - hackspaces are cramped kindergartens