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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I don’t think a content provider should be allowed to have more than 5-10% of their content be advertisements.

    Website screen space, newspapers, tv channels, etc

    Instagram shouldn’t have more than 1-2 sponsored post for every 20 posts. At the moment it seems closer to 10.

    An hour long TV slot shouldn’t have more than 3-6 minutes of advertisement. At the moment it’s closer to 20-30.


  • Windows has had a bug that’s driven me mad since before Windows 10 and it doesn’t seem they have any intentention to fix it.

    When I try to rename files, I always click somewhere in the text of the name or highlight a specific portion, and then 90% of the time RIGHT before I start typing to add or change the name, it randomly highlights the entire thing so the whole text gets replaced instead of the one section I wanted to change.

    INFURIATING and it’s been years that it’s happened, between two different versions of Windows!

    There’s also another 2 or 3 other bugs that are just as infuriating but I don’t imagine will ever be fixed or changed because why the fuck would microsoft care.



  • How unique do passwords have to be in order to be considered safe? If they follow a pattern are they still safe or do these bots try alterations to the leaked passwords as well?

    Like if your password to Reddit was reddit1234 and your password to Google was google1234, if the Reddit password leaked is your Google one still okay?

    Probably not if it’s a human but bots shouldn’t be able to figure that out ya?







  • I just phoned a business today that ended up with an “AI receptionist” when they didn’t answer the phone.

    They wanted to take my name down, asked who I was leaving a message for, and then recorded the message…

    My god what a painful process that was. It was absolutely useless. Firstly it got my name wrong, and then the name of the person I was leaving the message for wrong. No “Janet” my name is not Don it’s John, and no I’m not leaving a message for Kim Its for Kam. And then it needs to repeat your entire message back to you in order to make sure it didn’t fuck it up which amazingly the message was probably 95% okay but it was a giant waste of my time when a FUCKIN VOICEMAIL WOULD HAVE SUFFICED








  • I really dislike that they keep attributing this to climate change.

    Northern Canada has a fuckton of mosquitos, it wasn’t the cold weather keeping them away. Greenland also has mosquitos and it’s north of Iceland.

    edit: downvotes why? I literally work in a field directly dealing with mosquitos and have been to the Arctic circle and caught mosquitos to be identified (Culiseta alaskaensis by the way)

    I’m not denying climate change is a thing. I just dislike that people attribute this to a warming climate with absolutely no evidence when it is easily countered.