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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • I tried to get everyone on Signal, and I personally donate £5 monthly to Signal, but everybody left. I’m forced to be 100% WhatsApp, because that’s what society uses.

    I’m somewhat annoyed that the EU offered Signal the chance of becoming relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open itself up and offer interoperability with other chat apps, while still maintaining proper E2EE using the Signal protocol, and Signal said nah.

    E: oh, and I don’t manage to play much on my PC these days (my gaming time these days is more “oh, I have 20 minutes free, I’ll play on my steam deck while chilling on the couch for a bit!”), but on the once in a blue moon occasion I do, I’ll open up Discord, because good look trying to get people to use anything else.









  • Yep.

    Something tells me that Google won’t be turning down fast food companies that want to advertise with them, or reducing recommendations of channels that show off/review fast food a lot.

    Maybe I’m being cynical, but this seems more like a “let’s get some good headlines” ploy than something that will seriously help anybody.

    I don’t know what the best course is, but screwing over channels that promote exercise and healthy living doesn’t sound like a good option to me. Even if they can exacerbate some people’s perceived body issues.




  • It just strikes me as yet another fuck you to the poorer people. They don’t get to go on holiday, but the wealthier do.

    Look at prices during the school summer holidays - it is usually 2-4x higher. Poorer families can’t afford that. I think it’s beneficial for families to be able to occasionally have some respite from work/school, and do things they wouldn’t usually do.

    The least they could do is stagger the school holidays so that you don’t have 90% of the UK taking them all at once.

    There’s an unbelievable amount of class warfare in this country.