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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Samsung: buy device, we collect your data Apple: buy device, we collect your data Google: buy device, we collect your data Tesla: buy a car, we collect your data Uber: pay for delivery, we collect your data Amazon: pay for subscription, buy items, sell items, we collect your data. Netflix: literally the only way to interact with us is to pay a subscription, we collect your data. YouTube: pay more than every other streaming service to get music, video and shorts with no ads, we are still collecting your data.

    “If it’s free, you’re the product” has never been and will never be true. You’re the product so long as advertising exists, paying for shit doesn’t change a thing. They don’t care you bought it once because they want you to buy again and again and only from them. It’s a statement to make people think they deserve the treatment they’re getting and its gaslighting.


  • Little confused by the second link. It’s not about Draiman, its just one of the band members saying assassinating trump wouldnt do the US any favours (I somewhat agree for different reasons, killing him would have started civil war 2 most likely).

    In case you missed it/didn’t think of it, there’s a rather notorious tweet about student loans (unless he deleted it) that rubbed me the wrong way so I’d use that instead personally. He basically said “you took out a loan, pay it back” which ignores all the context for those who got one.

    Plus there’s the fact their lyrics in the last album seem very “can’t we all just get along” and tends to trivialise many of the issues in the US right now. It’s this idea of “if we all just talked we’d see we have common ground” bullshit like no one has had a real conversation in the last 25 years cos they’re all on their phones etc.


  • I retook 6 classes and finished 2 years late. I’m regarded by my colleagues as a good person to work with and they think I’m good at what I do.

    Don’t let school define you, some people excel, others don’t. Also, working for money is completely different than intrinsically motivating yourself to complete assignments.

    I had mental health issues that I probably should have dealt with. If you feel like you’re struggling, talk to a counsellor or a therapist, mostly because the college or uni has to listen when they say you’re struggling. Also because they can look without judgement and tell you what you might be doing wrong with motivation and study habits. For me, I needed someone to remind me I mattered even if I didn’t do well. That’s just my 2c worth.





  • There are definitely some VPN providers to worry about.

    VPNs are a security tool but they don’t protect people as much as they think. They hide DNS traffic your ISP would have received, so that your ISP can’t tell everyone which cuckold or affair site you access (except you probably forgot to turn the VPN on one time or another so…)

    Your ISP can still see IP addresses you connect to, they forward all your traffic [I need to proof read before I press post - this is just misinformation]. Good opsec is a nightmare. Ad blocking does more for less cost than getting a VPN will ever do (except for certain human rights circumstances but I’d wager they’re actually going to be careful).

    My personal tip is use DNS over HTTPS/TLS where possible, and don’t use Cloudflare or Google. Add an ad blocker and it’s far easier to setup and way more cost effective than VPN.






  • I actually have a person in my life complain about this shit with the last Bond movie (I havent watched it, i just heard complaining). Oh and Into the Spiderverse, he disliked spiderman being non-white - even though Peter Parker is in that fucking film. He also uses the phrase woke all the time.

    I really don’t value his opinions on these sorts of issues and neither should anyone. He’s got so little in his life and these stories are a powerful escape from the shit he isn’t dealing with. I won’t go into it, not my circus etc.

    Basically, he likes to imagine himself as Luke Skywalker and he can’t imagine himself as Rey so she’s woke and bad. It’s a boring way of consuming media and he’s an idiot. He says there’s an agenda but can self identify the agenda is maybe letting the women and coloured people be on screen sometimes. However, they do not look like him so they are bad and the agenda is bad.

    They’re not worth listening to.


  • Yeah look that was the front page of the repo talking about how it has C/C++ and Fortran code, sorry for not reading the docs and finding out that yes they still use C/C++ and Fortran code in the form of OpenBLAS which is a dependency… f2py is just a method of doing the following:

    F2PY facilitates creating/building native Python C/API extension modules that make it possible

    • to call Fortran 77/90/95 external subroutines and >Fortran 90/95 module subroutines as well as C functions;

    • to access Fortran 77 COMMON blocks and Fortran 90/95 module data, including allocatable arrays

    from Python.

    Correct me if I’m wrong here but if you’re implementing an api for one programming language to talk to another then that means you have 2 programm-

    I wake up as a lizard. The meaning of kernels, subroutines and programming languages is already fading. I realise the rock I am lying on is slightly in a shadow and move into the sun. Might eat a bug later…



  • I think capitalism with a healthy mix of socialism can benefit quite a lot of people. I’m never going to say Australia is perfect, we have spineless government officials that work against our interests to help rich fucks and a considerable problem with how the original owners of our country are still treated, but I like to use my country as an example cos Americans like to hate on Europe for being too different.

    I get charged $30 to see a doctor (this could be considered expensive and our government is aiming to fix this, and there are places you can go for free) thanks to taxes. People actually get health insurance claims paid out because we have laws and oversight of the insurance companies.

    I worked a shit job in a factory putting boxes onto a palette for 8 hours a day, and I got paid $28 an hour to do that with legally mandated break times. That was above minimum wage by like $1.50 or something. We have “awards” (a term I don’t entirely understand tbh) and agreements with the governments that force us to earn a decent wage, and we constantly argue about it being put up. It also gets raised when enough of us kick up a stink. I worked there during Uni, and the business was required to be flexible with my hours. They couldn’t fire me if I said no to coming in because I could take that to a federally funded legal body who would sue them for me.

    Not a single person here is worried about going broke from needing an ambulance or life saving surgery. We have a voting system where the whole country has to rock up to the polls, or they get fined, and voting day is a Saturday. We pay people… almost enough, there’s still issues including inequality issues, but it’s a shit ton more than $7.50 an hour.

    You lot have government officials that consistently let you down and get distracted by the way your businesses are owned. Show up to vote. Vote in your interests. Riot when anticorruption investigations get defunded or impeded. Public servants work for you, make them feel that way. Call them and remind them of that.

    Sorry for ranting but I just get so frustrated by all the talk of tearing the system down and rebuilding. Force the people you voted in to do the right thing, or make them wish they had by ending their careers.