I used to incredibly close. We could very comfortably — I’d almost say like friends except the fact they did actually parent and never allowed us to walk all over them.

It’s kind of sad now, I don’t talk to my parents often anymore. We live a few states apart.

My wife I walked around our area in Los Angeles this year and many areas were completely full of trick or treating. Strangely though some of the most expensive neighborhoods had zero Halloween decorations and no activity.

I know Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish (and used to play around in Esperanto). I always loved learning languages but it wasn’t until later in life living in Los Angeles and speaking/hearing Spanish daily and then traveling to Mexico with my wife (who’s from there) that I really started feeling the benefits.

Knowing another language really opens doors in so many ways even if sometimes it’s only in small “insignificant” ways.

The first time I felt California was home was walking into a convenience store and being greeted in Spanish and carrying on the conversation like it was nothing.

Traveling to Mexico and being able to converse and learn all about another culture while being completely immersed in it is a powerful experience.

I don’t feel superior or better than others but when I talk to my monolingual friends and family back home I do feel a bit sad that they can’t understand or take part in some of those experiences.

Okay Google-based LLM

If you see me in public I’m usually chaining a bunch of tunnels together in some odd way to get around the poorly configured WiFi and actually secure my traffic.

Most everything I eat honestly (vegan btw) but red lentil pasta is a great way to clear yourself out.

If I remember correctly it’s third tone so writing it as Loong actually makes sense in my head.

As an American the only time I’ve ever seen it is when I’m on my Swiss VPN

I mean, blocking all of YouTube blocks all the shorts and it also blocks their disgusting tracking spyware littered across the web (not just Google properties).

It’s worth it.

I block all their domains using my DNS server and won’t ever be tracked by them again.

But what about the small blogger, the local restaurant, or the indie developer? For them, it’s another technical and legal headache, forcing them to install clunky, site-slowing plugins just to avoid a potential lawsuit.

As a small time developer, just no. Why would I be installing spyware on my small websites and importing a ton of third-party shit instead of doing things the right way from the beginning? Imagine tracking people to the extreme that you’ve legally got to resort to fucking popup <div>s and having that kind of web property tied to your name — yikes.

The Reject All button is only there for users detected to be within jurisdictions that require it be shown.

Why are Tariff and Terrible capitalized (and probably some other words)?

Well lucky for me they don’t use AWS so I haven’t seen an outage in 10+ years.

I haven’t used AWS in years. No IPv6 support in S3 in 2017 was the last straw for me. I have to deal with it at work (sometimes) and always laugh when they introduce “new” features like HTTPS records in Route53 like two years late.

Why do you say AWS, Azure and Google are the only options? I don’t use any of those greedy companies’ platforms.

Yes, I use Tailscale but WireGuard is another great option that’s simpler for more tech-savvy people.

Yeah, when I can’t access my bank account the first thing I do is “touch grass.” 🥴

Once per year? I had outages much more often than that on AWS.

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