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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • What is it that you’re trying to achieve by deleting your account?

    If you want to stop anyone else, or AI scraping, from using your stories, then I would think that you’d want to erase them.

    If you just want to be private or anonymous, then as long as there is no identifying information, you should be ok just abandoning them.

    Would it be ok if your stories got archived somewhere and someone got to read them, say in ten years, but there’s no information as to author or location? Or would it be better for your privacy/anonymity if they weren’t available ever again to anyone?

    I guess the answer depends on what you want the outcome to be.


  • That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard that before.

    I’m almost 60.

    I found out that I’m allergic to penicillin when I was a child (in the mid-70s) and had an anaphylactic reaction. I still remember being intubated by the paramedics because I couldn’t breathe.

    Five years ago I had tandem stem cell transplants to treat myeloma (blood cancer), which completely wiped out my immune system. I had to have all my childhood vaccines over again, and I was re-tested for penicillin allergy, (because they thought that might have been erased too); it’s definitely still there.








  • Does anybody still use “a good/favourite password” any more? Use a password manager, create a different password or pass phrase for every site, and save your good/favourite password for your password manager. (Unless you’re a sleeper spy for the KGB, writing your password on a piece of paper is fine).


  • Somewhere between Debian and SuSE on this chart, because the distros at that end are the ones that I’ve used the most. However, one can never say, “I know everything now”; and I have no doubt that other people have knowledge and skills that I lack. In this industry, you can never stop learning; knowledge is never wasted (unless like me, you look fondly back at uucp and troff).