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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • My dad and his buddy devised a plan to get unlimited calls from phone booths to abroad. They drilled a 2 Deutschmark coin and put a fishing line through it. They figured out that the coin only drops after the allotted time is up, allowing the machine for there to be credit registered. But there was nothing preventing the coin from going upwards again. So they just kept pulling it out and then inserting the coin again. And re-dialing the international number. Like some petty comic book villains.






  • You seem to be much more knowledgeable on the topic, and while I would call myself privacy conscious, I would hardly consider myself within the pricacy sphere. How would using something like bitwarden or keepassxc work with entering passwords on websites? Firefox just retrieves it from its vault (as bad as it may be from what I’m reading) and then inserts it into the u/p fields. I’ve seen LastPass in action plenty, because corporations seem to love it, and I find it anything but seemless. So how do those two aforementioned compare?









  • Well damn.

    My hatred of Windows got so much in the past two years, when I abandoned ship last year for Linux (using Arch btw), I was ready to ditch software that was not available native, without even bothering with trying to run them through Wine. In the end I had to abandon three of my absolute favourite software, totalcmd, notepad++ and foobar2000. Luckily I was able to replace them with nearly similar quality equivalents in Krusader, Kate and DeaDBeeF. Bit less polished, but very configurable.

    My work requires me to have a windows based laptop or a Macbook. They’ve told me that they’ve been trying Fedora workstation before, but supposedly the VPN doesn’t work on it. I’ve checked and the VPN expressly supports certain distro, including fedora. But they’ve simply disabled VPN access from non-win/mac based systems since. I suspect there’s either some skill issue or something fishy going on. I know they are monitoring incoming and outgoing files to the system via some tool, which may indeed be not supported on Linux workstations. However the way I use this laptop is simply by accessing it through RDP, and then share files between it and my personal desktop via SMB on LAN, and no one ever complained. I have the lid closed on it all the time. So in essence I just use it like a terminal, and only run work related webportals through a browser on it, like JIRA and shit. Most of my work related to our platform I’m running on my own desktop, because it’s significantly faster.

    Not sure what I’d do if I still had to run Windows or even VMs for stuff.