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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I’m sure you’re not nearly as loathe as you think.

    I’m sure you like being able to plug any device into any power outlet and have it work correctly and safely every time without even having to think about it.

    I’m sure you like being able to use your cell phone and wifi without it being an unusable mess of different technologies all trying to use the same frequencies.

    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    When an aspect of technology becomes far reaching enough that it effects essentially everyone and every device, and there are far reaching consequences to it not being interoperable, then that’s exactly the type of situation where it’s good for government to work with experts in the field and decide on an official enforced standard







  • There’s a map that shows where every file on your disk is. Doing a regular trash just erases the map pointer for that file, but the 1s and 0s that the file is made of are still sitting there on your disk. Secure erase writes 0s into that area on the disk, so even if you knew where that file used to be located on the disk, now you’ll just find 0s there, instead of finding the 1s and 0s of the old file.












  • Yup this is the answer. In the past people had put on black makeup and did horribly awful racist caricatures of black people. As a result putting on black makeup itself came to mean you’re doing racist stuff. IMO i think that far in the future if racism is eliminated then people will be able to put on dark makeup and it’ll be seen as fine. But none of us reading this sentence are gonna be alive to see that point