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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it.

    Too many smug people think, “advertising doesnt work on me! Hah! Only weak minded normies fall for it…”

    Wrong… Advertising works. And that’s the reason a shit ton of money that goes into it.

    You want to know the reason why i run adblockers in my browser AND DNS levels? Because i KNOW advertising works on me… i KNOW i’m not smart enough to outsmart the army of engineers, and copywriters generating this stuff.

    Source: i work in advertising lol










  • My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:

    A) debian’s “out of date” browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser “security” policy

    They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me



  • For me, no…

    I’ve gone from debian 9 to debian 11 and now debian sid without reinstalling OS on my desktop

    Same with my servers. Debian 8 -> 11 all upgrades in-place. Will have to upgrade to 12 soon…

    The only time i messed up an upgrade is when accidentally used the codename “bookworm” in the sources file and skipped a major version. The system tried to fully upgrade 2 versions ahead and promptly borked itself… But it was an LXC container so i just rolled back my mistake. Lesson learned…

    But yeah. Full re-installs have NEVER been a thing for me since going debian. It will even happily clone to a new SSD when you need to upgrade your hardware. (As long as your new hardware has in-kernel drivers, or at least some basic functionality to boot and fix the problem, if any)