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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Hehe, that might actually have been more of the Uncle’s influence.

    He’s the one that started me on the science fiction addiction- when I got into his (then-complete) collection on VHS. I found them and started. Binge watching them. Got to Trouble With tribbles when I was found out- and then it was my Uncle who was like “oh! That’s my favorite. Rewind it while I go make popcorn!”



  • my first beowolf cluster, I built because I wanted to improve my pentium 486’s chances at doing well in some random FOSS benchmark (PiMark? it calculated pi… and you could ‘donate’ cpu runtime to help calculate more digits of pi.) It was cobbled out of my dad’s spare part’s rack.
    Should have seen my dad’s face when he realied why i built the beowolf… “You mean… you did this. FOR PI??”(“Okay, that’s actually cool.”)



  • First video game I remember playing? Short Order on NES (with the pad.) That was followed shortly by monopoly- also NES.

    First game I beat? was dad’s copy of Zelda (NES,) Which… I wasn’t supposed to be playing. I got caught when I saw my dad was struggling with the water temple.
    “Dad…dad DAD. you go here. get that. Do this. And then do this that and this.”
    “Oh. Cool. wait. how do you know this?”
    “Oh i beat it last week.”
    <awkward pause>
    “you better pay attention. that’s the boss.”
    “We’re not telling mom about this.”





  • It’s the bots that’ll rule.

    There’s a shit load of botting services out there you can pay to upvote your agenda. And those services have the revenue generation to pay for the exorbitant API access.

    Unless a sub is private… anyone can vote in polls, even if it’s restricted. Reddit may even have it’s own bots jumping in at that point.
    I wonder which is a less fair, russian annexation referendums or reddit mod votes.