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Cake day: August 7th, 2026

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  • github had (has?) free pro accounts for students back when github didn’t offer private repos for free. if you forgot to cancel your student account when you graduated, github would simply hold your private repos hostage unless you paid for them. no option given to simply make them public repos. i would have lost mountains of my work had they not fucked up and unlocked my repos for a couple hours, which allowed me to clone everything i didn’t have locally and migrate to gitlab.

    so basically, sometimes those student offers build in scam tactics.



  • “works great” as in… how? it’s all way too slow and volitile and cumbersome to handle the global financial system, so nobody actually uses it as currency. in what sense does it “work great?” in theory it works great, but in practice, not so much. nobody wants to pay their rent with bitcoin if the price has shifted down 20% by the time it gets processed.

    in practice it’s also really easy to link your crypto transfers to you. it only takes one opsec failure and you’re not anonymous anymore. so i really don’t think it works “great.”








  • it becomes easier to understand when you look outside of your bubble for, like, a second.

    if you want to try explaining to my eldery mother that lives 3000 miles away how to setup wireguard so she can access my jellyfin server on her smart tv, be my guest. oh you’ll just do it remotely? ok, explain to her how to install and setup vnc and forward the right ports so you can remote in, oh but she doesn’t want to watch on her laptop, she wants it on her tv. can’t vnc into that.

    or you can say “install the plex app and i emailed you your login details.”

    i’m a jellyfin user, but that’s why people continue to use plex.