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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Was part of a team that was sent to Boston for a project. While we were there, the company announced they were changing the meal expense policy from reimbursement for submitted bills to a fixed stipend.

    But that policy change was a couple of days away, so the whole team went to this fancy expensive restaurant for dinner, and we ordered expensive food and wines as one last hurrah.

    I don’t even remember where or what I ate or drank.

    I just remember it was a good time.


  • Depends.

    Lemmy and reddit are definitely more media friendly.

    I think reddit managed to capture a certain generation of users for a lot of topics, and I think its recommendation algorithm helps keep the user experience more interesting by throwing exposing the user to new groups they may be interested in. Very similar to how YouTube works.

    But like other social media, the reddit algorithm also creates a very silo-ed, radicalized user base.

    Forum users tend to be older, and I have seen a few specialty forums die off due to attrition and a lack of new users.

    I think one huge benefit of forums is the good ones are tightly moderated, so bots and trolls are quickly dealt with.

    Forums whose topics where age is a lesser factor, or where non-commercialization benefits their userbase, are lasting longer, but generally they’re getting picked off.

    I think Discord is more like a media-friendly IRC, which was never my bag so I’ll let others opine on it.







  • It’s true that crypto is commonly used in online drug transactions, but there are other justifiable uses, such as moving money out of countries with repressive regimes like China and Russia.

    Also paying for certain genres of porn that major credit card banks like Visa and MasterCard have somewhat arbitrarily designated as unacceptable, such as certain types of BDSM e.g. consensual nonconsensual, anything that shows blood, kinky hypnosis and mind control, vampires, etc.

    Of course obvious child porn and bestiality should be banned period, so some regulation is needed. But I’m not sure that the government delegating responsibility for regulation to the credit card banks is the best way to do it. The rules and enforcement are completely arbitrary and cannot be appealed.