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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Most startups die and in their race to get to market, typically accrue heavy technical debt.

    Unless you’re at a startup founded by industry or academic veterans, you likely won’t learn much more than how work long hours to ship a minimum viable product that looks good on the outside but is incredibly poorly built, cost ineffective, resource inefficient, and lacks decent security.

    If a startup is full of veterans, it can be a magical, close knit environment to learn by osmosis and make incredible connections.

    But I don’t get that vibe from this company based on what you’ve said.






  • If this is the actual extension by Raymond Hill, it’s pretty trustworthy. They’ve been committed to keeping uBlock Origin open source, won’t sell data, and has stated they’ll never hand the project over, but simply archive the repo and let someone fork.

    Ray got stung years ago when they tried to step away from uBlock (the original project, before uBlock Origin) and uBlock ended up getting taken over by the AdblockPlus lot. Ray doesn’t want to go through that again.

    They’ve previously archived projects like uMatrix too, an example that they’re not looking to hand over projects to anyone again and leave it to the community to fork and maintain if they want to keep it alive without Ray.

    If you’re concerned, fork the repo and maintain your own version so you can be sure it’s trustable.





  • It’s not just poorly written, it’s poorly cast, directed, shot, and edited.

    Continuity between shots is abysmal, rapid cut away for a second or two meaning no gravity is given to anything, action scenes completely unplanned to the point nothing seems to connect and no one seems to be aiming the right directions (spatial continuity), Kevin Hart cast as the straight guy, reshoots to remove an R rating with actors aging and from scene to scene, dialogue quips dubbed in, a plot lacking character narrative and development, actors looking bored and likely given no direction or motivation to connect with their character, quotes from the games the actors have no context for and deliver boringly, opening with dull narration, dull narration in the middle, dull narration at the end…

    I could go on. Crap writing can be saved if the thing is decent to look at (e.g. the Avatar series) or cut well (e.g. Quantum of Solace) but Borderlands had nothing redeeming about it.


  • Know that if you break your streak, no one will be upset. You can post even without it being related to “Day 999 of…”.

    Your health and wellbeing always come first. I read these posts every time and I do hope you’re not stressing yourself over them. They’re super fun but you owe the community nothing.

    Have fun, enjoy yourself, and don’t worry if/when you miss a day/week/month/year/decade/century.

    We’ll all be here to enjoy whatever you share, and if you decide to stop, please just let us know you’re okay since that is all that will be on our minds if you do decide to stop or take a break.

    Happy gaming <3







  • 100%. I’ve got servers running arch for the past 5 years or so and they’re the most stable systems I’ve got. I got so tired of the painful upgrade paths on “stable” distros so decided to switch a server to a rolling release.

    After I found arch got security patches into the repos faster than the stable distros could backport, I decided to switch them all over.

    I’m even a mad man and have them self update with a script that checks informant (or something, can’t actually remember) for installed packages against news. If no installed packages are found in news, it continues with the scheduled update.

    It’s glorious.