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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.

    I’m not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them… I think I’d feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.







  • I haven’t been active on Reddit for 2 years… and I miss it, a lot. Reddit is where a lot of the best and most active communities are located. It’s where a lot of the experts in various fields are active. It really is the best place for contacting other like-minded people for a specific community.

    I hate that Reddit forces people to use their mobile app, or you have to pay a monthly fee to use a 3rd party app. And I really wish more people had left when they made these changes, but that didn’t happen. Lemmy is growing, but as a resource it is sadly no where near as useful as Reddit.

    The average user doesn’t care about any of the things that happen behind the scenes, or privacy… they just want to be where the most people are, and that’s Reddit.


  • I’ve not watched any of this, however there were investigations and "investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.” ". That seems to me that this was simulated torture, or at the very least consensual torture. I’ve watched and enjoyed many episodes of Jackass and I’d consider some of the things they did to be a form of torture… this just seems to be the natural progression of that genre of ‘shock entertainment’, which unfortunately went too far in this case.


  • Yet another great video from Benn… however, I’m a bit disappointed that he isn’t more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he’s likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it’s nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.