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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • Adding to the original question, is it ethically OK to keep using these corporate AI tools? I fear engaging with it would give these companies all the more reason to develop them further and continue their illegal data extraction. I would personally prefer to boycott them but I am unsure as to whether it would be akin to shooting myself in the foot by this point.






  • All this time I was wondering what black sorcery DST was performing to magically “add more sunlight” when it was simply the matter of setting the clock 1hr early.

    I would rather go with having separate schedules for winter and summer for everything; even thinking about adopting DST is nauseating for me. I enjoy having a uniform time scale independent from external environmental factors.

    Thank you very much for sharing this link.



  • This isn’t related to the context of the post, but I recall giving a review in an earlier post regarding the blog site. Assuming you (positive-intentions) are the same person as the author of the previous post (xoron), It’s impressive how you came this far with your blog and apps since then.

    Your blog post about bottom-up browser state management was particularly interesting because I was dealing with indexedDB before and ended up going with a wrapper while I personally wanted to work with a custom solution. The explanations for the code snippets are to-the-point, easy to follow and overall well written which I really appreciate as a person not experienced in reading blogs.

    Also I enjoyed your in-house illustrations. Keep up the great work!



  • With regard to what if every person on earth gets a similar buffer: Assuming everyone initially becomes aware of this feature, I would imagine communities would pool up their storage by connecting them via references to other member’s name or identity (similar to linked lists). They could store their collective thoughts in the form of megathreads similar to how Twitter users do it, in plain text or making use of links to Babel pages as suggested in another comment.

    Intelligence agencies would be extremely efficient in cramming information in their limited shared buffers. Imagine they observe ‘CakeShoeRock’ written in the buffer and immediately conclude they are in a time loop because they anticipated this exact scenario and developed a comprehensive set of protocols and a system of condensed code words to follow for the same in advance.