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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

    Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

    Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.









  • I remember a game I played ~9 years ago where you could send ships to explore the world and when they got back you had the option to reject their findings. If you never rejected anything, the world would be exactly like Earth, but everytime you rejected it would randomize the section that had been explored and over time it would start generating a whole new world.

    And you could even make the planet flat by rejecting the discovery of it being round.









  • I once worked for one of the largest media companies in my country and there was a project where they wanted to replace reCaptcha with a partner’s system that made users watch ads and ask a question about the ad instead of typing some hard to read text.

    Testing such system, I quickly realized that the captcha part of it could easily be bypassed by anyone with minimal JS knowledge (the answer was available in a global JS var), but the answer would not be accepted by the server unless the entirety of the ad video had been successfully streamed to the video component.

    I still remember clearly the response I got when I reported to the PO that the system was unfit due to being easily bypassed with JS:

    “no user is gonna be coding anything just to avoid typing the answer on the input”.

    Shouldn’t have expected much more from the same company that had me wait for the responsible person to get back from their 1-month vacation when I reported that their customers’ full credit card information was included in the output of a publicly available URL that only required an order ID.

    But I later found out that most orders in that particular project were actually made by bots with stolen credit card information (the bots would use this company’s shopping cart to validate which cards were still working so they could use it for something useful afterwards). In the end we were mostly just leaking information that had already been leaked before.


  • I’ve recently reorganized my office, adding extra 4k screens in the process and I was surprised at how many “modern” stuff just barely supports large resolutions if at all. Even some of the monitors themselves only support 4k resolution at 60Hz in one specific HDMI port. Most computers here also only had one HDMI port and so I needed adapters to be able to use the second Monitor’s good port, but then most adapters also couldn’t reach 4k 60Hz.

    Going online to buy better adapters, they all try to hide the fact that they can’t handle HDMI 2.0 and advertise as being 4k compatible with no mention of the refresh rate. I ended up having to order from out of state to be sure it would work, then wait for over a week for delivery.