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Cake day: June 28th, 2021

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  • You’re objectively evil.

    Typical Trump apologist mentality, projecting their own views and not backing up their claims.

    Not reading past your first paragraph as it already makes every source after that irrelevant.

    Cheers! 🍻 Stay ignorant.

    You feel really smart adding references and sources to your deathwish right? I hope you realize how ironic that looks.

    Just trying to help others educate themselves on the facts, but there’s only so much you can do when people are willing to stay ignorant 🤓

    EDIT: I should add - please, at the very least, read up on the paradox of tolerance. Your ignorance only helps the enemy.



  • I’m having a similar issue lately with an AndroidTV beta (Nvidia Shield) and a Chromecast device. I wonder if its related? I unfortunately haven’t had time to look into it and just use VLC as an external player. I’ve noticed that some videos will play back with the built-in player but others will not.

    EDIT: I noticed “Cinema mode” was enabled which is supposed to “Play available intros and previews before starting a movie”, but I don’t have any intros or previews. I disabled the setting and my videos are working again! Not sure why it got enabled. But if you have this on, maybe try toggling it.

    EDIT2: Just saw you fixed your issue below - I’ll leave mine up in case anyone else runs into a similar problem.







  • Signal, originally known as TextSecure, worked entirely over text messages when it first came out. It was borne from a different era and and securing communication data was the only immediate goal because at the time everything was basically viewable by anyone with enough admin rights on basically every platform. Signal helped popularize end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and dragged everyone else with them. Very few services at the time even advertised E2EE, private metadata or social graph privacy.

    As they’ve improved the platform they continue to make incremental changes to enhance security. This is not a flaw, this is how progress is made.






  • Are you familiar with Baruch Spinoza? His take is fascinating. His higher power did not concern itself with the fates of mankind, but is responsible for the lawful harmony of existence. It also does not discount or displace science in any way.

    That’s basic deism but I would disagree and say it does conflict with science. Science is evidence-based, if you claim something exists you must present evidence to support it. I can’t just claim there’s a 5-ton diamond in my backyard and say “trust me bro”. Nobody would believe me, so why should anyone believe in any god without evidence?