Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I grew up under subsistence minimum. We grew our own food, and even then we often didn’t have enough. Honestly, without free school lunches things would’ve likely looked way different. Growing up keenly aware of that sort of financial distress is fucking terrible, and I don’t wish it on anyone.

    I’m alright now, decently well paid, and I do, but it’s still obvious how the money grubbing elite is trying to chip away at the rest of us bit by bit and it makes me so furious. There’s no way in hell I’ll ever own a home myself.

    Family? Not in a million years. No child deserves to live in the world we’ve built. It’s unethical.









  • Well I suppose the question really is; how many Firefox iOS/iPad OS are there in the EU and does that amount of users make it worth maintaining another 1-2 apps for the EU market, while dealing with Apple’s shenanigans? Like Firefox Browser for iOS and iPad, as well as Firefox Focus are already 2 apps, if you want to replace the back-end specifically for the EU you’d have to maintain that back-end, deal with Apple working against you, and maintain separate versions of those apps specifically for the EU.

    It’s worth noting that Firefox for iOS is already leaps and bounds behind Firefox for Android in terms of UX. There are features missing that they could add regardless of whether they are using WKWebView or not, but they haven’t, either because Apple doesn’t want competition, or because they don’t consider the Firefox browser on iOS to be particularly high priority.

    If the latter, why on Earth would they port Gecko to iOS/iPad OS when a vanishingly small subset of users might use it? I am a European Firefox user, but I don’t use Firefox on iOS because the UX compared to Safari is incredibly lacklustre. Switching the back-end to Gecko wouldn’t do anything to fix that.







  • The thing that trips me up most about this subject is that 140 years ago, pork fat was very good for seasoning cast iron. Today, it isn’t, because the composition of the fat has changed significantly.

    That sounds very interesting! Is it because of the way pigs are raised now compared to back then? They eat way fewer babies now, I bet.



  • Weirdly, a dough scraper. It’s not because of the measurement conversions, I don’t think I’d ever noticed them up until now actually. It’s just a really solid dough scraper. I use it for dough, but I’ve also used it for so many other things, like assembling/disassembling furniture, patching holes in the wall, wrapping furniture in a vinyl sheet. Loads of various tasks.

    Every so often you find that you need a solid, flat, steel thing, and this comes in handy every single time.

    picture of a normal dough scraper