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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • My closest supermarket is 400m away, and the next supermarket over is 1.1km. I walk there daily, sometimes multiple times a day. 3km is quite far and I would not consider that walking distance.

    It’s certainly possible to walk that distance once every (couple of) months, if I did not have my bike available for whatever reason? But I would consider regularly walking 40 minutes one way every other day to be far too much. That distance is cycling distance, not walking distance.

    On a side-note. Did you just say that the bus arrives only once every four hours? My lord… It might as well basically not exist at that point.




  • It is currently unknown whether the two are related:

    The shooting appears to have stemmed from some sort of dispute, though the motive is unclear and no arrests have been made at this point in the investigation, WABC reported.

    It’s very unfortunate regardless. Especially considering the two people shot were teenagers, one of them apparently shot in the head.
    I hope it wasn’t a hate crime, but I fear that it might have been

    (Note: This was still a developing story when I wrote this comment. We might know more later)












  • After Trump was elected and inaugurated, Signal has finally been gaining some steam here in the Netherlands.

    It’s still an American company, so it’s not ideal. But it’s still significantly better better than letting a tech giant like Facebook have control over the most commonly used chat app.

    WhatsApp needs to go and Signal is the most likely way in which we can achieve that. We can worry about the American elephant in the room later.


  • Failed wheat harvest which caused a bread shortage.
    Bread was a staple food in 18th century France.

    I’m not quite sure if it is similar to the rice shortage in Japan today however. When the French couldn’t eat bread in the 18th century they went hungry, but when the Japanese today can’t buy rice they can just buy a different carb.

    Its the difference between barely scraping by on bread, and being inconvenienced by not being able to buy cheap rice.




  • I have 24TB on my own server, and another 1TB (split halfway between me and my boyfriend) that comes with a Proton account I pay for.

    The 24TB was about € 200 per drive, built out over several years.
    3 x 8 TB + 1 x 8 TB for parity makes about € 800 total. The other hardware was leftover computer hardware I had lying around, so in total I think the server cost me about € 1000,-

    I pay € 180 / year for Proton for two people, which is € 7,50 per person per month. That includes a mail server, 1 TB cloud storage (500 GB per person), VPN, password manager, etc.