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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Not my story, but my mother’s. We’re Canadian, which is relevant to the story.

    A few months ago she was at a large conference in the US for a very large multinational corp. During one of the talks being given, they brought out another Canadian speaker who addressed the fact that there were other Canadians in the crowd.

    Behind her, she hears some guy shout “Our 51st State!”

    She turns around to him, and very loud tells him “Oh fuck off, I’d rather be dead.” He had quite a horrified look on his face.

    Turns out he’s one of the top Execs at the company. Fast forward to about a week ago, and guess who is visiting the Canadian offices? He received a very cold reception.









  • I don’t own a smartphone since the area I live in has no cell towers nearby anyways, not much point. I have an old flip phone with a prepaid plan I keep in the car for emergencies, but otherwise I’m still living without.

    I use tuta for my email, and privacy focused front ends when possible.

    I’ve setup a Matrix server with bridges to Whatsapp and Discord so I don’t need to use their clients, and have better control over what traffic is being sent/received.

    My tablet, and any IoT devices, are kept in a VLAN so I don’t need to worry about what kind of information they’re sending back to them.

    Facebook/IG/etc have never really been a thing in my life, so that’s never been a problem for me to begin with.

    All of my computers/servers run Linux with the exception of my Gaming Rig, which is currently running AtlasOS (modified Win10) but I’ll be switching it to Linux at some point in the next few months.