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Cake day: April 6th, 2025

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  • The internet has been ‘app-ified’. For many, if not most, people the internet is a collection of apps. Mail, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. The time of webrings, forums and indexes are long gone.

    Sometimes I feel blessed to have been around when the internet was like the wild west, everything open to everyone. Now gatekeepers are everywhere. Your success on-line determined by the algos from multi-billion dollar companies.



  • Even if you intend to give it away for free, still price it. Once it’s free it will attract a lot of… shady characters. In my experience at least. Even asking a very cheap price will almost eliminate all the weirdos and odd requests. It’s like they only search for stuff that’s free. When it came to my kid’s old toys I ended giving it away for free when they came to pick it up with cash in hand.







  • China for sure. Taiwan only on paper, in practice it’s fine with the territory it has and has no ambitions of ousting the CPP and regaining it’s former territories. But if Taiwan breaks this “stalemate” than China will consider it a declaration of independence. Which is also weird, since Taiwan (formally the Republic of China) has been an independent nation since 1912 and is a direct continuation of 250 years of Qing Dynasty rule. Whilst China (formally the People’s Republic of China) was split of from the ROC in 1949.

    Which even weirder is that the British obtained Hong Kong from the Qing Dynasty. And since the ROC is the continuation of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong should be returned to Taiwan. But for obvious practical reasons that was not what happened.