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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Hmm, I don’t know anything about Whoogle, but from other privacy-conscious search engines, I would expect it to work when you use that URL in your bookmark.

    Three things I can imagine:

    • Something in your hosting stack strips the URL parameters, like maybe your reverse proxy, if you use one. You might be able to see in the Whoogle or web server logs, which URLs actually reach it. Might need to set it to debug/trace logging.
    • Maybe there’s a flag in the Whoogle configuration you need to enable to accept these preference URLs.
    • It’s a bug in that Whoogle version.



  • What I don’t like about the genre, is that I’m bad at it. 🙃

    More seriously, I do find it kind of frustrating at times. Restarting ten times in a roguelike, no problem, because it’s always a new challenge.
    But if I miss the same jump ten times, or have to retry the same platforming passage ten times, you’ll see me getting impatient, which means I’ll fail the next ten attempts, too…











  • Ah, yeah, I don’t think there was anything in the app. I guess, they could’ve mentioned it in the changelog, which gets shown in the app by default after an update.

    But yeah, I think we’ll have to excuse a bit of a bumpy ride here. I know, it says “Mozilla” on there now, but to my knowledge, it’s still just the one core dev…






  • I guess, it becomes more unusual when you’re old enough to buy your own candy. At that point, if you don’t put effort in, it might come off to some neighbors like you’re freeloading.

    But as others said, if you put on a costume and you’re clearly enjoying the process, maybe you even make it a friend group activity, then it’s easy to believe that you’re doing it for fun. It’s not like you’d get rich off of freeloading candy in any scenario anyways.