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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • These are not necessarily unpopular in terms of subscribers, but nieche in terms of topics:

    • acollierastro: theoretical physicist with a unique style. What got me hooked are her videos debunking or responding to popular scientific misconceptions.
    • Ben Eater: teaches computer related subjects like electronics, networking, low level programming, architecture etc. in a fun way. He has a series where he builds a computer from scratch with cables and circuit boards.
    • Living Ironically in Europe: if 2balkans4you was a youtube channel, although he has some serious content as well
    • Masaman: mostly talks about genetics, he hasn’t made any new videos in a while.
    • Max Derrat: he seems to have deep knowledge about occult stuff and its history which he uses to analyse video games and other media.
    • Ostura Official TV: progressive metal band from Lebanon.





  • I’m from a country with free university education and we also have student loans available.

    Here’s something that works for us: forget about private universities, invest in federal or state owned collages so that they can compete with the private ones.

    Do a scholarship program where students can get free entry into these universities if their grades are high enough in high school, or make it dependent on an entry exam. Those that don’t get in have a paid option that’s still partially funded by the state or federal government.

    Student loans will still be useful, not for tuition but for families who can’t afford to send their kids to study in the cities where the universities are located.


  • Communities I usually block if I see them more than once:

    • cities/towns (outside of mine)
    • porn
    • US politics
    • sports teams
    • tankies and neonazis
    • meme communities that flood my feed
    • meme communities of other countries
    • most Reddit repost communities
    • communities that focus mostly on negativity (making fun of people, ranting, artificial drama, “haha these people are stupid” etc.)
    • countries that only post in a language I don’t understand
    • communities with too many stereotypical Reddit users where I can already predict what 80% of the comments will be (commenting the same 10 jokes, only allowing the same opinions, referencing old Reddit posts etc.)

  • Not sure if they IP ban you because it’s not reliable. Most internet providers don’t give you a static IP, you get a new one every time you connect to the internet.

    I’ve been IP banned before from some Counter Strike (1.6) servers back in the day because they though I was cheating (I just learned the AK’s recoil pattern), all I had to do was restart the router to play again.

    I recently visited a forum for the first time and I wanted to comment but I couldn’t because I was IP banned. Probably because someone trolled there with the IP that I ended up receiving.

    Me and my friends got banned from an online game because we logged in from school computers and sent each other resources. They thought they were one person’s alt accounts, which was forbidden. This was before wifi became commonplace so I guess they assumed everyone used their own internet.

    I suspect that your IP is just one data point that they use to try to identify you if they do this sort of thing. Your browser (or their app) provides tons of information like screen resolution, device id, extension list, plugged in device list etc. These can identify you quite accurately.



  • This is really strange but a few weeks ago I was looking for something to watch and I came across the thumbnail for the Golden Girls.

    That thumbnail gave me a huge nostalgia trip and I can’t explain why. The show was never aired in my home country so I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it as a kid. I watched some clips from it and I felt nothing.

    But the moment I look at that thumbnail of the main cast sitting together I feel like I’m at my parents house in my old room as a 6 year old.








  • I used both Spotify and Tidal, I have upper mid range headphones and I couldn’t tell the difference in quality.

    I’m now using YouTube Music because it costs the same as Spotify (around $4 in my country) but I also get YT Premium, so no YT ads on mobile either. On desktop I’m using an ad blocker, so by having premium I can support the creators that I watch without wasting my time with ads.


  • I had an art teacher when I was around 12 years old who hated my guts. I wasn’t the most well behaved student but the things she did was sometimes petty other times aggressive.

    She once threw a water bottle at me because I had a chat with the guy next to me. She missed but the bottle damaged the wall next to me.

    She told my girlfriend to stay after class because she wants to talk to her. She spent 10 minutes trying to get her to break up with me.

    She never failed to tell me that I’m a good for nothing and I’ll probably end up as a homeless drunk and I’ll live beside the road.

    She always made fun of my drawings and paintings trying to humiliate me in front of the class.

    I wasn’t her only target, she had one in every class.