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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • So here’s what happened recently:

    • I opened the Google News widget on my Android phone, saw a Sponsored link, and found it interesting
    • Clicked on it, the link opened in Chrome, opening the googleadservices redirection thingummy
    • Took over 5 seconds to process the redirect
    • I exited the browser

    Guess who missed ad money?


    But of course, maybe they got the ad money and the only losers were:

    • me, who didn’t get to see the website that might actually have had something I wanted
    • the website owner, who not only didn’t get my business but also had to pay Google, because Google most probably processed the ad first and didn’t care to process the redirect

    I feel like I understand why they removed the “Do no evil” sign. Because now, they are messing with both, the product and the customers, only providing as much as is required to take their money, instead of the full, advertised service.












  • Just don’t run their shitty silicon burners on your system and get some good stuff.
    Support teams that are willing to make builds for the latest Arch release (and tell me too if you find any :P).

    I have narrowed down my “to pay” list to GoG + Linux games, only problem being, since they are not open source, we still depend upon them rebuilding the binaries for the latest systems. Otherwise, we need to then keep an older version of Ubuntu for it. Really wish GoG pushed Debian as a standard for those cases (for old games which the dev might not rebuild), because Ubuntu ages worse than Debian, when out of LTS.



  • Yeah, just stay awake long and overwork your brain (preferable with stuff you like, or you’ll fail to stay awake long enough).
    You reach a point where you feel mentally tired, unable to concentrate well but unable to sleep because it is conflicting with your Carcadian rhythm. At that time, you can get to a relatively darker place, watch/read/think of whatever you want to hallucinate and it might work.

    Make sure not to be sedentary during the whole exercise or you will require much more effort with much less effect.

    Doing this alongside fasting, helps (makes you stay awake more).

    At the end of it, your day and night cycle will be destroyed and you will have to restore it over time.


    Oh and don’t drive