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Cake day: March 2nd, 2025

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  • Bit more info, this is a common combination for stocks, soups and stews in French cuisine, traditionally 2:1:1 ratio onions to carrots and celery.

    In Italian cuisine the essentially same thing is Sofrito, there is also the Cajun Holy Trinity which varies ingredients but is for similar purposes.

    This is kind of a staple for a lot of quality cooking, you should at least make a stock from scratch at some point in your life and you’ll see why these combinations are so important if you do so.










  • Programming is a balance of compromises, one has to define a balance between optimisation, maintainability, legibility, security and much more.

    The kernel handles a bunch of different ‘low level’ things that are quite complicated (Allocating memory to programs, scheduling what programs the CPU needs to run, creating security layers for users, handling temperature and performance throttling, peripherals etc)

    Due to its pivotal role in an operating system, the kernel developers walk a very thin line of compromises to ensure that it can be maintained and still remain performant.

    They do all of this while ensuring that any updates to the Kernel do not break older systems when they update (fingers crossed) or they do not break programs specific to the user (Userspace programs)








  • If given the option, I would take 1925 with its great depression, world wars and pandemics over 2025.

    Our current society has been insidiously changed over the last 40 years to create an indentured population to serve a select few, this comes at the cost of a mass extinction event which in all honesty will most likely cause the human race to go the way of the dodo.

    So no amount of social mobility will fix this, I’m sorry but the world is a nightmare hellscape. Thank god we can compartmentalize.


  • Migrated away from Google because they’re just genuinely useless.

    Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can’t actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you’re looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.

    Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.

    Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.

    Don’t even get me started on the shit show that is Android.

    I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can’t. I’m the furthest away from the big tech corps than I’ve ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.