The Ramen Dutchman

Shit, it’s good for one thing, at least!

I mean really, fuck Microsoft and Windows!

If your mum is not OK with this, can I be your adoptive parent?

That’s funny, what if it’d actually be true 👀

On my Linux at home it types nothing but if I press the I key again I get î. I can also do ê, â, ô and û this way.

US Intl Macintosh layout.

you’d basically be coding in porn

Promise?

This reads like AI, not the least because the text is as disconnected to itself as the fact that it’s about a train instead of a bus.

Yeah, it talks like it was made for HR managers.

Yeah and it’s quite old, this one has nothing to do with vibe coding.

Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That’s an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”

I only just realised how based my parents are.

Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.

Then screenshot it so that the screenshot of the photo is at the top, then switch to the other app and upload the screenshot of the photo there.

I assumed they meant it like 2025-08-18…

Though TBF I sometimes rename files using the terminal and go mv $file "some_name_$(date +%s),ext"

“Everyone is gunning for you when you’re at the top!”
~ someone, after CE

When getting data legitimately is beyond them…

Yeah the nerds usually find themselves in very powerful social circles if they survive school. Circles of emotionally mature experts with strong careers.

You’re assuming they’ll be hired and promoted by emotionally mature people.

And ngrok is en-grok, not en-jii-rok…

What metadata does XMPP leak? AFAIK only when a message was sent, roughly (in large increments) how large the message was, the server of the sender knows from who to which server, the server of the recipient knows from which server to who.
I find it strange that Signal somehow doesn’t know when a message was sent, and from who to who; how would they ever make this possible?

Also, you say you have yet to find any other free service that collects as little data… How about most e-mail providers? Not Google and Microsoft of course, but most e-mail providers only need a name which can be made up as well. You hm also host your own email server, then you are in control. All of this is true for XMPP and Matrix, as well.

XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.

Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.

This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.

Signal is American

Opt for a Matrix or XMPP provider in Europe (magicbroccoli.de is a genuinely great XMPP provider)