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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I just upgraded from my trusty Pixel 4a to a refurbished Pixel 8, it would have turned 4 years old next week. The battery was completely shot at the end, I got maybe 2½ hours of screentime.
    I would have been perfectly happy with just swapping the battery and using it for the next four years, this p8 doesn’t really do anything new at all, it just does all the same things slightly faster.
    But I got a good deal on it, so meh.





  • Obviously, assuming you have that hill.
    Slightly harder to do in places like the Netherlands for example, where the tallest hill is 322 metres, and the second tallest that isn’t part of that same mountain range near the Belgium border is just 110.

    And in the US, Florida, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois are actually flatter than the Netherlands - sure, the highest point in Indiana (Hoosier Hill) is 383 metres from the sea level, but the lowest point in the entire state is 98 metres above.







  • Yet it is.

    You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you’ve acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it’s called an “asset acquisition” - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it’s left with most of the liabilities.
    Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

    In this instance:

    According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”

    …how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.





  • Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.

    But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it’s clear that isn’t all you are doing any more.

    I did assume in the end that it stole all my shopping data, and probably bunch of browsing history in general, which is why I had it installed in a separate browser, but I didn’t expect it to be doing affiliate hacking and blackmailing partner deals for the coupons.