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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I find that setup an obnoxious user experience. Instead of one hotkey that tells my password manager to fill out the login form, now I have to switch to my mail app, wait for the login email to arrive (if my mail provider or the site’s mail provider is having trouble, no login for me!) then back to my browser where I need to close the original tab because clicking the email link opened a new one.

    If I am on a shared computer, now I need to either manually copy a long URL from my phone or read my email on that computer, a much bigger security risk than just entering a password and 2FA code.




  • Yes, but much less than I used to. When I don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want to doomscroll a bit, I find myself checking Lemmy first, and only if I run out of things to read, which I usually don’t, do I move on to Reddit.

    There are still some niche communities that are active on Reddit and not here. So I do still go over there on purpose for those.


  • My parents are teachers. In the 1970s, my mom’s school gave her a newfangled “personal computer” to take home for the summer and try to figure out some use for.

    7-year-old me was addicted to the thing from day one and my mom barely got a chance to touch it all summer. Out of the box it didn’t do much, but the manuals showed you how to program it to do whatever you wanted to. I read those books cover to cover and inhaled all the other books and magazines on the subject I could find. Thinking up a program from scratch and seeing it do things on its own was unlike any experience I’d ever had.

    Coming up on 50 years later, making computers do things is still a joy, I’m pretty good at it, and people pay me money to do it. Can’t complain about how that turned out!