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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • Only one I’ve donated to (unfortunately), is Garuda. When I built my gaming PC, I had budgeted money for a copy of windows. But after I built it I was loving my steam deck so much that I had the thought to install linux instead. Garuda is the arch for gaming with the easy install of something like endeavor. Probably mostly marketing, but I love their look too. Gaming has been great on it, and I sent them the windows money. $120 or so iirc.





  • It is impossible. US states make the law, and require the websites to self-block the IP addresses within the state using geo-ip. It’s a flawed solution, but comes with the benefit of being able to sue any semi-large website for not self-blocking and the state receives free fine money. Best part is the state doesn’t actually have to do anything, just pass the law and rake in the publicity.


  • Ask him what his favorite is in a rando conversation. He’ll probably go on for a while and mention a few. Then grab him one of the ones he mentions, or two if the budget allows. You can also go to the clerk and tell them what he said, there might be something similar and in a variety pack. If he’s adventurous at all he’d probably like at least something from the variety pack.







  • I messed around with it back in college. Had a lab where we had to make our own OS with a purpose. Lots of people made their own digital picture frame. This was back in 2005 when linux and gentoo were rougher around the edges. I tried compiling my own custom kernel. One that had only the drivers needed for my hardware. Took like 2 days per compile. After several tweaks and fixes I got the kernel to compile, but not boot.

    Eventually caved and went the easy route of compiling the generic kernel because I had a deadline. I installed xfce, metasploit, nessus, wireshark, and a handful if other tools to make a knockoff kali linux for my project. It was fun, and I learned a lot.


  • That’s what you are paying for. You can’t really scrape email addresses. So that database is marketing data that is bought and sold.

    I own my own domain. I have email hooked up to that domain. I’m the only user on my domain. ALL email addresses get forwarded to me. [email protected] would show up in my email box.

    Corporations also get every email address for their domain. They don’t broadcast valid email addresses. Typically they receive a valid one, and forward it to the proper person inside their org. Or if invalid, they will discard it. Some places will return a response saying that’s not a valid email, but most people stopped doing that. One because it costs money, and two it’s actually a security hole. You could theoretically brute-force valid email addresses of top executives, or anyone.

    Instead websites gather lists of addresses by means of new accounts, and sell that data to these companies, who sell it to people who want it.