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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • When I was like 18 I brought a girl to my house while my family were away for the weekend. I wasn’t intending to do anything with her, I’d just invited her over for some company as we’d be speaking for a couple of months and had already been out a few times together but not exactly on “dates”.

    Anyway, I ordered some pizza and put on a movie. Next thing I know, she’s cuddling into me and I’m stroking her hair. At one point she is laying across my lap gazing up at me.

    I didn’t fucking kiss her because I’m a damn idiot who couldn’t take the hint. She couldn’t have made it more obvious that she was waiting for me to make the move. I’m not autistic myself, just a regular moron.

    We gradually stopped talking after that night. I blew my chance. Shit still bothers me years later. She was super sweet and pretty. Best girlfriend I never had.


  • The problem with this sort of analogy is that the physical risk of leaving your unlocked is difficult for people to translate into digital risk. If that makes sense. Your average person is generally not going to see any noticeable negative effect of 100 different companies having all their personal info. But they’d feel constantly paranoid about leaving their doors unlocked.

    For me that’s the hardest part of explaining why people should care about digital privacy. It doesn’t really affect their day to day life very much if at all.

    I’m a big advocate of digital privacy, but I find it to be more ideological than practical which makes it much harder to convince apathetic people. For example, take privacy out of the equation and Facebook can’t be topped for its utility to non privacy conscious people.