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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Ah yes, the authentication scourge of the internet, passkeys.

    • enter the code emailed to you to login
    • enter code
    • “please try again” (no error given)
    • enter new code
    • “Please try again” (no error given)
    • enter new code
    • “Please try again” (no error given)
    • enter new code
    • “Please try again” (no error given)
    • enter new code
    • “Please try again” (no error given)

    Repeat forever. That is how corporate passkeys seem to work nowadays.







  • Buy a computer monitor as big as possible (42" non ultrawide as far as I can find). Otherwise if you are in an isolated area (no wifi reachable from other houses and thus TV hotspots), then you can just get a TV and block it from the internet on your router. If you are good with electronics, you can rip out the mic and/or network card or chip.

    Then get an orange pi 5 pro/plus/ultra with a rockchip RK3588/RK3588S if they are ever fucking available again, and put plasma bigscreen on it.

    Or if you are more tech savvy, hook up a recycled newish Intel laptop motherboard, slap a heatsink and fan on, 3D print a chassis, get a power supply, and throw plasma big screen on it.






  • Also in Belgium. You know that the Belgian army was in the Congo during that period? That means government support. The state literally gave him the money for his “purchase” and also paid propagandists to promote it. They also took it over in 1908 officially and continued to exploit them, enforcing an alpartheid, and kidnapped thousands of children. Our grandparents were literally the ones doing the kidnapping.

    You know that belgian citizens cut off the hands of children and workers, mass raped women and children, and mass executed people in the Congo? We can’t hide and "b-b-but Leopold acted alone, it wasn’t Belgium" our way out of recent ancestors committing genocide. King Leopold never even went to the Congo.

    This is exactly the same as saying “america didn’t elsave millions of african people, private people and companies did”. It still happened. The american government also aren’t the ones physically killing children in Gaza.



  • Absolutely.

    We have to rely on some good resellers, of which there are few.

    Tinytronics.nl is my go to for central Europe. Not that much markup, fast shipping, good service. Of course their stock is limited compared to the vastness of aliexpress.

    For components, RS and TME are the only sellers that sell to individuals in the EU and their stock is miniscule, especially for MCUs. You can barely find any stock from EU MCU suppliers. You literally can’t find ublox Nordic chips in the EU as an individual. You can’t find raw Nordic chips where you have to design your own antenna that were released in the past 7 years in the EU.

    It is honestly scandalous how shitty the EU electronics distributing market is for products that are literally made in the EU.







  • Ah, yes, this should make EU electronics manufacturers, who literally do not sell their products at all to individuals in the EU, forcing them to go through Chinese and US corporate import distributers, much safer and more accessible for the EU citizen…

    /s

    This is going to all but wipe out the electronics self-repair and DIY industry, but that is one of the actual goals. Corporate-bought slimy excuses for MEPs want you completely dependent on their corporate masters.

    Forget about trying to fucking buy a motor anymore. EU companies, again, literally won’'t sell to individuals.