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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Digital Fortress! I don’t think it had plot armour (I’ll spoiler tag it as it was the very end of the book):

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    The password was to stop malware (that was leaking all their secrets in real time) and every wrong guess sped up the process. Also their brute force machine was the thing that was caught by the malware in the first place so maybe they were extra cautious and wanted to try and solve the riddle?

    It’s been like twenty years since I read the book though so maybe I’m misremembering. Cool story though (or at least my younger self thought so), taught me about how the NSA can read your messages years before Snowden.




  • People make youtube videos because it generates income

    It wasn’t always this way, plenty of people made great youtube videos just for fun before there was any kind of “monetisation”. Sure, there weren’t the highly polished big budget videos (which would probably have been on tv back in the day), but there also wasn’t all the like-and-subscribe sponsored shit which makes the internet so unpleasant nowadays.

    YouTube is good because there’s money coming in and going out

    So yeah, I can’t disagree with this enough!