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Cake day: October 3rd, 2025

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  • After 17 years of contributing to Reddit, I got perma-banned after a few warnings about some mild stuff. All of these infractions were immediately after the IPO.

    1. Showing my No Kings med bag including personal self defense in a concealed carry, no CCW state. Gotta be careful out there.

    2. Suggesting a good “Christian nation”would break the Gaza aid blockade for the children.

    3. Suggesting a large limo company in Texas was being ghetto as fuck by strapping on window AirCon units to the sunroofs and calling themselves “luxury”.

    The final blow…

    1. Describing what 4chan (with an emphasis on /b/) was like in the early 00’s. I’m a little trigger shy so let’s do this… everyone who joined /b/ was a (homosexual f word), if you had been around a few years you were an Old (homosexual f word), if you were new you were a New (homosexual f word) and EVERYONE knew, New (homosexual f word’s) couldn’t triforce.

    That last one contained explicit language but the poster wanted to know what 4chan was like. I tried my best to answer and that was just a time capsule too far.






  • Woah, core memory unlocked! As kids, we put DSL on business card shaped DVDRWs and kept them in our wallets. We could take them to the library and boot into DSL, bypassing the software security.

    At the time, libraries had outrageously fast internet compared to home. I would plug in my ORB drive and write as much Napster to the tape drive as I could (2.2GB @ 5-8MB/second). I’m sure everyone there had the worst connections because of me.

    Great memory for me, thanks! 🙏


  • I’m speaking from the point of view of the app you gave permissions to collect your hardware data. Y’all are talking like I think a MAC is transmitted over tcp. I don’t need an intro to OSI. Those apps use the hardware data to know if you’re using Samsung, LG, Apple, etc and they store large databases of MAC addresses on individuals. They can even build a local hardware profile to see if you sold your device, to whom, and what device you replaced it with.



  • Unless they’re spoofing their MAC address, hardware fingerprinting is much more reliable and predictable. It’s easy to watch a MAC bounce all over the country/world in a matter of minutes.

    At this point in history, it’s too late to implement identity protections. Your profile is already built, stored, and backed up. They even know your deleted edgelord MySpace account and that you unfriended Tom (you monster). I guess if you were born in a ditch without a SSN, and never signed up for anything, not even a house/apartment, you could go under the radar.