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I threw it across the room after 5 pages. Utter crap.

Bon Jovi. Apparently they’re not a one hit wonder.

Sorry, can’t help you there. There’s nothing less funny than explaining jokes, except maybe this joke…

Dutch: Er liep een man in de woestijn en die vond een kameel, maar de kameel vond van niet.

English: A man was walking in the desert and he found a camel, but the camel found he hadn’t.

I don’t know, maybe it works in English too.

It’s from a TV commercial, really annoying, with four guys sitting around a table talking about how cheap the hotel they’re at is. One guy says something like “yeah, only 300 bucks” and the others start laughing and repeating “you didn’t check trivao?”

Not sent but spoken on the phone.

I worked for the tax services on the phone and received a call from a woman who needed to pay back some money, more than she could afford. Before she spoke to me she had been given advice by someone from the tax office she had met in person and they had told her she wouldn’t need to pay back anything. This was wrong, but we were not allowed to say that someone from the tax office made a mistake, even if it was obviously so.

She blamed me, personally, for making her pay back the money and then threatened to kill me. So I guess a death threat for fixing someone else’s fuck up is the stupidest reason yet.

Thanks, I’ll definitely try to mine for the parts then since I’m still completely broke

Me too! Just picked it up again this week after a five year hiatus. I started a new game and I’m at the part where I have to build a base, but I can’t build a ship yet, I think. How did you get around that?

Thanks, that’s good to know! If I do ever decide to release an app, I’ll definitely look into this.

This is something I worry about all the time as well, especially since I’ve started to learn how to code and experienced how easy it is to mess up and send a list with all registered users to everyone opening a page. (This was in a test environment.)

As a user, there is no proper way I know of to verify an app’s security. Most apps are closed source, but even if you could view the code, what would you look for?

Both Apple and Google have a verification process for apps that are published in their app stores, but if these worked, we wouldn’t see this happening.

There are academic researchers working on apps and privacy as well, but it’s not like you can ask them for a report on an app you’re thinking of installing.

I think it basically comes down to trust. Check if a developer has messed up in the past and how they dealt with that, that sort of stuff. And for dating apps there is this interesting article: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/#reducing-the-risks-when-using-dating-apps

It’s a long read (haven’t fully read it myself yet) and it paints a bleak picture, but that’s the world we live in today.

From the article: “Even after completing the tasks with AI, the developers believed that they had decreased task times by 20%. But the study found that using AI did the opposite: it increased task completion time by 19%.”

I’m not saying you didn’t save time, but it’s remarkable that the research shows that this perception can be false.

I started learning Swedish yesterday. My native language is Dutch. I started by reading a pronunciation guide, but (and this is so childish) I had to put the book away for laughing so hard after reading the Swedish word for meatballs: köttbullar.

Today I will make a second attempt. I hope I can keep it contained to a short chuckle.

I just wrote a few lines of PHP and put my posts in a SQLITE database. Simple, built to last and no dependance on others.