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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • The one it comes with.

    Pulling down GIFs from an external site means you’re decreasing the security posture of yourself and the recipient by at least one third party.

    Personally, I keep all GIFs filtered in all messaging systems and discussion pages. They add little, and beyond usually being privacy invasive, can also be a security concern.




  • What’s changed is people’s outspokenness about their political views.

    The American Left, on average, would be considered well in the middle of the right in most of the world. This has resulted in “far left” in the US encompassing everything from global centrism to far left extremism. As such, using the term is pretty pointless without adding enough context so others know what is included.








  • Executives need to present company forecasts to shareholders at annual business meetings. If they mess up the forecast so the business plan doesn’t match the reality, they scramble to make the books balance somehow — the easiest place to do this is by cutting staff so that expenditures line up with earnings. Modern accounting means that even though they still have payouts to employees, they can count this in a separate loss bucket so that the bottom line item that investors watch still comes out where they “predicted” it would, which props up the stock price, making investors happy and preventing them from replacing the executives.