I saved this when you initially posted it but now I have so much saved junk its very difficult to find. I have some (good) thoughts but I need to come back for that. Will update this post when I get a chance. This is very cool.
Also, no idea how you've done it but your website is completely unscrapped by webcrawlers. Even searching for the exact title of this post doesn't return any results on DDG, Bing, or the evil empire. Well done.
Ah, I always assumed it didn't actually do anything. That would be a very 4chan thing to say; "download this widget to totally pwn the man" and it doesn't even do anything haha.
Oh man I forgot about LOIC haha. Did that actually do anything?
Yeah my code is a disaster!
No, you get spam because the email protocol doesn't stop spam. You could create a new email address but then you have to give that to everyone who might not appreciate yet another contact method they have to remember for you.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure DeltaChat uses PGP, which leaks all of your metadata to your email provider, ISP, and governments. It isnt private but is secure.
These days the best thing you can do is use Signal.
Cool concept but really sucks if you're the only recipient using DeltaChat. Plus it comes with all the privacy drawbacks of email. And I get tons and tons of spam so anything I actually care about is quickly buried.
One summer when I was a teenager, my friends and I decided to take a road trip to the next town over. We packed up my old beat-up car and set off, eager for a day of adventure and mischief. As we cruised down the highway, windows down and music blaring, I couldn't help but feel a sense of freedom and excitement. Little did I know that our carefree jaunt would take an unexpected turn in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
You got lucky then. Late 80s and early 90s were peak Satanic panic. It ruined lots of us 90s kids.
Same here. Raised by fundamentalist catholics. Its funny you mention pumping gas though haha. I couldn't pump gas because my cousin did once and got soaked in gas. I learned decades later its because he wasn't supposed to pump the gas but did anyway when no one was watching and squeezed the handle as he pulled it out of the pump and sprayed it everywhere.
I couldn't play Magic: The Gathering because you "summoned" monsters and that meant summoning demons to my mom. Same story with YuGiOh and Pokemon.
Halloween was the devils holiday and was a somber affair. I wasn't allowed to go trick or treating until I was like 10 or 11 or something. I think I eventually wore them down.
Harry Potter was the work of Satan and was going to force me to be wiccan and eat babies or something. I literally had to read it in secret like Harry studying magic with his aunt and uncle. My parents weren't abusive like Petunia and Vernon, but I related a lot to Harry's oppression.
I had several straight crushes in middle/high school that I wasn't allowed to date or even really talk to.
There's probably a lot more that I've finally been able to forget.
That's not even getting into all the abuse I endured as an LGBT teen.
You know, I've heard a lot of good things about Helix; if it gets more people using modal editors then I'm all for it. Personally though, I haven't seen a convincing reason to leave Vim yet.
The biggest reason though is that my editor works literally everywhere. Even without my custom vimrc, vanilla vim is hugely powerful, and to have that on every random server I need to access is a gamechanger for me. Even if all you have is Vi, you still have a very capable editor available.
I mean uh.... Crushed by a boulder! Which on Lemmy means you'll be downvoted into oblivion until they run you off the instance haha.
I'm glad you find my abusive childhood funny. My dad used to beat the fuck out of me but that wasn't the topic of conversation.
Its great you had a good relationship with your dad, really. My dad gets real fuckin dodgy whenever I confront him about it and all he can say is "at least I never hit your face".
Fuck you.