Your average friendly nihilist from Finland.

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • If I login to youtube and click a video, advertisments are mostly female hygiene products, braziers or frozen food products, because wife sometimes forgets to sign out from Facebook or Instagram. There also used to be gaming related stuff, but after my son became “privacy oriented”, those.disappeared.

    I’m guessing that for data brokers we are one singular blob.

    Not sure about how it all effects on blending in.


  • In a way always.

    Whole family is connected to home network and home network has filters and blockers in the outgoing router.

    Additionally home security system doesn’t have to keep connections open outside or have ports forwarded.

    Outgoing router however does not have VPN set, so home network IP is visible. This is to keep everything operational and CAPTHCA from annoying users.




  • One company tried to get rid of me for 4 years. I was hired as a development engineer for a pilot project. Project started slowly and after my trial period the project runner had a stroke and remained on a sick leave.

    Nobody dared to touch the project or bother me. I took it far as I could. After that I had nothing to do and no funding to continue, so i just hung around.

    Project runner never returned and eventually they were able fire/retire him.

    Nobody killed the project, but no funding either.

    Maintenance electrisionists were happy to take me along for the ride and for 3 years I was their “trainee” with engineers salary.

    I learned the trade.

    I even went to talk to the region manager about why I had absolut zero billed work during my time. He just laughed and nothing changed.

    During my fifth year I finally quit. Salary was engineers salary, but still a small one. They were also about to promote me to a department chief in a shit position where all employees and manager had just resigned in protest.

    6 months after I resigned the “stroke victim” called and wanted me keep his project alive, but I had to tell him that the ship had sailed and torpedoed some time ago.