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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I am a hobby photographer, I do post to pixelfed, but I won’t link that account on my CV, however I do maintain a personal gallery on my own domain, it is not indexed by google, I don’t want it shared all over the place, but I have added a link to in on my CV under hobbies.

    I just export galleries from digikam, upload them, and add them to a custom page with pure HTML and CSS so it looks nice.

    I have had several interviewers bring up my photos and gallery and be quite interesting.

    I love that it has zero ads and every page loads immediately. There is zero SQL lookups, zero analytics and once you try it, and then go back to the normal modern web you realize how slow everything is.







  • Swede here, a doctors vist costs 300sek, though any public medical cost above 1450sek is 100% covered by the government.

    This includes prescriptions, hospital visits, and more.

    Back in 2019, I got mycoplasma, I was out of work for 1.5 months and stayed in a hospital for 3 nights, I paid 500sek or so for the hospital stay, this included hot meals and medication.

    I got sick pay from the government, and got back all vacation days I burned at work.


  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldDo you have an enemy?
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    9 days ago

    Nah, I have enough problems.


    However, one of my former classmates and former friend, has fallen completely off the deep end.

    She has been to prison for stalking, harassing and making other people’s lives hell.

    Aparantly bith her mom and dad helped and supported her with her actions.

    There is a long thread about her specifically on the infamous Swedish forum Flashback, this thread documents her escapades which includes, screaming at neighbors, making threatening gestures toward people, seemingly trying to run down people with her car, extremely excessive texting, general obsessive behavior, screaming at homes and offices and more.

    She was evicted from her apartment for making her neighbor’s lives hell, so she moved into her mom’s apartment, in the same area, and they have been evicted as well.

    Her dad is dead, but used to help/support her in her actions.

    I don’t particularly want to risk meeting this person as I don’t want her to latch on to me.

    No, I won’t link to the thread.


  • I saw a Defcon talk about SIM cards a few years ago, really interesting stuff.

    Most people treat SIM cards as just an ID to get on a carrier’s network, but they are soo much more.

    When SIM cards were developed, they were designed to be the core of your phone, your handset would be just that, handset that would only run the software on the SIM card.

    SIM cards are small computers, they have a CPU, RAM and storage, they can run apps on the SIM card itself and only present the UI to the phone.

    With my first phones, I remember the contacts being stored on the SIM card itself, it usually took 30-60 sec to load them after a phone restart. But bloody convenient when switching phones, this was way before iCloud and other similar services, and moving your SIM card moved all your contacts as well.

    Since SIM cards are controlled by the operator, they can do stuff that might surprise you, they can act as a trusted source for signing/encrypting/storing data, the user does not have direct access to tamper with the chip, so security apps have been developed to run on SIM cards, I don’t know the current status on this, but in countries with limited/older infrastructure, this was used for bank security apps, since the SIM is a locked down system, you can use it to securely store a key, and have the SIM use the key to generate a token, sign requests and even encrypt data, all without the key leaving the SIM.

    Here is the talk I mentioned:

    https://youtu.be/31D94QOo2gY








  • I don’t have one as dramatic as yours, but a month ot so ago, I was on the bus to the office, I had my Bose headphones on and was half asleep with closed eyes.

    The bus were stopped, and I suddenly noticed an acrid smell, like burning plastic.

    I opened my eyes and saw the interior or the bus filled with a haze of smoke.

    The doors were open and the last few other passengers were spontaneously evacuating.

    So I knew I had to leave and got out in 5 sec.