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self ( self@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago

as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

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as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

www.donotpanic.news

self ( self@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago
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The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long Covid
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The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs. If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

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  • Soyweiser ( Soyweiser@awful.systems ) 
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    This has got to be a bit, in my very online time I have never seen somebody complain about &s hell even with the \ I have never seen people go ‘don’t use the backslash’ just people explain to others why the backslash behaves a bit weird (or how you can escape other characters with it, like for example the &).

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      @Soyweiser @self just base64-encode everything then learn to read base64 in your head

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        “I don’t even see the RFC 4648 anymore. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead…”

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        To deter over the shoulder spying my browser converts everything using rot13.

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          For shouldersurfing opsec I’ve switched the keycaps on my keyboard, and now no-one can be certain which keys I’m inputting!

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