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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I would argue hipsterism is actually deeply Midwestern. The spread of hipsterism happened because New York is a city that always has a massive population of slackjawed Midwesternern graduates “doing their five” and acted as a mere incubator, fully unleashed when the Great Recession sent everyone back to the cornfield. This is why Austin became the place to be, it has a more comparable car-based lifestyle to Waukesha.


  • I’m pretty sure they are just VERY aggressively matching on window size + tor. It matches different tor browser versions as the same (a possible false positive) fullscreened on the same hardware, but fails when the window is arbitrarily resized between hits, so just arbitrarily resizing the window defeats it. Seems like a cool marketing trick, because how many people are hitting this vendor site with tor per hour, and when the CMO uses tor to hit this twice, fullscreened, it will look like magic. IRL, they would be matching every user with similar displays, assuming they are running fullscreened. Tor browser used to mitigate this with a random border, but I think they switched to a set of possible sizes and corral everyone into those to increase the number of users on any given window size or something.