As a Canadian-American dual citizen, I couldn’t hate tax season more. No Canadian tax software exists that fulfill my situation, so I have to file it manually. My Canadian tax situation isn’t complicated enough to justify hiring a Canadian tax accountant. All the electronically-fillable PDFs require Adobe Acrobat Reader or else all the numbers become misaligned. Adobe validates for Canadian provinces and postal codes so I can’t enter my US state or zip code either. I have to resort to printing the forms out, filling them out by hand, and mailing them in. Everything about this situation is garbage.

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Was this a sane purchase for $30 USD? 2 lbs of frozen wild-caught sockeye salmon fillets. Trying to eat healthier and found this in Whole Foods.

@Fabian I’m getting start up crashes in Nostur on the latest TestFlight build, 1.19.1 (374). I submitted a crash report with “Crash on start up” as the description.

Workouts on Nostr! Watching @⚡️ᗪㄖ匚⚡️ iterate on this app in realtime has been powerful to witness 🏋🏻 View quoted note →

Somehow stupidly fell for an airport taxi scam at JFK after being tired from 24 hours of traveling. Realized what was happening within a minute of getting into the car. Two men convinced me that the subway was down (which would have been $11.40 for me to go home), and then told me to get in one of their “taxis” which was “metered” and would give me a good price. Instinctively, I looked up the price on all the ride apps - ~$75. He tried to chat me up because he sensed I was suspicious, but I mostly gave him short responses to his questions. When we arrived, he asked if I would be paying cash and told me ~$160. I was anticipating this confrontation so I started a yell off with him. He wasn’t licensed and had no meter. I called him out on the scam and I offered to pay only $80 at most. He then countered with $140, $120, and lastly $100. He then threatened to drive me all the way back to the airport I wasn’t willing to pay what he asked and started to drive forward. After calling his bluff multiple times and leaving the car door open so he wouldn’t drive away, he finally got out of his car and hesitantly gave in and popped the trunk where my suitcase was after some more of me yelling at him. I gave him $80 and he stood there in disbelief. I’m pretty mad at myself for falling for something so obvious, but even more so that people like this exist. Regretting that I didn’t take down his license plate. But I’m glad I was able to stand my ground as I’m usually non-confrontational and experience anxiety in these kinds of situations. Moral of the story: don’t trust anyone who approaches you at the airport unless they appear officially licensed.

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New Damus release! Includes the new Conversations tab and some other cool stuff. View quoted note →

My childhood in one picture.

Hong Kong food is next level 🔥

Good afternoon, Hong Kong! 🇭🇰

Downloading the iOS 18.4 beta on airport WiFi is slow af. 9GB download isn’t going to make it before boarding. 🥲

My toxic trait is that I refuse to pay nice hotels $10 to wash and dry each piece of clothing during long vacations, so I end up hand washing and hang drying everything.

Traveling in Europe and Netflix blocked Proton VPN when trying to watch a US-based show. Obscura VPN managed to bypass it. Great VPN so far! View quoted note →

My plane landed and people clapped because we didn’t crash. What a time to be alive.

GM

RIP Skype. View quoted note →

CAPTCHA is becoming more ridiculous these days. It’s not flamingo??

GM

Privacy-protecting alternatives: iPhone -> Google Pixel iOS -> GrapheneOS iCloud Photos -> Ente iCloud Drive -> Proton Drive iCloud Mail -> Proton Mail Passwords and Keychain -> Bitwarden or Proton Pass Notes -> Standard Notes (Proton) iCloud Calendar -> Proton Calendar Do not use Google services as some are not end-to-end encrypted. Self-host if you can and know what you’re doing. My favorite guide:

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