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Cake day: January 15th, 2024

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  • Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.

    So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough. (Edited to add - if you haven’t tried basic homemade pie crust dough you haven’t lived. It’s not sweet, it’s just good.)

    I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.

    If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.
















  • This will likely change after Durov’s arrest, but it was nice while it lasted.

    Why use a tool that relies on the goodwill of the operator to secure your privacy? It’s foolish in the first place.

    The operator of that tool tomorrow may not be the operator of today, and the operator of today can become compromised by blackmail, legally compelled (see OP), physically compelled, etc to break that trust.

    ANYONE who understood how telegram works and also felt it was a tool for privacy doesn’t really understand privacy in the digital age.

    Quoting @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip :

    Other encrypted platforms: we have no data so we can’t turn over data

    Telegram: we collect it all. No you can’t know who is posting child abuse content

    And frankly, if they have knowledge of who is sharing CSAM, it’s entirely ethical for them to be compelled to share it.

    But what about when it’s who is questioning their sexuality or gender? Or who is organizing a protest in a country that puts down protests and dissent violently? Or… Or… Or… There are so many examples where privacy IS important AND ethical, but in zero of those does it make sense to rely on the goodwill of the operator to safeguard that privacy.