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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • What country are you in? If you are in one where college is affordable and you truly enjoy CS (not the same as software engineering) or think you may will; just try it for a bit.

    Live is not all about money and careers and if you are talented enough you will find something after your degree and have fun with it, even if it might not be the absourdly overpaid positions of the past.

    Otherwise, if you already have some experience and are not interested in the acedemic side of computers or can’t afford to “just try” college, (software) engineering is a great place for starting without a degree, be it an entry level position, or an apprenticeship. Although these might actually be hard to find for the next few years :|…










  • In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

    Nice xD