Redmutineer75 [he/him]

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Cake day: January 17th, 2023

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  • Crazy to think I was there live when this got leaked. For context: A person on Famiboards (a tech-focused Nintendo forum) was combing through the FTC v. Microsoft case files for potential Switch 2 information, and noticed that some of the pages had an unusually large filesize for simple PDFs. Another user told them that PDFs can have attachments and that Firefox can view PDF attachments, which is where all of these emails were. Some rando noticing “hey, these files are really big” to accidental corporate espionage pipeline.









  • Actually, there’s some evidence as to how ancient Americans discovered nixtamalization. Among pre-agricultural societies across the world, a common method of boiling water before the invention of earthenware was to dig a hole with the water, put a rock in a nearby fire, and drop the heated rock, called a pot boiler, into the water. What they discovered is that if you used limestone, which is common across the Americas, as a pot boiler, the resulting reaction between the heated limestone and water made limewater, providing the necessary alkaline environment for nixtamalization.