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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • My go to answer is to say that I don’t have a mobile phone. Actually, I have one, but it’s only for personal contacts, not for institutions. When a clerk asks me for my phone number, I answer: sure, give me your phone number, I’ll text you my contact.

    Same for administrations and my employer: my boss has my phone numbers but not HR in my company.

    The only institution that has my phone number is my bank, and i’m seriously considering using an alternate authentication method for 2FA at my bank.

    If enough of us do that, it won’t happen.



  • Just don’t believe this is anything new. Back in time, people used to seriously believe in faeries, trolls, deamons, angels and other supernatural phenomena.

    That’s how you could lead people to carry holy wars and consider serfdom and slavery as natural order of things.

    Back in the 80’s, I remember a report from an ethnologist going to Nepal and meeting people who seriously believed that Russians had goat feet.

    If anything, the internet has revealed the credulity of the general population, and provides means to fight and contain superstitions of various kinds.

    I’m an optimist.