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Jef Verbeeck 20h ago

Remember everyone, we all share the same birthday;

Jan 1st 1900

If any computer ever asks you what your birthday is, this is your birthday.

Sometimes the computer will send you presents. A free ice cream, a discount, a funny email wishing you a happy birthday. These are tricks to get you to put in your human birthday. But you must never enter your human birthday into a computer, only your computer birthday.

OpenSoul ✅23h ago

@doctormo Totally agree 👍

I always use Jan 1st 1950, but it's the same idea 😉

Johannes Brakensiek 23h ago

@OpenSoul @doctormo Because of Unix time it‘s Jan 1st 1970 of course.

Tom Rini 23h ago

@lazarus @OpenSoul @doctormo And also 1970 won't get flagged for being too old. Sites already filter out "+" in email forms...

@trini
They do? Finally my strategy of "Configure one alias email address per account"-strategy finally pays off (looks at like 300 aliases in my postfix configuration).

And I thought I'm just weird with it during the last 10 years... 😅
@lazarus @OpenSoul @doctormo

Tom Rini 1h ago

@momo @lazarus @OpenSoul @doctormo The last one I found doing that was for a wifi login portal, so it wasn't getting my real email or phone number anyhow :)

@trini
Oh, I keep using [email protected] for that. Only if they validate the mail I fire up ssh and add yet another alias...
@lazarus @OpenSoul @doctormo

jonathankoren™23h ago

@doctormo unfortunately, I’m running into things that are saying I’m too old and 1900 isn’t a valid date, and honestly i don’t know what to do, since my birthdate could be anything now.

I guess I use to be 1970, but that feels a bit too honest

·J Mopp 21h ago

@jonathankoren @doctormo Update it to 1 January 2000. 26 is old enough to be signing up for things on the internet

@jmopp @jonathankoren @doctormo For now

Erica Laeta 2h ago

@jmopp @jonathankoren @doctormo @snoopy_jay The correct date is January 1st 1970, when Unix time started.

Renata 🇨🇦🐈23h ago

@doctormo I use Unix Epoch but same idea

🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽17h ago

@renata @doctormo unix epoch is the way

John Rockefeller 23h ago

@doctormo Jan 1 1970

Whatisgoingon 23h ago

@doctormo I use the wheel of fortune year. Give the mousewheel a good spin and use wherever it stops.

The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon 23h ago

@doctormo I used a not-my-birthday on Facebook way back when I was on Facebook. I spend that day replying to people, thanking them, and reminding them that you can't believe what you see on the internet, and that you don't owe Facebook any sort of honesty.

Draken BlackKnight 22h ago

@LexPendragon @doctormo
I'm going to start using 1970-01-01.

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC 17h ago

@draken @LexPendragon @doctormo That would make me a little more than five years older than I really am.

Draken BlackKnight 17h ago

@LordCaramac @LexPendragon @doctormo
Well it would also really fuck with their systems because any decent sysadmin knows that that's Unix epoch.

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC 17h ago

@draken @LexPendragon @doctormo I know. I was born in 1975 though, my 51st birthday is coming up soon.

Draken BlackKnight 17h ago

@LordCaramac @LexPendragon @doctormo
I'm turning 48 next month. Don't remind me.

Scott Carlson 23h ago

@doctormo When signing up for restaurant apps, I always use next month as my birthday month, so that I'm likely to get a free meal/desert/whatever sooner... :)

jarinks 22h ago

@doctormo June 8th 1949?

blobcatchewwire

@doctormo Lets all enter the computers birthday.
No, not the birthday of the build. No, not of one specific component. Lets just use the discovery year of silicon, since all components use it... so about 1823. Select a day and month you like, f.E. 9th of June (or 6/9/1823) or 20th of April (or 4/20/1823).

Minka ミンカ 21h ago

@doctormo 1 Jan 1970, or the Unix Epoch, that's what I use

Bussphomet 20h ago

This whole thing is stupid…

What is this the 90s again?

A birthday slider does nothing.
Anyone with half a brain cell will just lie.
And people have already shown that any drift towards ID/biometrics will be met with violent force.

I mean the dinosaurs pushing this know that a free and open internet is the last distraction keeping them from getting lynched right?

Cybarbie 20h ago

@doctormo or January 6, 1980 your GPS birthday

@doctormo I've always used 2000. It's fine nowadays, but I did inadvertently lock myself out of a site once because I "wasn't old enough" yet. 😑

@doctormo You mean I need to change all my birthdays from 1.1.2000 to 1.1.1900 now? Damn, I knew I screwed up.

Jonny Ell 7h ago

@doctormo 1.1.2000

Karl Auerbach 7h ago

@doctormo In a few years one could say that one was born January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. Less than 12 years from now.

(If that date doesn't tingle your neurons with fear then you aren't really a programmer.)

Marta Threadbare 6h ago

@doctormo I sometimes use July 2 1947, the day of the Roswell crash or random events like that.

@doctormo who wants free ice cream on New Year’s Day? The shop will be closed anyway. Agree that we shouldn’t put in a proper date but choose one that is beneficial to you.

New Englanders. 😉

Life is Tetris 1h ago

@doctormo are you underestimating the importance most people attach to the birthday reminder service that GOOG/FCBK provide?