I remember watching the first Harry Potter movie in 2001 or 2002, and being amazed at the universe it opened for us. I was about 15 at the time, worry-free and enjoying high school. By the time the last movie was released, I already had a job (for four years), living on my own, getting ready to move to a new country and face the hardships of life. My generation grew up with these movies, great stories about friendship, courage, trust and finding the magic inside each other. We also learned not to take people at their face values, as the people who seem to despise us might be helping us, while some so-called friends can be treacherous. We grew with these movies and I was happy to rewatch the entire series in less than a week with my ten-year-old niece and her mom and for a few hours be kids again.

Don’t forget to be a kid sometimes.

PS: This didn’t need to be “remade” by Hollywood to tick all the diversity boxes. Now Hermione is an indian while Snape is black. And to add insult to injury, Hagrid is now played by fucking Nick Frost. Can’t wait for this shit to be axed after the first instalment.

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Today marks 10 years since the tragedy that hit Romania, the Colectiv nightclub fire that took the life of 65 young people. Ten years have passed since, and Romania is still barenaked in front of a tragedy.

10 years.

0 hospitals.

Fuck this country.

Remeber when dorks were smart people who used technology in creative ways? Now dorks are just ugly bitches who take photos next to a Macintosh because they’re too dumb or ugly to have an OnlyFans page.

Some people reported that I have some broken links in my RSS feed. Thank you for pointing that out, it’s due to a way hugo works when it’s building sites. I’ve updated my blog deploy script and should be fine from now on. Thanks, frens, for pointing it out!

I wanted to post some older screenshots I had on my Xbox, but it seems that they started to delete automatically screenshots older than 90 days. So keep in mind to backup your data. Womp.

I realized a few days ago that making a mostly static website, I can also make a script that parses the logs for hits on places that don’e exist and that bots usually hit, like POST requests on /xmlrpc.php. And I wasn’t surprised to notice that over nine days, I’ve discovered 196 requests coming from about 90 IPs (for privacy, my server doesn’t log the last block of the IP address). I could publish the list of those classes, but picking randomly from it, this looks like simple malware-infected home hosts, so it’s pretty useless. But it’s a nice to see the URLs the bots and spammers try to access. Here’s a list:

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The story of Clancy is coming to its conclusion. Watch the entire story in a playlist.

Remember the old Chinese Walkman I wrote a while ago? I got its blue sibling and it’s up for a photoshoot! Of course, it sounds like shit, but nostalgia is about remembering cool gadgets, not how good they were(n’t).

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Awesome music, the title song of Forza Horizon 4.

On August 24, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, their operating system which introduced numerous functions and features that were featured in later Windows versions, and continue in modern variations to this day, such as the taskbar, the notification area, file shortcuts on the desktop, plug and play driver integration, removal of the requirement to have a separate copy of MS-DOS, the ability to full screen application windows, native internet integration, raising the maximum letters a filename can have from eight to 255, the Windows Explorer, and the “Start” button which summons the Start menu.

That was 30 years ago.

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Fourth album by Pendulum is out and is a banger. Aside of the older singles that appeared on the Elemental EP and the digital-only Anima EP, the album brings some new tracks as well