C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Same in Belgium, no scale involved, just a handled scanner you bring in the shop. At checkout you give (or put back depending on the supermarket) the scanner, then an algorithm tell you if you’re elected to a partial control (in which case a cashier scan some of the articles, again there are some rules depending on the brand of supermarket - some ask rescan 5 random products, some 10, some explicitly list most valuable items, some require the cashier to count items,…). I say an algorithm because experience show it’s not just random (for example in the supermarket brand I most often go, if you cancel an item on the scanner, you’re 100% sure to have a control).


  • Finished Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. Well I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it’s a good page turner with some suspens and so on. But I was a bit uneasy about the over occurrence of sexual relations described with a too high level of detail. At times, I wondered if I was reading a psychological triller or the scenario of a porn movie… I think this was done in order to describe the horror of the main bad character but it was just too much and unnecessary in my opinion.

    Well I don’t know yet what to read next, I’ll look up maybe here if something please me.

    Edit: I think I’ll go for The Antidote, by Karen Russell. Seems to have some good reviews.