I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 21st 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com/

#travle #980 +1
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https://travle.earth/

[Bracket City]
August 20, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 44
🎯 Minimum Required: 44

Total Score: 100.0
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My first perfect score, keystrokes and all

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 19, 2025 

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My Score: 2070

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

That’s good to hear! I’ve ADBed almost all of the Google & Samsung stuff off my phone already so I’m well used to fighting with Aurora to download certain apps by now. Nearly all my apps are from F-droid as well so that will make the transition a lot easier, and I do a lot of self hosting so I’m not relying on any proprietary services that are going to demand play services be installed. Balatro on my steam deck already steals enough of my time, so honestly if my phone won’t let me install it that’s probably for the best.

Going from One UI 6 to One UI 7 on a Samsung has made me very excited to go get a used pixel or fairphone and install a custom ROM instead. Absolutely abysmal update.

This is another one of the many reasons the online safety acts a lot of countries are bringing in are going to put so many people in danger. Adults can afford to pay for a VPN subscription, kids are going to download the free ones like this and fall victim to blackmail.

ColorGuesser #778

Score: 416/500
colorguesser.com by @kiru_io

#WhenTaken #538 (18.08.2025)

I scored 665/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍554 m - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200
2️⃣📍7.8K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥉107/200
3️⃣📍1.9K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈151/200
4️⃣📍940 km - 🗓️31 yrs - 🥉83/200
5️⃣📍4.0K km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥈125/200

https://whentaken.com/

Terrible today, besides round one.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 18th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com/

[Bracket City]
August 18, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🎖 (Mayor)
❌ Wrong guesses: 3
👀 Peeks: 1

Total Score: 89.0
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RADDLE • Aug 18
90%

MOOSE ╠═┄═════════╣ TRACKS
https://raddle.quest/

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Aug. 18, 2025 

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My Score: 2010

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

Wordle 1,520 3/6

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#travle #977 +0 (Perfect)
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https://travle.earth/

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 17th 2025) in less than 15 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com/

[Bracket City]
August 17, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🎖 (Mayor)
❌ Wrong guesses: 3
👀 Peeks: 1

Total Score: 89.0
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The age verification companies go into more detail on their website but the tl;dr is they want any website with age checks to compare the user’s IP address to publicly known lists of VPN IPs, look for hints such as time of day for if the user is UK based, and then force the user to either prove their age or prove that they live outside the UK.

Which is insane of course. It’s already a bad law as it stands, but if they get their way then even people living outside of the UK would be forced to provide their location to every social media platform they use if a websites automated system believes them to be connecting via a VPN.

I can’t imagine it being very enforcable since Netflix have tried for years to block VPN users with very mixed results & as for geolocation it should be fairly straightforward to spoof that. But these companies get paid by each verification so even if it only shifts another 20% off of VPNs and onto handing over their ID it’s still more profit for them.

At Belfast Pride a few years ago I saw someone holding a sign saying “be gay, eat soup.”

[Bracket City]
August 16, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 👮 (Chief of Police)
❌ Wrong guesses: 1
👀 Peeks: 1
🛟 Answers Revealed: 1

Total Score: 78.0
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