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sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Do you think perfect opsec is a realistic target for your average human being (especially outside the tech bubble) or did you just want to victim blame?

The fact that twitch streamers still regularly get their addresses leaked despite taking appropriate measures shows how impossible of a standard this is.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
I'm not sure what reality you live in, but I had decided long before I told anyone at work and they still kept misgendering and deadnaming me regularly without me magically getting them fired. The only solution really is to switch jobs and never tell them your prior name.

The only exception to this is very obvious malice. Everything else is more likely to get you fired if you complain to HR than them.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Gab is simply irrelevant in the big picture.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
If you had any interest beyond repeating hearsay, you could have stumbled upon keffals addressing this head on.

Attempting to associate LGBT people with pedophiles is as old of a smear tactic as gay people being visible in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqJddReAjg
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Then why are they still hosting several sites that people complain about it all the time too. Cloudflare loves providing services to Nazis as long as they don't get themselves associated with mass shootings too often in the same small time window (8chan) or your Infosec hire turns out to be associated with some of the Nazis who claim they have inside help to stay on Cloudflare. (Daily Stormer)

Infowars is literally on Cloudflare right now.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
All serious guides consist of ordering from foreign pharmacies and then knowing what the things you ordered do.

If you have any information to the contrary I'd love to see it.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
You're acting like "lobbying to make them" is as easy as following a 3-step how to guide.

Think about trans people as a demographic for a second.

We have very little economic power or numbers worth mobilizing for votes. Absolutely nobody has any interest in lobbying for us, corporations posturing to appeal to idealistic liberals (and then doing nothing) aside.

The only resemblance of institutional power trans people have is to appeal to those that have the actual power.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
That is a lie. Nobody is making "bathtub estrogen". It's not that easy to make. It's always been a joke.

Estradiol as a medication is easily available. It is listed on the WHO list of essential medicines and very commonly prescribed to women after menopause. So there's no money to be made there either.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
One could argue that a great many things have been left up for corporations to decide, especially in the US. That is by design.

I would of course also love to see this addressed in legislature, but that seems unlikely given the current political climate.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
No, but Cloudflare and several other ISPs will not drop you simply because a large volume of people complains. This doesn't work like Twitter moderation. The quality of these complaints warrants not wanting those people associated with you.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Do you think legal processes can be flawed?
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
A website that bullies, ridicules and publishes private information of people they do not like, and then pretends they're not culpable when awful things (suicides, swattings) happen as a result because they technically really aren't responsible for them. Not that they don't usually celebrate when it happens.

A trans twitch personality was swatted a while ago and fought back by informing everyone involved with keeping the site alive. They have been dropped by about 99% of the ISPs they've been with (including before that campaign, but now also by Cloudflare).
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Can the targets of Kiwifarms opt-out from being harassed as a result of being listed alongside their address on the site?
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Definitely not all. GFN is by far the most reliable and "native feeling" of these, but not just giving you a generic Windows install with some persistence is what makes it not worth it for me.

I guess it's not trivial to get such "floating" windows licenses and prevent people from mining with a mouse jiggler?

Though I did subscribe to the 3080 tier for a month when my gaming machine was out of comission.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
Maybe you should look up the main author of age.

(Hint: he owns the Go stdlib crypto packages)
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
There really wasn't any other reason but marketing for buying out the Keybase team, was there?
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
It was hugely popular before being free. The problem was that some basic options for the classes that were strictly better or required for gameplay (the worst offender here is likely the Jackal[1]) were gated behind days of grinding or microtransactions. Newly introduced options usually had some severe balancing issues. The core audience and biggest advocates for the game were people that played Tribes and Tribes 2 decades earlier - they didn't really like that they couldn't buy the game outright and have all the content in it unlocked at a reasonable pace.

[1]: https://tribes.fandom.com/wiki/Jackal
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
The out of the blue update actually fixed the game substantially, but unfortunately it seemed to have been a last ditch effort and leadership at Hi-Rez (which probably boils down to Erez) lost interest entirely when SMITE suddenly became very profitable.
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
While it wasn't perfect, I really enjoyed the brief existence of Tribes Ascend. It makes me hopeful someone else is going to pick up the genre, maybe even the license.

Hi-Rez certainly weren't a good fit for the game. I'll know better than to spend money on anything they're doing in the future.[1]

[1]: https://www.maxlaumeister.com/articles/rip-tribes-ascend/
sascha_sl
·4 years ago·discuss
PowerToys Run is Wox.[1]

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run#attri...