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).
Fair enough. That said, consider my comment part of this process. :)
edit: I guess my disagreement with the idea of "forcing others" is primarily that I don't consider companies past a certain size worthy of having a right of free expression.
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.
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.
> In March 2019, Kiwi Farms republished both the livestream and the manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. Shortly after, website owner Joshua Moon publicly denied a request by New Zealand Police to voluntarily hand over all data on posts about the shooting, including the email and IP addresses of posters. Moon responded aggressively and mockingly, calling New Zealand a "shithole country", and stated that he did not "give a single solitary fuck what section 50 of your faggot law says about sharing your email".
The law won’t work here. They don’t care about the law.
Why would anyone living outside of New Zealand care about New Zealand laws? Why the hell would (should?) he hand over private data of some people to the police?
Whenever Kiwi Farms comes up, I see these claims made about it - that people were threatened with violence, that the forum was used to coordinate harassment campaigns, that home addresses were posted, etc etc - but never with any specific examples shown of any of that happening.
Come on now. This is common knowledge and you can easily research it yourself. What you're doing right now is the moral equivalent of saying "nobody has shown me evidence that germs exist" on a COVID-19 thread.
in fact, they actually do do this, don't they? Quite a lot of COVID-19 deniers demanded proof of "isolation" i.e. they demanded someone to show them a vial of pure COVID-19 virus and then somehow prove that's really what's in the vial. And they demanded proof of "Koch's postulates" i.e. that injecting people with the stuff in the vial gives them COVID-19, etc etc.
There's a fundamental difference between being spoken to and being spoken about. You have a right to prevent others from speaking to you but not about you (at least in the USA).
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.
I thought streaming had spelled the demise of torrenting, so was v surprised to check out my local hood (quiet suburban, skewing older few ppl <40yrs) and see how it's very much alive and well. I guess I was naive. (Not condemning anyone, as I did my share of peering back in the day, but streaming services are convenient and honestly don't cost that much all things considered. Torrents (tho I prefer IRC) good for finding obscure stuff that's unavailable anywhere else, but that's not what my neighbors are downloading; and it's not like any of them can't afford to pay. Interesting dynamic.
This showed up in my news feed, and I wondered if it was a coincidence that I just learned about that site from your comment and then the next day I see they're getting spammed by idiots abusing DMCA: https://torrentfreak.com/i-know-what-you-download-overwhelme...
Checked it for my Transmission host static IP which doesn't download anything for a while and it has some completely random stuff I never downloaded or searched for. Even shows items from today which for sure I haven't requested. Could be some DHT spoofing or my Transmission is relaying some DHT requests?
It gives quite fascinating results for me. Surprisingly, among dozens of torrents only a couple are porn. Most of my neighbors using BitTorrent are Russians and Ukrainians (I'm in Cyprus), judging by files names and seeder distribution, a couple of English-speaking people (probably brits) and a single person seeding content in Greek. At least half of Russian-speaking neighbors seed IT, engineering and English learning materials. And I seed more than everyone together on the same subnet Wish I could message them.
Ah, haven’t checked that one for a while. Surprised to find a tech-minded neighbor who has downloaded kali-linux-2022.3-live-everything-amd64.iso. And no pr0n this time round.
Being honest? I use Edge or Brave over Firefox because of compatibility edge cases and battery life. And while Mozilla might be the least bad browser vendor, they're not exactly great and dependent on Google for funding.
The edge case compat issues are rare for me, battery life seems the same, and FF is otherwise such a good, fast browser with nice extensions... I like it a lot more than Chrome now
I don't understand the "dependent on Google funding" statement that everyone mentions. Yeah, they're Google's bitch. But for what purpose? To act independently and make their own decisions, otherwise Google has a monopoly and they're screwed.
No, Mozilla's purpose is to appear to act independently while never doing anything that would upset Google too much. This incentive works even without Google ever even hinting at the funds being conditional on Mozilla being their bitch - someone who makes 3 million a year from a failing browser is not going to risk that setup.
Because you want containers to be able to allocate ports that are already in use on your host. Or at least you don't want that to be a source of errors.
On top of that, you usually want to isolate the container workload with an observable network abstraction instead of granting it full (albeit non-root) access to host network facilities (including sockets).
Try a less clear cut debate topic. One where intuition works against you.
Like the wave of anti-trans legislation and framing of our mere existence as grooming in red states. It's much harder to see the outright wrongness and evil.
It's easy with the Russians. We got propaganda pieces where the message to foreigners is always "we fight nazis in Ukraine" and the message inward is "we fight against having to go to pride parades and having our children turned gay by satanists". [1]
Now trans people? Hardly anyone bothers to read up on us, but we're the wedge anyhow. Even most democrats seem to have little interest in defending us beyond some surface level posturing. This debate solely exists to mobilize republican voters with a heavily framed appeal to their intuition and disgust reflex. We're just the next cataclysmic threat that can only be averted through national rebirth (hey, wanna make america great? again?). Because apparently CRT lost steam.
I think I earned the right to be cynical about both bloodsport-type debates and this "just be like, nice, dude" because the outcome of this debate has a really good chance at fucking up my life.
From the other side of this debate: we genuinely believe what we’re selling, just like you.
It’s not “intuition and disgust reflex”, but research, questions, and genuine reasoned thought that brought people like me to a very different point of view.
I’m not directly addressing the issues we disagree on in this comment - just making the case that I’ve thought through these things in great detail, believe that my thinking is as close to objectively correct and ethically correct as I can reasonably manage, and yet, have likely come to a completely different set of conclusions than you.
I’d probably question your motivations before your arguments. You really can’t deny it is in the spotlight because we have elections coming up and this is a polarizing topic to mobilize voters with. Many of which will not understand any of the nuance.
And then I’d be wondering if your point requires dismissal of wide consensus (or - I have experienced this - sociology as a legitimate field of study all together) in favor of few outliers.
Also, I’m genuinely not sure which conclusions we are talking about here. I purposefully avoided sports and early medical transition and mentioned the DeSantis groomer / libsoftiktok stochastic terror against trans healthcare thing first - because that’s as close to objectively bad as anything related to this topic gets.
VR 7-8 years ago wasn't gated behind a store and large EULA, and the people in charge hadn't announced their intent to not just monopolize and monetize social VR spaces, but also workspaces.
There was still reason to be excited and hopeful about the future of VR.
I'll wait to get excited if the Index is updated. And until then I'll keep using my low res low FOV first gen Vive. Exclusively to hit boxes.
You make it sound like it is all gated behind an app store now somehow. Which is not the case at all.
On my quest 2 headset, I can play games from oculus store, I can also play any steamvr/pcvr games on quest 2 (connected to the desktop PC by a cable or in wireless mode), as well as any user-built application .apk files dowloaded to my headset directly (either from the headset's web browser or transferred from PC). All on the official firmware, no jailbreaking or any special steps needed to make this work.
Not sure how this is even remotely representative of some app store gating.
I’ve read of people getting their Facebook accounts banned and losing their oculus store purchases. But now they use a meta account so that issue shouldn’t happen as often. Because the bans were happening because the attached Facebook account was inactive.
But you could always make a new account and play your steam games
I still prefer a product that works independent of needing to sign in (and share a bunch of data, some of it biometric), but I'm glad they fixed the google-like ban blast radius at least.
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).