salith @salith@computerfairi.es

"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

Happy agender day to those who participate.. or rather.. those who aren't participating in this gender nonsense. Well done.

On a more serious note;
Agender people are out there, and they're valid. No one owes anyone else an answer to "what's your gender?", it's no one's business *and* sometimes there just isn't one. And that's a good thing.

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Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

Just a PSA - if you normally watch the "no panic button" shorts on YT / TikTok... Today's one is *very* very dark. It really should have some trigger warnings for abusive relationships and suicide.

anyone putting this pattern in a beat saber map should be banned from beatsaver and never be allowed near a map editor ever again, i just clapped the fucking shit out of my controllers hitting one

In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

Don't let a minority of bigots and transphobes persecute those who need medical help. Please sign if you live in the UK.

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

Protonmail is cop friendly. Any reasonable privacy aware email provider would hash the secondary email, not store it as cleartext. I implemented secondary email hashing for Riseup to prevent exactly this thing, over a decade ago.

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

1. Microsoft buys Japanese studio Tango Gameworks
2. TG releases Hi-Fi Rush
3. HFR is nominated for and wins several awards
4. HFR sales extremely well
5. MS executives praise game
6. MS posts 17% year over year revenue increase in 2024
7. MS layoffs entire studio

???

baking soda

tl;dr: please check that both options in settings > privacy > phone number are set to "nobody"

if "who can find me by my number" is "everyone" (the default), signal will reveal the association of your account and number to group members who already know your number, which, considering the possibility of schools collaborating with police and providing student info, may or may not be a plausible way to de-anonymize you!

#signal #signalapp