salith @salith@computerfairi.es

Just an FYI, if you get a message like this from someone on discord then it’s a scam.

I just got this and it set off alarm bells; why would discord ask someone to message me instead of messaging me directly?

A few minutes of googling and I confirmed that 1) discord does not deal with violations in this way and 2) that it’s a scam to steal your account and likely some money too.

This is how discord deals with violations: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/18210965981847-Discord-Warning-System

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

"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/