Notices by Wuzzy (wuzzy@cyberplace.social), page 3

Very good news: #ICANN is going to define a new special #TLD "internal" meant for use in internal networks only. This TLD is meant to never be used in the broader #Internet. 👍

I hope #router vendors will now react so that those hacky config #domains like "fritz.box" will be replaced with something that ends with ".internal". Those hacky domains always left a bad taste in my mouth.

It's not 100% official yet but the chances look good.

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/root-system/identification-tld-private-use-24-01-2024-en.pdf

#networking

List of #Mastodon instances ❌ #blocking ❌ #Threads.net:

▶️ https://fedipact.veganism.social/

#Fedipact #defederation #Meta #Zuckerberg #blocking #interesting #TodayILearned

A good first day of talks at the #37C3 so far. 👍
Just finished watching "SMTP Smuggling". Looking forward to "Breaking 'DRM' in Polish Trains" in about 10 min.

▶️ Live-Streams: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3

There's one thing in #LGBTQ+ #news that annoys me to no end: The #narrative that anti-LGBT+ #hate groups use the word “#groomer” as a #slur.

It’s false. They use the word, yes, but not as a slur. When they call us “groomers” they mean it literally. They’re saying we’re out to harm children. This is much worse than a slur. It’s #slander, used as a weapon to justify collective punishment over imagined #crimes.

Fight the “groomer” narrative because it’s #bullshit, not because of the word itself.

I called it! 🤦♂️

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/10/russian-tv-turns-lgbt-rainbow-into-grey-cloud-in-k-pop-music-video/

https://wuzzy.neocities.org/comic/468/

#queerphobia #homophobia #biphobia #transphobia #LGBT #hate #NoseEars #Russia #rainbow #cringe

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

@PaulaToThePeople Sadly, stories of aces who were pressured into sex not neccessarily by their partners but society in general are too common. I think this is a much bigger issue than consent because it calls into question our view on sex in general.

Being sexual is expected from us and this is a problem.

IMHO sex should be seen as optional, not as obligation.

My "red line" was about consent, not about the broader view on sex (which is much trickier).

@PaulaToThePeople Umm, now we're splitting hairs and this is getting confusing. Can we just agree that pressuring people into sex is not OK?

@PaulaToThePeople Well in my view consent is a strict binary: Either you give consent or you don't. There's nothing in between. If consent *was* spectrum, there should be something like a "50% consent" or a "75% consent" etc. and it seems to me this just needlessly complicates things. If a person has sex who only gave "half consent", was it "half a rape"? It doesn't make sense.

When in doubt, assume that consent was not given at all. Better safe than sorry.

@PaulaToThePeople I disagree by the way that if you're ace and don't know it yet you will automatically engage in sex if pressured enough. I think it depends on the specific person.

As for me, I was affected by allonormativity and (falsely) bought into all bad sex stereotypes. I thought I was hetero but I never got around to actually have sex. It sucked because it made me feel bad but eventually I accepted I'm just ace and all bad feelings went POOF. It was quite liberating.

@PaulaToThePeople When there is no consent or consent was violated. Examples:

* You said "no".
* Your body language clearly signalled rejection
* You said the safe word yet it continued
* You said "yes" but were threatened, trapped, in danger, etc.
* You gave consent at first but revoked it during the act but it continued anyway against your will
* When it was ambigious/unclear. In that case, it should be assumed as "no consent" to be safe

@PaulaToThePeople This doesn't make sense. If I don't want sex (I never want sex), I can't say yes and also "mean it". I clearly did not mean it in this situation, since I didn't want sex.

And no, having sex with people against their will is never OK. I am the last one who would defend rape culture; I would only harm myself.

I mostly agree with you; all I'm saying is that I view as consent as an "all-or-nothing" (the default being "nothing") rather than a "spectrum".

@PaulaToThePeople You literally said "Rape and sex are a spectrum." and I strongly disagree with that sentence specifically.

I *do* agree with that it takes more than a simple "yes" for proper consent tho.

@PaulaToThePeople If sex and rape are a spectrum that would have terrible implications.

I think there should be a hard red line when it's becoming rape and that red line is called "consent". I have no idea how there could be a "spectrum" of consent. Either you have it, or you don't. A "half consent" does not exist. A "consent spectrum" sounds like a great way for rapists to argue themselves out by misinterpreting words.

@feditips @MastodonEngineering Unfortunately, Crowdin is proprietary software so that's a huge downside. 👎

Free software should be also developed by free software tools.

@feditips Mastodon is not a server.

If I had a #Twitter account, I could get #BANNED for defending the use of the words #cis and #cisgender (which just means "not #transgender"). And I'm cis myself. 🤦

In other words #ElonMusk may have accidentally declared war on 99% of the population, including himself. 🤣

#fail #cringe #BirdSite #VogelRIP #bigotry #CisIsNotASlur

@ghast Very pro-freedom of you for being in favor of literally banning completely harmless words because reasons.

@ghast
I also used to think #transphobia is fake but this is only because mainstream media doesn't give you the full picture. Once I started to listen to trans people more and more, I realized my #delusion.

Here's an introduction to transphobia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxqdhZkxCo

#Genocide #denial is not harmless:

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/genocide-denied

Note how the article says the state tried to not only hide the truth but also to punish those who spoke it.