Notices by Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer), page 2

@christopherkunz Yeah. Reasonable people can disagree on Pure PQ vs Hybrid PQ, but summoning unreasonable shit-stirrers into the thread is a huge waste of everyone's time and energy.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/T7z8M-wL_2nOpbJtehTqtGYjuWg/

This TLS thread is full of some of the dumbest fucking opinions I've read in a technical discussion in years.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-pq-ciphersuites/

The latest RFC draft includes the ciphersuite I recommend for ActivityPub E2EE :3

@EatingHawaiianP1zza In one of my earlier blog posts ( https://soatok.blog/2021/03/04/no-gates-no-keepers/), which has a very anti-gatekeeping title, I acknowledged that " any group has a minimum gatekeeping threshold necessary for maintaining group identity".

And I think sometimes that gets forgotten in discussions around gatekeeping behaviors.

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

I hate when I miss a silly typo for like 7 hours haha

@chrisvest Nah, I just realize it when people like a post and I suddenly see it

i just finished my second contract with wikimedia
i just started my third contract with wikimedia

@ladytel Sorta like https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/1gjlva4/someone_please_tell_me_where_this_image_comes_from/?

@theresnotime Currently imagining a derg saying "welp"

But then their kobold minion interprets it as "whelp" and is summoned to do their bidding

In the UK at least, physical game stores have all but vanished anyways.

HMV and others basically stopped stocking games, GAME got bought up and vanished from existence.

We've had game departments in larger stores (Smyths being the most prominent), shrinking shelving space in supermarkets, etc, and we've had independent or pre-owned stores like CEX.

All of that will be gone now.

CEX & independent stores will only last as long as the stock does, and if you've been in any recently you know the stock already barely exists.

@ShadowJonathan @soatok it's a damn shame because lobste.rs was supposed to be "better" in part due to its invite system but I guess once one of the bros got in the rest easily followed

@hungryjoe probably

@ctrl Heh. I'm not sure any arrogance can be earned. Certainly not by me.

@WeirdWriter @ShadowJonathan Why would they read when Nanny Claude can do that for them?

It's also really funny when people tell someone with extremely poor self-esteem that they're arrogant, actually.

I think what'a fundamentally happening here is that people on Lobsters (and, to a lesser extent, Hacker News) think I write blogs for them.

Like I want their attention.
Like I want their approval.
Like I want to be one of them.

Nope. I was never welcome in your spaces beyond some notion of "usefulness". You can even observe an echo of this observation in the comment thread.

I am not, and never can or will be, a person of high esteem to that crowd.

So why would I write for you?

I write for my goddamn self. I write to help the people in my own space. Most are queer or furry (and the ones that aren't, simply don't mind that we are). They see me as part of a community, not some jackass on a pedestal that has to adhere to some abstract ideal of noble and/or academic etiquette.

My writing is messy, raw, and real.

What some people call arrogance or condescension is really frustration that, despite a better world being possible, egos get in the way of it happening.

So, lol, no thanks.

Anyway, a domain ban isn't a terrible idea

If I wanted lobsters users' takes on my writing, I would reactivate my account and submit it there myself

https://lobste.rs/s/gwrlsv/soatok_s_informal_guide_threat_models#c_idszhp

I can't tell if the "I was going to backhanded compliment him but couldn't" was meant to be ironic or just insufferable

Ah, I see someone submitted my latest blog post to lobsters and the comments are the usual wankfest of tone-policing.

Hobbyless behavior.