Astrophysicist

A botnet implies a level of control over the compromised device, normally achieved through exploits. A residential proxy is done through taking advantage of technically naive users, rather than exploits (proxyware, sort of like spyware/adaware) and doesn’t aim to give control over the target device just over their internet connection. Botnets are run by individuals/hacking groups, and residential proxies are provided by “legitimate” businesses. In theory, they can both be used for the same purpose of DDOSing a target, but as most residential proxy resellers try and position themselves as legitimate, they are less likely to support a client that is using their service to DDOS people

TIL, Wagga has a beach

It’s a substack post infested with TERFs in the replies

Here’s the thing about being trans. You’re exposed to transphobia since the first time you ever hear about trans people, often long before you understand yourself. And that transphobia impacts us all. We all internalise it to some extent, and undoing it is the work of a lifetime. Simply recognising it isn’t enough to make it go away, there is still a journey you need to go through.

One of the consequences of that is most of us find some way of invalidating ourselves. Some way we don’t fit the “ideal trans person” narrative, and instead of simply noting it with interest, we flagellate ourselves over it.

For me, it was femininity. I’ve never been feminine, I have no draw to it, no sense of connection to it, or a desire to express it that was denied to me. To me, it just felt like something I could fake if needed, just like masculinity. And then I look at all of the trans women around me, revelling in their femininity, talking about their experiences when they were younger and were looking for ways to express it etc, and here I was, with none of that. It made me wonder what was wrong with me for a long time.

You can get through it though, I promise. The point of transitioning is to live life on your own terms, and if you’re doing that, you’re doing it right, and your brain worms will catch up eventually :)

It’s your instance blocking it, not the community. You are on piefed.social, which doesn’t allow NSFW content.

This reads like an AI assisted comment

I just restarted it, and federation has kicked off again. New content is coming in, and old content should catch up over the next few hours

You should be prepared for the possibility you may need to. You will probably need to change your jewellery though as you get growth even if you do keep the piercings.

I ultimately let mine go before I started HRT, but mine had never settled down and fully healed, so I didn’t want to deal with that whilst HRT was doing its thing.

The only reason I don’t use Niri or Cosmic as my daily driver is because is because of the lack of HDR. I won’t touch Hyprland either, so at the moment, I’m just waiting for cosmic or Niri to get HDR.

Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it’s quite managable if you’ve got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).

And once you’re up and running, it’s easy.

As I said, that’s how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!

Don’t look at the URL… It’s an even bigger spoiler

I started with arch and moved to cachy a few years back. You don’t need Linux experience, just computer literacy.

One lady I met said that one day, in her late 50s, she simply woke up and was a woman. She had no dysphoria before that, no longing or yearning for someone she wanted to be but couldn’t. She’d been transitioned for 5 years or so by the time I met her.

I have another friend who has never experienced dysphoria in a way she would recognise it. Instead, she said that transitioning, and simply exploring her gender in the early days, brought her joy. No envy, no body discomfort, no pain at the assumptions people made about her gender, but instead, happiness when she started to live life on her own term.

And then there was me. Strong body dysphoria from my earliest memories. A strong sense of the life of mine that should have been, and a lifelong longing and pain from the knowledge I could never have it (spoiler - I was wrong about this, but it was how I perceived things at the time)

So, no, there is no amount of dysphoria you need to experience, and you in fact, don’t need to experience dysphoria at all.

My favourite place in the world

To be clear, anyone promoting transmedicalism will cop an instant ban, so it will be hard to find answers to this question

I hope you keep us all updated! I can live vicariously through you! :)

What’s your derby name?!

I used to play before covid, but haven’t gone back since. I still miss it, but I haven’t gone back (yet?)

Edit - It worked for me directly in the default Piefed interface

Anyone in a relationship should have the exact same rights as anyone not in a relationship.

They don’t though. Straight mono relationships have significant advantage. Moreso with marriage.

don’t they have actual problems to address?

You literally just highlighted the problem…