Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

stop hacking and give me snuggles!

Amazon quietly removed a line from its transparency report saying it had "never participated" in the NSA's PRISM program.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/amazon-prism-transparency-data/

The US government is holding American citizens (I've seen at least three cases) claiming they're not citizens and detaining them unlawfully for extended periods - weeks, months, years!

We've seen the US also revoke some citizenships!

I don't feel safe crossing the US border.

https://pix11.com/2019/07/31/u-s-citizen-from-queens-who-was-held-by-ice-for-2-years-speaks-out/amp/

thesis: the internet is a truck

antithesis: it's a series of tubes

synthesis: the tubes have trucks in them

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

I just ran across a good article with illustrations and explanations of different kinds of intersex genitals. It explains how many of the operations performed on children without their consent are unneeded and often harmful. https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2011/04/intersex-genitalia-illustrated-and.html

"We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge that nature provides humanity with a wide range of forms, so that all of our bodies can be recognized as valid. Unless there is an actual rare functional problem, our bodies should not be altered in infancy, and only those functional problems should be addressed. Our genitals should be altered only if we ourselves request it, to make ourselves comfortable in our own skin, not to make society comfortable by our medical erasure. Society must come again to embrace the diversity that is nature's gift to us."

All children deserve to be protected from genital cutting without consent, whether they are male, female, or intersex.

#intactivism #intersex #autonomy #i2

direct to floppy movie release

Urgent: Ban FBI and ICE access to DMV photos https://gnusocial.no/url/1584418

I'm a hacker, just not the type who's good with computers

I did it

My Nintendo Switch now has LineageOS-flavoured Android running on it, fully rooted and with Tusky installed
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@ghostwife@mastodon.social It is still not uncommon to circumcise infants without any anesthetic. Last I checked, at least 40% of infant circumcisions in the US are still done without anesthetic. They are strapped down to a board as they have the most sensitive part of their body cut off. The foreskin and glans are fused together at birth, until a boy is at least three years old. When a young child or infant is circumcised, they are torn apart with a metal probe. Even when some anesthetic is used, it can still be very painful. The videos are horrible to watch.

Even if the operation was completely painless, cutting the genitals of someone who can't consent is wrong. Male, female, and intersex children need to be protected from genital cutting. Only a consenting adult should be able to make that choice for themselves. Along with consent, adults can receive proper pain control, and it is less dangerous than performing surgery on an infant.

@goat@hellsite.site

Have you ever seen a more beautiful child? 💕

Things I miss about games using hardware MIDI - suddenly stopping a game causes the last few notes to slowly fade out instead of the music just cutting off, as if someone suddenly yanked a pianist from their piano.

🎹 💨

Computers make my head hurt. Fuck computers

We should have just stopped inventing new computer things in 1999