awth13 [fae/faer, comrade/them]
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6·2 days agoI was going to comment on that original post that shit like this makes me uncomfortable to even mention I’m Jewish in certain parts of the internet before I noticed the post has already been removed. I hope he stays banned.
2·6 days agoI personally mix all of them depending on what I need the app for. For the 2FA app, I use Obtainium to make sure I always get updates as fast as possible. For most everything else, F-Droid, which prevents me from using proprietary software by accident. If something I know is FOSS is on Accrescent, like the IronFox browser, I don’t mind using that. And Emacs is a special one – the Android port author recommends getting the latest builds on sourceforge and I do that, keeping in mind the security issues.
While saying that proprietary apps are not less secure than FOSS isn’t necessarily wrong, this view of GrapheneOS and Accrescent devs conveniently skirts the issue of software freedom, which I think is a bad approach in the long term. Projects like GrapheneOS wouldn’t have been allowed to exist in the first place if not for the free software movement and licensing forcing Google to keep Android relatively open.
GrapheneOS community mantra is to shit on F-Droid
Just want to make it absolutely clear here that I did not mean to say that this is what comrade AshenWolf is doing or that kit’s recommendation is wrong. I was rather referring to something that happens everytime someone mentions F-Droid in GrapheneOS spaces like their Discord server – they get bombarded with claims that F-Droid is “not recommended” and “not secure” with very few people who claim this being able to explain why.
Nice, I also like FluffyChat.
GrapheneOS community mantra is to shit on F-Droid because “they sign the apks themselves instead of letting developers sign” and “they may take a long time to update packages, which can be bad for security”. These two reasons are mainly why Accrescent and Obtainium get recommended instead, although I’m sure F-Droid being very serious about FOSS is an extra, unspoken source of friction. The claim that F-Droid packages are not signed by developers is not even true for many packages nowadays and, personally, I don’t get this obsession over signing keys anyway. I posted this before but I think Emacs Android README conveys my thoughts on this rather eloquently:
26. Your signing keys are public! You clearly aren't concerned with security. We realize that our signing keys are available to the public, and it follows, to potential malefactors. It does not alarm us in the least: restricting the right to publish upgrades to a software installation to its publisher contradicts the basic tenets of the Free Software movement. If this heavy-handed Android practice commends itself to you, because you hold so little faith in the soundness of your judgement that you may be vulnerable to malware impersonating Emacs, we suggest installing Emacs from F-Droid instead, who, for reasons inexplicable to us, treat their package signing keys as jealously guarded secrets.That being said, if someone does believe that developers signing apks improves security and if this additional security is relevant to them, then Obtainium (with AppVerifier) and Accrescent are the best available solutions today.
12·7 days agoThis is the best answer. As someone brought up among Islam and Judaism, these shallow American takes on religion – which are always about Christianity too – feel extremely strange and foreign to me, and you just put the why into words.
43·10 days agoI don’t want to diminish how bad the situation is in the US but news like this just make me wonder: what about us from the countries where it never was better than the current Trump policy level? You know, Asia, CIS, Africa, portions of South America.
I could never even dream to receive such healthcare and government attention as I hear our NA comrades get. I worked for years to afford orchi and any other surgery is way beyond my means especially with how hard it is to get a job as a trans person – do you want to know how many times I had to explain that I am not “insane” in a job interview only to obviously never get called back? I’ve never seen non-DIY HRT or doctors who actually know anything about trans people beyond the ICD-10 basics if that. I had to change my citizenship to be allowed to change my name and gender marker. Where is my asylum?
2·11 days agoRecently started doing the same, it makes sense to me.
56·12 days agoThe establishment will defend class systems with violence even as they are being deconstructed. There is no saviour for us except us.
magic
The way I see it, HRT is magic but what it doesn’t do is make you someone else. The latter part is what I see many people (including myself) struggle with. I used to hang out in voice training communities a lot and see so many people say “I seem to be doing fine and other people like my voice but to me it still sounds like the old me, what am I doing wrong”, which seems absurd if you really think about it. Of course you are going to sound like yourself and, similarly, you are going to retain some physical features the “old you” used to have. You are you after all and not someone else, and there is nothing right or wrong about that, that’s just how it be.
So when someone says (again including myself) that they will never look like a “cis woman”, I invite them to question where they got the idea of what this mythical “cis woman” is supposed to look like and realise that this idea is fundamentally built from images of other people. The real worry, then, is expanding this idea to include yourself (if yourself wants to be a cis woman anyway) and HRT happens to help with that a lot.
There are reputable DIY labs that ship worldwide.
I thought you had to change them almost monthly cause they get “cored”?
That’s what the “official” sources will tell you but it’s just wasting vials. With proper care and safety checks (checking for discoloration as XiaCobolt said and any suspended particles), people are using vials safely for at least more than a year. That includes me, I do that. I used to fear DIY sources and DIY in general but, being in the same position as you – i.e., with no access to adequate healthcare – eventually jumped the gun and it was the best decision in my life.
What made me finally choose DIY is partially the realisation that “official” doctors don’t know shit about trans experiences, commonly prescribe harmful or ineffective regimens – both happened to me in the past – and mostly just don’t care about us more than for a curiosity.
What is the new procedure?
more genital stuff
Not that I will ever be able to afford it – I live in a part of the world where there’s no way someone else like insurance will even consider covering it – but I’ve always felt the same way and I feel this even more after years of HRT shrank whatever I had to not really noticeable. I am happy that I did orchi though, not caring about testosterone is nice.
3·18 days agoRussian libs are the worst kind of lib but I agree with this.
In the future I want, questions about the “true number” of trans will be about as meaningful as questions about the true number of Monster Hunter Wilds players. Like, a lot of people played it and last week it was more than this week but next week an update will drop so people will play it again.
Помогите, империя зла заставляет меня говорить на искуственном языке!
P.S. Using the word “horde” in this context isn’t racist since this word comes to English from the word Turkic tribes used to describe several concepts related to their statehood, i.e., the horde is just what they called themselves. In fact, the word is still actively used by the descendant Turkic states, e.g., the residence of the president of Kazakhstan is referred to as Ak Orda – white horde. What is racist is all the negative connotations and associations this word acquired once adopted to English.