I've never known a kid not to have this reaction unless they've been indoctrinated to be prejudice beforehand.

This is a significantly different use case than a secure chat application that most in these comments are discussing. This system is more interesting for the obfuscation of the data, not the secure communication itself which is just x25519 public key encrypted messages. It's the fact that intercepting the relevant messages from actual whistleblowers and informants is made very difficult. It's not a chat application.

I've never had a job where Linked In was useful beyond the company asking me to repost their junk. It's mostly a place for upper management and executives to brag and feel special. Otherwise, it's just marketing materials and spam from headhunters for short term contract jobs mostly and whose bots don't really understand your experience and so the job hunting stuff isn't even useful. I work in healthcare related tech.

I don't think I've ever considered LGBTQ+ communities to be 100% harmonious. I think they have, like many minority communities, only slowly become accepting of subcommunities. I do think they are more if an alliance, than a single harmonious community. And I think the rainbow glag represents that quite well having separate colored lines running in the same direction as we have similar goals. And having the many other pride flags for each sub-community helps to differentiate and allow them to keep their own identities and work on their unique struggles. The major issues are that race, religion, and other social issues also often cause conflicts. And even within communities the differentiation of gender and sexuality has only recently been recognized as closely linked, but still completely different. There still isn't a lot of understanding or good language for sexuality without gender being a hinge factor. Gay, lesbian, and similar terms only work properly if you know the person's gender first, but the terms should instead be more about the target of the sexuality than the source and it's issues like this that cause a lot of the internal LGBTQ+ conflict that shouldn't be there at all. But it's so easy to solve once you accept that gender isn't 100% binary with strict rules and generally isn't constant. It's driven more by hormones and other fluctuating factors than by genetics which only kickstart the probability of gender, not control it. More flexible thinking and less defensive posturing among the communities and focus on the mutal threats has always been difficult and has never been perfectly harmonious nor do I think many of us ever thought it was.

And this way they likely don't have to stop using the information they have, which is worth way more than that since they don't have to admit to any wrongdoing this way.

It's not that you can't at all, it's just that you'd either need to give up a lot of the functionality of a lot of sites or at least reduce the usability of many sites and your browser or configure whitelist and such for every site manually and deal with breaking changes when websites update.

Google is a Reddit partner now, so they probably don't want discussion of anything that removes them from the loop, thus privacy is very limited to "privacy from everyone but Google" or whatever corporate blob is currently funding Reddit. This is why Reddit is dead to me, basically it is now all about profit and communities can only exist if they contribute to that goal.

The title is a little misleading. She didn't resign because of the death threats against her. She resigned because the school's state representative forced them to fire her, but they had no cause, so they had to pressure her to resign to protect the students from defunding or physical attacks on the school.

I also default to they/them. That has been the default for way longer than this "debate" (i.e. stream of hate) has been popular. I'd love to see the people who use "he or she" instead of "they" in normal speech about people whose gender they don't know. I don't know anyone outside of old formal papers from the pre-internet era that use that kind of language.

I'm agender by the way, so not only are pronouns sometimes hard to remember because they don't connect to the way I perceive a person, but i don't even perceive my own gender except when forced to, so take my comments with that in mind.

I mean, that's what late-stage capitalism is all about. It has been predicted in a million writings. Any competition won't survive for long though. Eventually, it will either get gobbled up and merged into the monopoly/duopoly or it will get "regulated" out of existence by those forces hands in the government.

I've been using Heliboard for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren't as good of course.

Yeah, they now no longer censor things like saying that LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill or that women are "household objects" or that all immigrants are criminals (regardless of immigration status). So, yes they stopped censoring hate-speech that far right people don't consider hate speech because they consider those things as accepted facts.

This issue is more likely about the perception that anyone with an interest in technology is a cyber criminal. Same reason that the Bush administration's NSA flagged subscribers to the Liinux forums. Knowledge is power and they believe anyone who wants knowledge is a threat to their power. They'd prefer to go back to the dark ages and die of dysentery than accept women as equal, gay people as human, or brown people as neighbors (which is even more ironic when coming from other brown people).