I’m in my 40’s and trans, and ever since I was a child I knew I didn’t fit my assigned gender and it just felt… wrong. Took me a long time to understand this was me being trans and not me being “broken” somehow, thanks to a conservative upbringing, but basically I’ve known all my life.

“It ain’t honest work, but it’s much”

If you want to protect your privacy against viewers of your videos, how you upload them to YouTube makes more or less no difference. With this scenario the question is how much information are you leaking in your content, and that’d cover everything from writing style idiosyncracies to anything that can be used to potentially identify eg. where you live and so on.

If you’re worried about “malicious hackers”, then the question is who are these potential hackers you’re protecting against? Would they be attacking Google or you? If it’s you, then how you upload things to YT is again completely meaningless. If they’re attacking Google and get far enough to actually exfil data, what they’d actually be able to get out of it is anybody’s guess. Using a VPN and a throwaway email is probably good enough in any case.

Who are you protecting your privacy against here?

Because if it’s Google, then why on earth would you want to upload content to YouTube in the first place?

OK, let’s say you didn’t give them your phone number and masked your voice. If you’re not connecting over a VPN or something like Tor, they still have your IP address.

OK, you now use a VPN, but your browser can still be very effectively fingerprinted and that fingerprint could be nearly unique.

And so on and so on. And this isn’t even going into metadata in & about your video files that could be used to fingerprint the system they were done on.

✨ banality of evil 💫

The first time I saw a headline about this, just saying that the Supreme Court overturned “the Chevron doctrine” my initial thought was that I have no idea wtf they did but if the votes went 6-3 I know it can’t be anything good.

Much to my consternation I appear to have been right.

I think that’s just IT jobs in general. I noped out after 15 years, no fucking clue what I’ll do but I can tell you it’ll be anything but IT

I swear we queers don’t spend as much time thinking about LGTB+ people as they do.

Right, I must be “very young” if I don’t think that hurling abuse at others is OK.

Yeah, pretty much figured you were one of the people who thought his behavior wasn’t only acceptable but preferable. In other words, an asshole.

Are we pretending that his various and ubiquitous abusive rants didn’t happen, or that they weren’t him acting like an asshole?

He was never likeable. He acted like a huge asshole, which naturally made other assholes look at him and go “see if he can do that so can I”

“I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your invaluable input, and kindly invite you to redirect your suggestions to a more interested recipient.”

Neither of them is exactly what I’d call easily likeable

I love that it’s something random that started flowering

You’re still trusting that the 1st party javascript won’t be vulnerable to supply chain attacks, though

and internet still works… Mostly

That load-bearing “mostly” is doing a lot of work here.

I invite everybody to find out how everything “mostly” works if you disable “most of” javascript – also have fun deciding which parts to enable because you think they’re trustworthy

✨ freshwater fish 💫

Yeah that’s totally understandable. It’s just so scummy that suits know they can fire people for some idiotic whim like the current “AI” craze, and then when it inevitably blows up in their faces they can rehire the folks they just fired and for no extra cost because they know people will be desperate. Small wonder they didn’t cut your pay.

So your compensation effectively didn’t change at all, if you’d have gotten the raise anyhow?

Damn.

Loquunturne Latine in ‘Quid’?