Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀ 🦘​

On would i pay to re-subscribe [having opted out from another renewal recently]:

I honestly don't know, it's a matter of frequent self-debate & contemplation. I want Oz to have strong vibrant viable non-RWNJ non-sociopathic media, but perversely i do not like the direct user-pays model [& i abhor advertising], fervently believing instead that media should be generically funded by general tax revenue allocated for such purpose, as a national good. However i also know that's something way beyond my, or your, personal capability to achieve.

On any final remarks:

I realise my responses will be discouraging for you, & i'm sorry about that. Pls know this though. I think Crikey is great, & i know that financial survival is an essential concern for you. Most of my negativity you might correctly discern from my survey responses are, tbh, nothing to do with Crikey, & everything to do with my abject depression & sense of irrevocable doom given the climate crisis & biodiversity extinction calamity, as well as rising racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny... yet voters here & OS keep electing fucking RWNJs instead. My overwhelming sense of our existential peril is such that i now feel that almost everything else is a trivial distraction of little consequence. Cheery, eh?

#Crikey #journalism #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #existentialism

Spring & summer brings extreme heat, violent thunderstorms, killer bushfires. It also brings tiny niceties unknown or unthought-of to some peeps, but much prized by others. In this heat, all the jumpers, sloppy-jos, sleeved collared shirts et al are put away, & light sleeveless sundresses or backless tops etc come back into play. That allows the ponytail direct skin access to swish across back & shoulders randomly which, as a very tactile peep, is a delightful sensation. One which i did not have even the slightest possibility of in my life, for the first ~46 years. So, minute insignificant moments like these alert me to the fact that even depressed glass-half-empty Puddleglums can acknowledge & appreciate, no matter its myriad shortcomings, the magic & good fortune of #Transition 20 years ago. Small things signify huge things.

Just took a break from my pooter to heave my corpulent meatsack self to my ensuite to belatedly brush my teeth after brekkie. Stooped over my handbasin, doing the doings, i realised that parts of my face were being randomly splashed, so i returned my mind from zooming along the astral plane to consider what might be happening.

Realised that i'd forgotten to turn the cold tap fully off as i began brushing, that the combo of its consequent partial valve opening, the cooler than usual day, & the local water pressure today had combined to make the resultant waterflow's #ReynoldsNumber fully turbulent, not laminar. Furthermore, the ensuing randomness of its flow in this mode was such that often it was striking the basin drain grate grills rather than falling cleanly thru the gaps, & was rebounding aka splashing. Finally, my stoop was sufficient that my face happened to be in just the right range to intersect with this mild local splashing.

These contemplative revelations pleased me. It was a nice little low-key local demonstration that no matter the pomposity, arrogance, & suicidal determination of the ridiculous human species, the principles of #physics, #thermodynamics, #fluidmechanics, & #chaostheory will always prevail.

But i expect such thoughts regularly cross the minds of most peeps as they do their routine ablutions... 🤷‍♀️ 🤭 😜

#existentialism #misanthropy #ClimateCrisis #science #wearetotallyfscked

I had the germ of an idea to possibly contemplate the merest hint of a vague suggestion of a nascent thought to potentially cogitate the implausible eventuality of looking at #Misskey. From https://fedidb.org/software/misskey i found a non-Japan non-USA server/instance purporting to be in UK, https://fedidb.org/network/instance/quietplace.xyz. To my huge shock, almost disbelief, & certainly disgust, i next found their own instance info https://about.quietplace.xyz/rules.html, in which:

• the top half appears to be in Russian! 😲 🤯
• the bottom half is English, but contains:

Administration is obliged to Comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
User is obliged to Comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
It is forbidden Propaganda of LGBT culture.

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh! 😱
What a despicable instance! Abandoned, with alacrity. Ugh 🤮

#Fsckquietplacexyz #FsckOffPutin 😡🖕

@msdropbear42 Sigh.

The one remaining issue i need to assess is affordability

Well, bummer

Yes i could afford it i suppose, but i do not feel that i want to. The price differential just does not sit well with me.

https://www.drinknimbus.co/products/bulk-pack

$98.10 / 30 L = $3.27 / L

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/779130/woolworths-soy-milk [my usual]

$1.35 / L

ie, were i to change to the Nimbus, even bulk-buying with the "VIP Status", i'd have to stomach ~2.4x greater expense.

Damn.

They're a new business afaict, so maybe in future their efficiencies might have improved such that their production costs reduce. I suppose i might revisit this possibility next year. Still a bit sad about it though...

#OatMilk #Nimbus #vegan #soymilk

Years ago Opera Presto, then later Vivaldi, switched me onto the substantial browser usability improvements from a dedicated second sidebar incorporating customisable #WebPanels. Sadly, eventually, it became too hard to keep faith with the Vivaldi project for numerous design reasons. #FirefoxNightly with #Sidebery became my new home instead, despite lacking that extra sidebar. Much more recently, #Floorp crossed my radar, replete with a Vivaldi-esque WP sidebar, & i was smitten. It does, however, have some issues i dislike, but i tolerated them for the overall good. Then #ZenBrowser arrived, & i had a new love, albeit its unusual WP implementation is less convenient than it should be. Atm both & seem to be heading in design directions less attractive to me, so the age-old quandary continued. Then, a few days ago, i serendipitously stumbled onto this fab project https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, & now i'm as happy as a porcine creature in biological byproduct... with a dedicated second sidebar incorporating customisable #WebPanels. 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️

I learned in fedi-posts/toots that yesterday/today [timezone crap] is apparently the annual Trans Day of Remembrance. I didn't know that, i didn't know there was such a thing [maybe it's a Merkan thing?]. Other times i read that it's annual Pride Day again, but similarly [though in this case yes i have heard of it] i never know it's coming, til i begin reading of it again. I live under my rock, keeping myself alone at home, participating in no LGBTQI community of any kind, not being activist in any way, just trying to be motivated enough to bother getting outta bed each morning. I wonder if more trans peeps are public & active, or solitary & inactive like me. I admire those with the courage, determination, fortitude, & self-confidence. I know how to spell those words, but that's all. Onya, fellow trans peeps. 🤗 💜

#LGBTQIA+ #Transphobia #Homophobia #Racism #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #GayRights #WomensRights #Misogyny #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #GayRepresentation #LesbianRepresentation #TransRepresentation #TDoR

#Depression #SelfLoathing #SocialPhobia #FailedTransition #PostOp #Transwoman #Unworthy #Nihilism #ExistentialFutility #SuicideIdeation #spoons #PrimalScream

@cheryanne@aus.social The trouble, in a nutshell, is that i can't tell decent peeps from horrible ones, til they react, & by then it's too late. By itself that might not be too bad if one assumed that statistically most peeps were ok about peeps like me. However, the last several years has shown that's not true... the global & national rise in RWNJ hatred & threats of T peeps is terrible, & whereas once i used to assume it would always be only men, the increased presence of TERFs simply makes me feel, like back at the top, that nobody can be assumed to be ok, everyone is a threat. In the three years after my transition, before i grew sick of the awareness that i didn't fit in, the politics was far more benign than now. In the intervening 15 years since i gave up entirely & began my under-rocking, the politics has become demonstrably horrific.

@marqle@mastodonapp.uk @lps @feb , @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net @harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com I still have a couple of #Friendica accounts, & historically had a few others. For me, all the functional advantages Friendica has over other software, including Mastodon, are largely negated by its comparatively hideous lethargy. It is commonplace that sending posts can take several minutes to complete, & even on the best days it can take 30 - 60 seconds, vs nearly instantaneous on my Masto instances. Similarly, incoming posts often lag badly behind what i see in my Masto instances [on bad days by hours]. Given the large majority of my friends & regular interlocutors are on Masto instances, having ~real-time chats with them is nearly impossible in F, but elementary in M. It's such a pity.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/alex-greenwich-equality-bill-parliament-debates/104478232

This particular #PostOp #transwoman strongly disagrees with this bill.

The bill includes provisions to give transgender people in NSW the right to update their birth certificate without undergoing gender-affirming surgery

Mr Greenwich reiterated that every other state and territory has allowed transgender people to update their birth certificate "without removing a sex organ".

JFC Alex, you say that like it's a good thing. Instead, it's bloody ridiculous! I make no comment wrt #FtM, as i'm unqualified & sans-experience, so my opinion pertains only to #MtF #transitions.

With dumb ideas like this it's no surprise to me that #TERFS & #RWNJs hate #transwomen so much. 🙄🤦‍♀️