pupbiru

i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience and i don’t mean to diminish what you’re don’t through, but it’s also very important to note that this is far from the normal for the very large majority of people

fear doesn’t help sexual health… all sex comes with risks, and unprotected sex comes with significantly increased risk but the reality is by and large this is not what HSV looks like without other factors effecting it

downplaying risks is bad, but equally bad is people thinking a condition is worse than it is. this leads to more risky behaviour, because if they get the “scary” thing and it’s not as bad as they expect, they can take risky behaviour because they discount all their other education

it also only reinforces stigmas. this is particularly common with HIV-positive people: these days, if you have an undetectable viral load (if you take your daily medications) you can not pass on HIV… however the stigma remains, and people still often choose to not have sex with someone with an undetectable HIV infection (again, undetectable IS UNTRANSMITTABLE)

muddying the waters is very bad at scale

calm, unbiased information is what is required for public health. individual anecdotes about worst case scenarios do not serve to make people’s lives better

i think the .id.au domain licensing rules are a pretty reasonable middle-ground:

https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/the-different-au-domain-names/id-au-domain-names/

The id.au domain name you choose must match or be an acronym or abbreviation of your first name or family name, or your nickname

you have to provide ID to register any .au, so you’re verified as a person, and though they don’t pre-check your nickname, AFAIK if there’s a complaint you do have to prove that you’re “known by” that name

domain names do that for people with well known domain names, and verification processes do that for people without

ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then

and worth noting that by “publicly available” here, it’s not like it’s published on some FAA API: ADS-B is broadcast from all aircraft, and anyone can receive its data… these services run by networks for regular members of the public contributing the data from their ADS-B receivers

ADS-B is public broadcast though… if you’re in range of the plane, you can pick up its air traffic control data (elevation, speed, heading, registration, etc)… services like flight radar 24 don’t work on FAA data: they are a huge network of regular people across the globe with ADS-B receivers contributing everything they see

adding so it’s archived in as many places as possible:

the reg is N628TS, and you can track it with any ADS-B service

ADS-B is broadcast from the plane, and able to be picked up by any in-range receiver… services like flight radar 24 aggregate many receivers across the world run by ordinary people

okay, but pretty much anyone in software knows what CVE means, and anyone outside of software doesn’t need to know what CVE means… it’s almost as common in the professional context as CPU

also jam in there protections for AI training so they don’t have to deal with those pesky rent-seeking “authors”

i’ve never understood why there’s not a good option for using one of the plethora of server management tools with prebuilt helpers for workstations to mimic group policy

like the tools we have on linux to handle this are far, far more powerful

i’d suggest switching out openvpn for wireguard if you can… at this point, openvpn is basically considered legacy

make sure to use a wire guard VPN instead of openvpn