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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here's the text


Important Online Safety PSA for American transgender people following the US election.

Stop using insecure methods of communication.
Stop using media without a discrete privacy policy.
Stop posting identifying information about yourself.

As we enter into a new government with a hypothetical Republican trifecta, we will likely see the trans community attacked by the state, and sites and services such as Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and TikTok are known to have a great deal of unencrypted information about their users, and have been known to cooperate with law enforcement.

Instead of Discord, try Matrix. Here is a large trans chat on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

Instead of Reddit, try Lemmy. Here are some transgender groups on Lemmy:

hexbear.net/c/traa (shortlink, redirect link on page)
lemmy.ml/c/transgender
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/transgender

Instead of Facebook or Instagram, try Pixelfed:

pixelfed.org

Instead of Twitter, try Mastodon. Here are some trans positive places on Mastodon:

lgbtqia.space
toots.matapocos.dog

Many resources for more secure alternative apps can be found on privacyguides.org
[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Some servers don't do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you're using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.

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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I'm not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI'd as possible if we want linux to grow

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it have a driver gui?

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot

 

Lately I've been suggesting Mint or PopOS for laymans looking to swap to linux, but do any of you know of any good gaming distros with a driver manager GUI built in ala Mint?

I've tested most gaming distros with latest (nvidia) hardware and they do not run most major titles out of the box due to driver issues. If there were a gui for driver rollbacks while having great general performance, I could see it beating out Mint/PopOS for my recommendation. Being able to install .deb files is quite nice for laymans too, though I don't know of any other deb based OSes that run well out of the box.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.

I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3635039

Various thoughts:

  • Around 20 people weren't properly covered by the gender categories, obviously we're trying to be as inclusive as possible and a different approach will be tried next time

  • There were about 600 respondents, which gives us a accurate sampling of the active userbase. If you multiply any number by 3, you'll get a fairly accurate representation of the full userbase each week. This means there are around 800-900 people who don't identify fully as cis each week on this site.

  • Nearly 300 trans/gender diverse/questioning people unanimously agree that hexbear is an inclusive space

  • There was so much data on gender that I was really struggling to find a way to convey the data that wasnt a pie chart, graph, or an incomprehensible kalaeidoscope. If you have an idea on how to beautify the data, you can download the raw data here: https://pad.artemislena.eu/file/#/2/file/xzy4pck8on+oZp9yGRUIezR+/ - I further anonymized this data by removing time of response and any specific comments, I don't think it would be easy for anyone to figure out who is who.

  • There were a couple of text responses that really needed further elaboration, I noted hexbear's rules next to these comments

  • I'll probably be doing a demographics survey sometime in the future, including basic fairly anonymous stuff like "what region were you born in" "where do the languages you speak originate" "would you describe yourself as a POC" "what age range are you in".

  • The percentage of people answering they were cisgender increased by 8% than the previous survey. This could be for a myriad of reasons, such as cis people being afraid trans people will hunt them down in the public thread and assassinate them. Anonymity may have made them feel safer to respond. Regardless, way more people responded this time, which signifies that people felt safer responding to the cryptpad or it was easier to do. The leading question was a bit more inclusive than last time, but I think I'll include both questions (are you transgender / gender diverse and are you cisgender) to see how people respond.

  • We have a lot of people that aren't binary trans on this site.

  • Some of the questions were pretty funky and we got a lot of fuzzy responses on them as a result. In particular "After you realized you were trans/gender diverse, how long did it take for you to begin to act on it?" and "At what age did you begin transition?" caused a lot of friction, I think I will ask more vague questions in the future that lead to a path of more specific questions to capture better data, and to save people time. Questions like "Do you feel your gender transition had a defined starting point?" and some further ones.

  • Around 20 people each week on this site are cis she/hers, which is very low and roughly the same as last time. I feel like if hexbear ever starts hosting other federated stuff (like a federated tiktok or something) and can hook into it natively with lemmy, we'd see a better ratio.

  • I tried to be very sure any data with >2 people on it was clearly legible, I think some people might find it fun that there are others with their same fairly specific classifications per this survey lurking around on the site.

  • Overall I feel like the survey was a success despite some bumps.

  • You can find the other surveys/links here: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455

  • I made these graphs on company time bridget-pride-stay-mad

nerd

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611

You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.


We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.

https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3520611

You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.


We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.

https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/

 

Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

 

I'm calling for https://lemmy.ml/u/Beaver@lemmy.ca, the most prolific user of the transgender comm here on lemmy.ml, to be immediately unbanned and nutomic to be removed as admin. It is good and correct to leak the DMs of transphobes.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml @JoeBidet@lemmy.ml @cypherphunks

edit: you can find more info from kristinas post here and beavers post here

edit 2: proof, also beaver was banned from the whole instance modlong

edit 3: For trans people looking for a safer instance, I suggest Hexbear. They have a very active trans user base and are extremely supportive.

 

If you have no preferred pronouns, just say (none) or something

This will help make people feel more comfortable in this comm and has a side effect of showing you support trans people when making comments in other communities. It will also make reactionaries seethe and make it easier for mods to purge them, and make trans people feel safer all over the fediverse.

 

Hello, if you are transgender and socialist, please make an application below. We have lax requirements, I'm basically hoping to copy the success of Hexbear's trans community. Basic ideas of modding this space:

  • Rule with an iron fist. This is meant to be a safe place for transgender people. If someone is making that not happen / is fucking the vibes, they should be gone.

  • Purge transphobes on sight

  • No leftist infighting. Anarchists and communists can be friends

  • Suggest to cis and trans people that they change their username to include pronouns so no one misgenders them

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3016455

Hey folks, hoping to have a semi-permanent thread for compiling resources to make finding really cool posts easier. Please suggest links and info in the comments below. I consider this necessary because there's a lot of things we would like pinned but obviously things get very crowded quickly. This thread will start sparse and I will edit new things in as people suggest them.


Trans Chemist Series

These posts are done by a Hexbear user that I have verified as legit, offering unique information about trans DIY hrt, including quality sources, sanitation, storage recommendations. Verified by very expensive industrial chemistry equipment.


DIY Electrolysis Series

There posts are also done by a Hexbear user that is making an open source DIY electrolysis setup.


PSAs


Site Surveys


Links

  • https://genderdysphoria.fyi (this link has allegedly been problematic deep into the past, but seems to have cleaned up a lot)

  • /r/transdiy wiki archive : https://archive.md/gDgj1

  • /r/transwiki wiki archive : https://archive.md/OzyAk

  • trans australia : https://trans.au/

  • haircuts for trans people : https://strandsfortrans.org/

  • .Do It Yourself - Hormone Replacement Therapy - Very Basic Information Thread on DIY HRT. https://hexbear.net/post/8763710, guide to using Monero, a private cryptocurrency

  • https://www.transacademy.org/ - Trans Academy is a VRChat group that provides help/community for trans people. Among other things, they do free bi-weekly voice training seminars (in VRChat but also streamed on Discord and Twitch) and make-up tutorials (on Discord), and the classes include content for transmasc, enby, transfem peeps. VRChat is free and doesn't require VR (using the desktop or android app), but you can also participate in most of the class stuff through the Discord.


Webrings and Friends

 

i know people here have a sour taste over hexbear but im so happy to see trans spaces on the fediverse popping off, im so done with corporate social media and its great to see.

love seeing hundreds of trans people vibing

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