Captain Aggravated

How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

I agree, a machine for doxing people in general is misanthropist, a machine for doxing men specifically is misandrist.

The article linked above asserts that it was a “legacy portion” of the database that got leaked, and that all the leaked data is from February 2024 and earlier. So this vulnerability apparently existed for at least 18 months. The timing of the leak coincides with a spike in popularity which brought wider attention down on it, and finally someone without the desire to implicitly trust it gave it a look.

Which says to me that in the few years this app has existed, it was never scrutinized, not by anyone on the dev side and not by anyone on the user side. That’s fascinating to me.

I was today years old when I learned that Ashley Madison is still in operation

Yeah, and the US Marshall’s service said Operation Flagship was just a football sweepstakes.

Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

Do they even still issue them? Like prior to ~2007 Hotmail was THE free email to have before Google, like, did it better. But aren’t they issuing outlook.com addresses now?

• Decades of anticompetitive monopolistic practices
• US government backdoors
• Spyware
• a price tag

please tell me you did not just use ted bundy to describe what you think women like in men?

I did, because he was. Two different ways.

1. Bundy’s modus operandi was to approach women in public as a handsome, charming stranger. I’m pretty sure women like handsome, charming strangers; the entire female dating strategy seems to be geared toward attracting handsome, charming strangers. Ted Bundy was able to attract dozens of victims like that. There’s an inherent danger in attracting strangers, because sometimes strangers are psychopaths.

2. Ted Bundy got a LOT of fan mail from women while he was in prison. Love letters, marriage proposals, nude photos. A shocking number of women saw his picture on the news alongside words like “murder trial” and “death sentence” and said “That’s the man for me.” He pulled some weird stunt to “get married” and he fathered a child from prison. This isn’t unique to Ted Bundy, lots of mass murderers and serial killers have groupies, from Charles Manson to Dylan Klebold.

i said doxxing should be avoided, if you’d read any of my comments.

You came across as pretty lukewarm to me. “Yeah doxxing is a problem I guess.” You can’t have a Don’t Date Him Girl website without doxxing. Doxxing is how they work.

Well, we know what to bait a honeypot with. “Gossip about/slander men right here! To prove you’re a woman, insert your photo ID, bank details, credit card information, finger prints and retinal scans.”

I have the solution. Nobody’s gonna like it, everybody here is gonna scream at me about it, but I have the solution.

Stop dating strangers on the internet.

The entire personals site/dating app experiment we’ve been running for the last quarter century is obviously a categorical failure. Humans just don’t work like this.

Things have gotten so much worse since I was in high school. When I was in high school, the community of girls available to me to ask out were pretty much all girls I’d known since we were 5. A lot of them, I didn’t have to wonder about their character, their intentions, their capacity to do harm, I was there when all that was written. I remember how much of a bully Chelsea was in middle school, I remember how nice Ashley was to everyone, I remember how Justine seemed weirdly infatuated with me in the 4th grade. They’d all remember stuff about me and the other boys. We graduated high school, I never saw 80% of them ever again, and within 5 years that figure climbed to at least 95%. Four years of college with mostly abject strangers who you’re weirdly fast to form and break deceptively deep bonds with, all of whom I’ve also lost track of, and then the adult world in which everyone including you is an NPC.

I happen to be the exact age where, I got out of college in 2007, I disappeared into work, like I went to the airport and I went home for two years. In 2009, I looked back up and everything had CHANGED. Instant messaging was on smart phones now, and you WERE NOT TO approach women in person, only through phone-based dating apps and you had BETTER FUCKING NOT already be acquainted.

Don’t talk to women at the grocery store. Don’t talk to women at the gym. Don’t talk to women at the library. Don’t talk to women at your work. Don’t talk to women at their work. Don’t talk to women at the coffee shop. Don’t talk to women at the bar. Don’t talk to women at the club. Don’t talk to women. No woman, only app.

How do you meet more women? Oh that’s categorically the wrong question because having the goal of meeting women in the first place is creepy. Stop wanting to meet women and instead organically decide you want to do things that women happen to like, and then accidentally meet women in the course of doing those things. You know, at those meetups that are always happening on a recurring basis, that aren’t advertised to happen at a place and time and then no one shows up and the listing is never re-posted. Probably just install more apps.

It’s been women driving this, men vastly prefer asking women out from within their social circle. The pressure to make the first move is still on men, and he’d rather ask out women he already thinks he might like. Women on the other hand vastly prefer to be cold approached by a charming stranger.

I think it’s gone far enough when we’ve got women saying dumb shit like “Systematically doxxing and libeling men is a risk we’re just going to have to take.”

You could easily convince me that it was a brilliantly executed honeypot. It’s just too damn poetic.

“It’s a women’s safety app” No it wasn’t. This app was about women’s safety as much as the recent payment processor porn game censorship bullshit was about child safety. This was about slandering men for fun because women love gossip. The app’s name was “Tea.”

Not a single woman who signed up for this app stopped to think, “Here’s a brand new app, just came out, has no track record, no reputation. I don’t know who runs this. I don’t know how they secure their database. I know what they’re asking, they want a picture of my government-issued ID. We’ve spent the last two decades reading news headlines of the pattern “tech company was hacked, 2.2 million users compromised including emails, home addresses and SSNs” on a weekly basis. There hasn’t been a week gone by since Dubya was president that hasn’t happened.”

The women who uploaded pictures of their IDs to some app really had their own safety in mind. Turns out you can short circuit that whole process with hilarious ease if you say things like “women only” and “slander your exes.”

I don’t think I could have constructed a better example as to why all the recent “prove your identity” shit is comprehensively retarded.

Sounds like they want to lose those customers.

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“WiFi goes down”

Or more to the point, the ISP fails. A Wi-Fi router isn’t that much more difficult to power than a meshtastic node, but my old ISP, I don’t think they even bothered to install UPSes, if the power was out, so was the internet. I could keep my Wi-Fi up indefinitely, but it’s basically useless outside my house.

Isn’t LoRa proprietary? Like, Meshtastic is open source, but something about the radio itself is proprietary tech?

Feminism increasingly displays an in-group out-group dynamic characteristic of religions.

They’re increasingly dogmatic with their teachings, a feminist will spout party lines without thinking about them precisely the way a christian will.

A god hasn’t emerged yet afaik but a canon of saints is emerging, to include Marie Curie and Amelia Earhart.

Unironically yes, who else has any use for International Women’s Day.

They’ve even got unhinged extremists, like these assholes in Australia.

Feminism isn’t a religion?

Funny thing about Wi-Fi, it overlaps with an Amateur radio band (the 2.4GHz spec does) and so hams are allowed to run Wi-Fi with no encryption but a tremendous amount of power and high gain antennas on like the highest channels.

I think I would make an exception to that law for a panic button or other emergency device that only transmits when activated, like a ship’s EPIRB or an aircraft’s ELT.