gearlicious.one
🔞 A technical fetishist into heavy rubber, neoprene, flight gear, gas masks, leather, and more!
Pronouns: he/him/drone (it)
Web: https://www.gearlicious.one
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Welcome back!
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I wonder about the different sizes of ball sacks and the precise tuning attained for the ring (empirical evidence). For science, of course 😜
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Which way did you bend the ring?
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🤔 it's partly what's keeping me away from full-time wearing it (the other part is obvious hygiene complications). I've been told Aquaphor can help as well to lubricate (but it seems to mostly delay the effect).
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Dahhmmit bhabby!
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Kind of looks like an early prototype shock collar. Hmmm.
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As an aside, I miss the days of being able to use Pidgin or HexChat (IRC). Much more powerful UIs and user experience.
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It's just a really bloated framework for building cross-platform applications with JavaScript by packaging a Chromium browser in a trenchcoat. Convenient for developers, but trash for end users (compared to a native application).
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Signal still requires a phone number which can make certain threat models cumbersome to deal with (not to mention having multiple accounts). The desktop client is yet another Electron application.
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Very good point. Signal isn't perfect, but the best we have right now. Hopefully Matrix can take the place some day (especially if other platforms keep getting enshittified).
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Signal is presently the best we have.
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"When people don't know what is actually going on, but assume they have metadata privacy, they can unknowingly make risky choices, bringing danger to themselves and the people they’re communicating with. This is doubly true if the Russian government sees them as a threat."
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“If true, this reporting highlights the dangerous disconnect between what many believe about Telegram’s security and privacy features, and the reality," said John Scott-Railton, a Senior Researcher at The Citizen Lab. [...]