[00:01:23] though I would not be surprised if there are more instances of cis women sexually assaulting people in the restroom in proportion to all instances of a cis woman entering a restroom at all than trans women doing so in proportion to all trans women entering the restroom [00:01:58] even if we control for how some girls don't think it's a big deal to grab their friend's tit [00:10:12] Normalize gender neutral bathrooms [00:10:41] I miss the college building I used to go to with gender neutral bathrooms. It was peaceful [00:11:02] As a transgender North Carolinian I feel like I have to have in depth opinions on bathrooms [00:20:48] I will add that part of why this is a bad defense is that the transphobe view is that trans women are men, and men should not be allowed in womens' restrooms [00:23:26] if the slim chance of sexual assault was the only factor the latter point would sorta make sense but there's a factor that few people consider when arguing on either side: men sometimes have to enter the women's restroom to change their babies' diapers [00:23:41] +1 [00:25:29] [1/2] even if a changing station is present in the men's room, usually they'll assign male janitors to clean who may not fully understand what it is or what it's for and not treat it with the required care. My dad once entered the restroom at a grocery store to see it in the middle of being cleaned and a toilet plunger had been placed on the changing st [00:25:30] [2/2] ation. [00:26:49] That was in Kansas, where if you enter the bathroom for the wrong sex and are caught by anyone in said bathroom, they are guarenteed a monetary reward by suing you because you will lose [00:27:34] that's why people call it a bathroom bounty law [00:28:27] and single dads are gonna suffer [00:29:50] off-topic of this topic but i LOVE when stuff are centered [00:29:58] like windows menu [00:30:00] or search [00:31:02] [1/2] i LOVE helium for having this [00:31:03] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506091781614469211/image.png?ex=6a0d00c6&is=6a0baf46&hm=db39299fb35f3ee1f52c8f91b53efdc521a9dce7fa82f67ddcde91dca968027a& [00:39:49] there should be a channel about off-topic topics... Called "offtopic" maybe... [00:40:18] Offtopic for offtopic topics about offtopic [01:16:34] This also counts towards fixed width [01:16:54] Because I sure as hell DON'T want to look around the screen just to find something [01:30:29] I like fixed width but not everything being centered [01:32:30] Like? [01:36:30] Neocities is cool [02:04:58] Neocities my beloved [02:05:35] [1/4] I'm curious what types of coordination you were thinking about since it can be interpreted in many ways. Due to CentralAuth/all wikis sharing the same CreateWiki database, global changes occur more often on Miraheze. And even though Miraheze also has the problem of everyone focusing on their local wikis, there are enough wikis on the platform to produce [02:05:35] [2/4] globally active volunteers. [02:05:35] [3/4] But despite the higher level of global activity, I suspect that we have less coordination since no one is "in charge" and everyone just does what interest them. If multiple volunteer work together on something, it's usually an essential task (servers down, upgrading MediaWiki) or something that attracts multiple people (extremely rare; 2 is usually the [02:05:36] [4/4] max). [02:10:53] i was saying we have less coordination on central stuff than miraheze, I wasn't sure if you read it in that direction or the other [02:14:29] and by that i mostly mean that we have fewer defined roles and structure, our meta wiki only has a couple dozen pages, we don't really ever do any communication "from Weird Gloop", etc [02:28:42] Ah I see. I'd imagine on the tech side there's more coordination within WG due to everyone being employees, but there is indeed the lack of a "global community" which naturally emerges in wiki hosts that scale horizontally. [02:36:39] yeah it's also a bit different because pratically, i get to basically be the BDFL and make decisions really quickly [02:37:12] whereas it's never really felt like a single person here was ever empowered to do that. in some ways for better, in some ways for worse [02:43:42] Varies by domain and problem, but generally a true statement [02:44:09] We're slower to move as any volunteer/consensus driven project generally will be [02:44:32] As you said, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse [03:02:53] Today is MONDAY in California. [03:16:29] Actually, tomorrow is Tuesday -- shot [11:08:33] my hot take: windows 11 is visually better than windows 7, i just have a strong preference towards a minimal appearance when it comes to OS [11:12:59] I also like it better when stuff like the windows taskbar is centered, instead being positioned to the left [11:13:40] Which is why I like fixed width designs [11:14:26] Vector 2010/MonoBook worked because the computers weren't that large, however it isn't the case anymore [11:56:00] vector2010 with a fixed width is by far my favourite design [12:35:32] Samee [12:41:41] hassomecolors on top!!! [12:43:02] True!!! [13:48:49] [1/3] mommy wants miraheze servers to not die [13:48:49] [2/3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506292544852594809/HIo4ZMPWwAAZzx-.png?ex=6a0dbbc0&is=6a0c6a40&hm=5533744027100112b5d47c3616e9973636eeeeccef5fc1554abe1c7f8a2360ce& [13:48:50] [3/3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506292545968410784/iu_.png?ex=6a0dbbc0&is=6a0c6a40&hm=d1f0f00a3677f20f34dc00cf46bf8a3aeddd7ae5b30d03ddbc8497411ed9425d& [14:16:01] seeing these linux vulnerabilities is making me rethink if i want to switch [14:26:47] [1/2] vulnerabilities found and got fixed = good [14:26:47] [2/2] vulnerabilities hidden without your knowledge = bad [14:34:10] Actually those linux vulnerabilities require local access and unless you give your physical PC to attackers, they can't magically hack your PC unlike closed-source Windows with lots of hidden RCEs [14:53:42] When in doubt, blame the scrapers. It's not always them, but more often than not, it is. 😅 [14:54:44] are the miraheze servers ran on potato [14:55:47] Pretty good tech stack, for the most part. The problem is getting hit with a blimp-sized swarm of traffic every so often by LLMs looking to collect our content like beanie babies [14:56:31] Do they even think it'll pay their collage tuition like beanie babies? /j [14:58:17] [1/2] OpenAI be like: [14:58:17] [2/2] "You took my only food! Now, I'm gonna starve!" [15:01:24] in windows those vulnerabilities would just be there and quietly exploited [15:02:22] Good [15:02:25] also like if you don't have the latest computer hardware you're gonna be stuck on a windows version without any security updates [15:03:45] I dunno why they still go under the moniker, OpenAI when they're a private entity /s [15:08:59] OS vulns are a huge non-issue for the average user anyway [15:09:35] 99.9% of people have absolutely nothing worth exploiting a vulnerability for [15:12:05] botnet, crypto miner [15:13:07] Ahh... I 'member when I used to do the user escalation vulnerability exploit for fun by replacing the user accessibility with a sys32 cmd prompt [15:13:40] I heard about ddos botnet is mostly comes from random camera, routers or whatever IoT devices [15:14:01] -# obv microsoft defender will now detect it modern day, but it was fun [15:14:14] none of these are an exploit of the OS [15:14:20] purely a user issue [15:15:03] Oh and yeah, the Mirai Botnet from 2016, I did a research paper on that. [15:15:35] i miss when this worked [15:16:16] was useful for solving stupid fuck ups [15:18:30] I'm sure there's another user escalation exploit out there. And for legal reasons I won't say what or how [15:49:46] Have you considered doing what wikipedia does and make them pay for it [15:50:55] They're gonna do it anyway might as well pay for the server load [15:51:03] [1/2] Turn your capital into consistent financial growth with our beginner-friendly trading strategy designed for all experience levels. [15:51:03] [2/2] Click the link in my bio to get started — serious and interested people only. [15:51:18] ??? [15:51:55] Did not mean to Vriska react but I will leave it there [15:52:40] Just say no to crypto spam [15:52:51] Oh good I was about to ping mods [16:05:00] [1/2] dude i was interested comeon [16:05:01] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506326821690409102/image.png?ex=6a0ddbac&is=6a0c8a2c&hm=d3fd335a2f686ce7991d727090bca2a88cebb00fcce7d0cbcec56b0db59d7083& [16:06:34] me when i fall for scam [16:06:50] i wanted money!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahh!!! [16:07:17] you're NOT getting money [16:07:22] but you can get your account hacked [16:10:22] This is what we call in the industry a pyramid scheme [16:11:41] pyramid scheme is short for infinite money generator [16:15:18] No no you see, we re-branded to a "multi-level marketing" strategy! [16:16:48] MLM vs. MLM... I prefer MLM ngl [16:17:16] Hm idk, I'm an MLM enjoyer myself [16:25:41] im a WLW person myself. [16:28:14] Truthfully, I am a BL[M/W], but that's hard to make into a acronym. [16:41:52] i think my cat would prefer mlem [18:22:14] [1/2] 🦈 [18:22:14] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506361353487777903/1.png?ex=6a0dfbd5&is=6a0caa55&hm=1ba6f1316d4088ccf50b4ab8303cbeb818c06b574d42589587546cdb13679cd4& [18:23:02] Blahaj! [18:25:56] Blåhaj hii!! [18:26:46] @blankeclair [18:27:43] milaheze monthly [19:12:45] shonk!! [19:56:25] Yes [19:57:35] Cloudflare have a thing called Pay to Crawl in private beta [19:57:56] I would consider it when it leaves beta and becomes GA [20:23:44] mh gets in forbes 500 [20:29:21] what? [20:30:16] [1/2] Would be a nice way to fund Miraheze but I don't know what the community thinks of it. [20:30:16] [2/2] We get crawlers all the time and we can't block all of them. It's also not difficult to obtain wiki content through other means such as IA dumps. The main difference here is that we are handing data over to AI companies. [20:37:54] hmm I don't think I'd want clankers slopifying my own wikis so I'd only support that if it's opt-in. but it would solve some issues for certain [20:40:05] they will do it anyway no? [20:41:34] they won't because we block them [20:42:35] effectively? [20:43:08] i never see the community agreeing to their wikis being crawled [20:50:09] We are also in a weird spot financially where we have plenty of cash reserves for servers (they are old and outdated but work reasonably well) but not remotely enough to have full time employees. So we are not in dire need of cash in any way. [20:50:48] Reverse Mr. Krabs [20:51:37] TBH I think we are only blocking the most egregious bots. We get 200 mil to 300 mil requests daily and the 100 mil difference probably comes from bots that are somewhat tame. I'd assume that a large fraction of those 200 mil requests comes from bots as well. [20:52:42] huh [20:55:20] @grok get off miraheze [20:58:30] (a)grok is this false? [23:26:15] [1/2] sure fandom... it's totally not like you're making everything only available for logged-in users [23:26:15] [2/2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506437862776639518/image.png?ex=6a0e4316&is=6a0cf196&hm=01c9aa291d68e17605cc12e705b16ba42159d8d35598684c84ede1988bf96e31& [23:37:21] they should make wikis only readable if you're logged in [23:37:58] They've gone the other route and made wikis just not readable at all. [23:38:55] Any given page has more advert than stuff, and even the stuff that is there is mostly fandom's random stuff rather than actual wiki content. [23:42:10] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1506441868983009382/Screenshot_2026-04-03_223945.png?ex=6a0e46d1&is=6a0cf551&hm=dd6e432ba4f8d1fecf177d324917ca8650ee8d6c8627321d520366c8eae6dc39&