Have you considered that the reason the community isn’t curious about your opinion is because they’ve heard it dozens of times before? Or maybe your opinion is just rude, or maybe you’re posting it in a space that was never for you in the first place?

The entire internet is not and should not be an endless space for you to engage with the MArKetPLAcE OF idEaS. There are plenty of dedicated spaces for that in which every party has already consented to that kind of discussion.

I was an ally™️ before I transitioned so already fairly invested and educated on the trans community, I spent a lot of my time advocating for us. So I knew that what I felt was gender euphoria when one day I saw a boys vs girls meme and imagined myself as a woman in a way I guess I never had before. It was pretty wild because I knew enough about the trans community to pretty accurately appreciate how much the trajectory of my life had changed in that moment.

It made a lot of things line up as well. One time I told an old therapist that the discomfort I had with my body felt a lot like what trans people described as gender dysphoria but “I didn’t want to appropriate their experiences” 🤦‍♀️. I don’t know how I didn’t put two and two together there, but my therapist must have been asleep at the wheel jfc. I also remembered being a kid and reading Calvin and Hobbes and thinking I’d set their transmogrifier to girl and be a girl and getting a fuzzy feeling from that. Few other things too.

• Transition immediately
• Tell my partner to transition immediately and not put it off
• Don’t date the ex that traumatized me
• Seek therapy sooner

Not much else tbh.

You’ll definitely want to study DevOps and SysAdmin if you’re looking for general knowledge. O’Reilly textbooks are a good place to start.

If you’re website is entirely static, you can actually host it for free with Github Pages. For deploying a .NET (or really any dynamic) app you probably want to look into how to package it into a Dockerfile. That makes it platform agnostic and bundles every dependency into an easy to deploy image. After that you probably want to look into setting up Heroku to put your app on the internet. You’ll also want to maybe register a domain and configure DNS if you want a proper domain name, but that’s comparatively simple.

If you’re going the AWS route, you’ll want App Runner or EC2 for the app itself, RDS for database, and maybe even API Gateway to sit in front of your service and route requests/terminate authentication. You could even configure everything with code using an Infrastructure-as-Code tool like Terraform.

If you can’t tell from the number of links, the barrier of entry to AWS is much higher but it’s worth getting your head around depending on where you want to go. Maybe leave it until you’re a bit more comfortable with building an deploying apps though, I’m mainly mentioning AWS to give you an idea of what you might want to head towards, you should probably stick with Heroku for now.

Deploying and administering a website/service covers multiple fields separate to programming - you’re going to want to primarily look into DevOps, SysAdmin, and infrastructure. Like programming, there are a lot of areas to specialise in as well that depend on what stack you need.

Considering your inexperience in the field, a Platform-as-a-Service product like Heroku might be a good place to start. If you need something more serious with more configuration, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product like AWS may be better (plus they have many hosted Software-as-a-Service products for things like authentication). If you want to roll your own servers you’ll want to look into Docker, which makes it simple to deploy isolated versions of your project (+ any databases) on any machine.

All these products are well documented with guides aimed at beginners - the trick is knowing where to look ;) If you give me some specifics about your project I can probably point you at some basic guides for AWS.

I should also give you the warning that all of these options carry some security risks if you’re careless - they can be all configured wrong or exploited through vulnerabilities in your code, which can result in a large bill or (if you’re running on your own infrastructure at home) put your personal data at risk.

Dissent is a great bar that I would highly recommend checking out if you’re in Canberra. They have great food, live performances, and (as you can see from the article) are consistently on the right side of history - support them with your dollars.

How about you put that in a fucking spoiler tag bud

Hmm interesting, thanks for the link!

You and every other conspiracy theorist can express your unevidenced beliefs how you like, this conversation clearly isn’t worth my time.

Do you actually have any evidence Waymo staff can remotely drive their vehicles? Or are you just tilting at windmills? I don’t really appreciate the insinuation that I am some rube by someone evidently unaware of basic cybersecurity concepts.

There are real problems with this arrangement that should be focused on rather than vague speculations - i.e. the exploitation of developing nations by the machine learning/tech industry.

They’re running red team hacking scenarios, an extremely standard, common, and good practice in the cybersecurity industry. Any device, especially one connected to the internet, is at risk of being hacked - it would be naive to assume otherwise, so they’re hiring professionals to penetrate their security before someone else does. This is actually a sign they’re taking security seriously.

Also, from the article: “they do not remotely drive the vehicles”.

They use Vimeo’s OTT platform (which makes a lot of sense especially considering Vimeo was founded at CollegeHumor/Dropout)

What is it with the far right and school girls?

A lot of things these days. My partner made me a cup of tea and I looked at them and started weeping. My cat will walk along my chest towards my face when I’m lying in bed and meow assertively, scrunching up her nose, demanding cuddles and kisses and that gets me every time.

I would love a technical post!

I had a great and gay new years!

Yeah this account stinks of jaq-ing off

I am not only a Wikipedia editor, but I used to be a fairly prolific one. I probably plugged thousands of hours into research for various articles over the years. I don’t want a cut of the donations - I didn’t do it for money.

Websites are more than their hosting costs and to be frank only an amateur or someone looking for a cheap “gotcha” would present that number. For one it leaves out all the staff administering and designing that infrastructure - which I assume would at least consist of multiple teams. That number also doesn’t even include the salaries of the staff developing and maintaining the software itself (again, multiple teams), nor the management structure expected (and legally required) for an organisation of that size.

Actually looking at their financial statements, and to quote them: “Our expenses totaled $190.9 million, of which 77.4% went to programmatic activities, 11.4% went to fundraising expenses, and 11.2% went to general and administrative support. These percentages are well within the range of best practice for nonprofits”. Indeed, an administrative expense ratio of under 35% is generally the goal for an organisation and which they more than beat. Their programmatic spending rate is likewise excellent.

I have plenty of problems with Wikipedia - largely relating to the editing culture - but the fact remains that it is an invaluable service run efficiently and at a fraction of the cost of similarly trafficked websites.

It’s scary, I was just as terrified when I did the same thing, but you’re brave. Congratulations on taking the first steps, I’m proud of you 🩷

Absolutely for me Mythic Quest. I know it’s a well regarded show, but I found it pretty average overall. But OMG S02E06 Backstory is so much better that it blows every other episode out of the water.