It's Allgood, Serra @jump_spider@qoto.org

@freemo
I was not! Thanks for the link! 😀

@freemo
A valid point, and ultimately if I don't like Gitea after I check it out, I will admittedly self-host gitlab's CE. Ideological purity isn't quite *that* important to me

til both github and gitlab are explicitly ok accepting blood money from ICE. A quick google search suggest Gitea isn't as soulless, so guess it's time to check that out

https://the-book-of-v.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

I've been passively following the vlang project since earlier this year, and despite how ambitious it is, I continue to be interested by what develops. It's at a strong stage in its development and has its own Discord - https://discord.gg/vYN3Jpr

I invite you all to give it a look see!

@sheogorath
I can't speak to why it was boosted, but I don't think it's source available; I can see it being orthogonal to open source philosophy because the intent of the network if to make a cryptocoin accessible to laypeople
@OpenSource

https://minepi.com/

At the risk of appearing to be a cryptobro, I've become more interested in the modern ecosystem. It's no doubt obvious, but they have been fascinating developments since I deliberately stopped following it almost a decade ago.

One of the recent ones is the Pi Network, developed by a team at Stanford. Their white paper is intended for laypeople, which I personally found enjoyable, and it outlines their solution for creating a SCP consensus trust network that organically grows from private individuals, accessed exclusively through mobile devices.

It's a newly minted coin, so as far as value goes, it's approximately 0 USD/EUR/etc right now, but it's interesting to me nonetheless

@freemo
Aha, I misunderstood then! Please consider my vote changed to listed then
@QOTO

@freemo
Well, we have X number of public bots, each posting x toots per day

If we unlist them, and have 1 bot that publically toots once per day to the effect of, "Check out updates from these awesome bots! As well as the newest addition to the bot team, $NEW_BOT!" then we go from the sum of Xi * xi to just 1
@QOTO

@QOTO
I voted for unlisted because several bots each posting several toots is a tiny bit spammy. I will suggest the idea of a bot that aggregates the bots, so to speak, one that federates and toots once a day about what arXiv bots have updated, if new ones were added, etc

@realcaseyrollins
Thank you for the clarification.
@freemo

@realcaseyrollins
So long as you're cognizant of your claims being merely your own opinions, that's fine

@freemo
@realcaseyrollins
The nature of hormones being highly individuated even without deliberate manipulation precludes any chance of "proving definitively" that it is effective at lessening dysphoria; even if it does, there are trade offs. The obvious methodology for any treatment like that is informed consent, not setting up as many legal and procedural hoops as possible to discourage people from even pursuing it.

Cisgender people are typically offended that we even come out, the "concern bombing" of making sure we medically transition "safely" is ludicrous. If there was genuine interest in improving safe efficacious treatment, they would be bloody funding into transgender research and not lip service legal compliance that only accomplishes normalizing this kind of armchair discussion about what's right and wrong concerning a life experience that is actively maligned as "going against the one true God's plan."

My apologies if my perspective is offensive. Being told my existence is inherently sinful causes my sense of indignation to flare up.

@realcaseyrollins
There are many articles online that inform that difference. I encourage you to use your own research skills

@realcaseyrollins
It is a common and malignant misconception that anyone of significance has ever advocated for full genital reconstruction surgery for a person under the age of majority
@freemo

@realcaseyrollins
I dismiss Steven Crowder as even a tertiary source of medical scientific evidence. He is an entertainer, not an informative source.

The sky.com article is more robust; however, to draw the conclusion you have from it is an oversimplification. There are hundreds of factors involved in a person's experience of gender dysphoria, perhaps even a majority of them being socially external. The conclusion I draw from it is more nuanced: The medical community currently has a "one size fits all" approach to medical transitions, and frankly it can cause harm to individuals who are not sure exactly *how* they want to transition. Medical transition is merely one way, and even personally, I chose to stop HRT after four years. Furthermore, it is my admittedly personal belief that once a person begins to question if they are cisgender, they have started transitioning and can never be referred to as cisgender again with complete accuracy; I'm actually a fan of the concept of circumgender for this reason, the identity that describes a person as having labored and journeyed with their gender and currently identifies with the gender assigned to them at birth. The lingua franca and concepts involved with gender identity are still very much evolving at a rapid pace, so it should be no surprise that the labels a person uses to describe their experience and identity will change over the course of their exploration

@realcaseyrollins
Your question is unrelated because it is a false equivalency. Voluntarily becoming addicted to a substance is not a human right
@freemo

@realcaseyrollins
Your claim is factually incorrect. Cisgender and transgender are gender identities, which are orthogonal to sexuality

@freemo
I applaud your sharing of your personal experience. As a trans adult, and from discussion with several dozens of trans people both in person and in several online communities, I can share that the systemic denial of one's own bodily autonomy is, in a word, *exhausting*. Radical critics paint trans adults as predatory wrt trans children, but their perspective ignores the simple truth that we remember vividly what it was like growing up.
@realcaseyrollins