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portswigger.net 5y ago

Open source TinyCheck turns your Raspberry Pi into a stalkerware detection unit

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

New Pluralsight Course: Care and Maintenance of Development VMs

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

Fixing Data Breaches Part 5: Penalties

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

Fixing Data Breaches Part 1: Education

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us.wob.su 8y ago

Where to Find Remote Golang Jobs

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What are the easiest ways to earn crypto without investments?

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www.newyorker.com 8y ago

The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem

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aeon.co 8y ago

Is goodness natural?

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www.latimes.com 8y ago

10,744 more Kennedy assassination records released

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nautil.us 8y ago

The Prison Guard with a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

Locking Down Your Website Scripts with CSP, Hashes, Nonces and Report URI

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Heart Surgery May Be Safer in Afternoon Than in Morning

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

New Void Discovered in the Great Pyramid at Giza Using Muon Tomography

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levels.io 8y ago

How to 3d scan any object with just your phone’s camera

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now.tufts.edu 8y ago

The Mathematics of Inequality

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

One chart shows how careless young Americans are with online passwords

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

New Pluralsight Course: Emerging Threats in IoT

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www.axios.com 8y ago

What it will take to make it to Mars

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www.axios.com 8y ago

3% of science Nobels go to women. And it's not just a gender problem

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www.bloomberg.com 8y ago

In the World’s Most Livable Cities, Hardly Anyone Can Afford a Home

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www.wired.com 8y ago

The Leaked Anti-Leak Training Email Sent to DOE Staff

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www.troyhunt.com 8y ago

How I Decide What I Endorse and How I Ensure Transparency

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

The Lobby – Stop Wasting Time Applying to Jobs ($2,000/mo)

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medium.com 8y ago

How does Ethereum work, anyway?

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

10 Startups in 24 Hours

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www.indiehackers.com 8y ago

How I Went from Indie Lurker to Indie Hacker

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aeon.co 8y ago

Is taxation theft?

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aeon.co 8y ago

Anthropocene fever

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jvns.ca 8y ago

How to answer questions in a helpful way

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Just to get an idea of where your solution stands on the market, what tools are you competing with and what "CSPM/CIEM tools that fall short in cleaning up AWS IAM" do you imply?

It's impossible to tip over fighting against institutionalized injustice. The whole history of fighting sexism, racism, discrimination didn't lead to getting rid of these problems yet and there is still a very long way to go.

Women having it harder and sexism are small and very personal problems? It's just not true, things are right the opposite. If there was enough support the described situations would not be the norm. It is not enough support until it completely stops. And even then, women will not be compensated for huge damage already done to them, and will still need support due to this fact.

It still applies, although on a smaller scale. Some person will feel uncomfortable because of another person's learning process. It's obvious that learning will take place, but it should happen as an established and guided process like training or curation, this kind of learning is ok.

Why bother about side effects that are unavoidable but statistically insignificant? You can say it about any type of cryme that you can be wrongfully accused of it. So what do you suggest, gust stop punishing any crimes because of it and go back to chaos? These cases are just not a valid argument. Sexism should be punished and should be stopped, side effects shouldn't stay in the way of measures against it. Our whole legal system works like that, why is it suddenly a problem exclusively when it comes to dealing with sexism.

No, it's you who is missing the fact that ability to destroy someone's career is not gender related, but sexism is. You also don't bother to find that statistically cases of false accusations are very rare while numbers of ppl who perform all kinds of discrimination and harassment and get away with it are huge, and exactly this is the main and many times more important problem than statistically small cases of side effects like you describe. Again, learn something about the problem first, you get it backwards and ignore the most important facts.

You dont't apply this logic to men somehow, despite the fact that male jerks can equally destroy you career. How about stopping your interactions with men as well then? essentially you suggest to ignore and reinforce a huge problem of sexism instead of learning how to behave correctly. This approach is harmful and stinks in both moral and professional sence. Sexism and discrimination create toxic environment, not people and actions attempting to battle it.

It's very unlikely to get blamed for polite respectful attention to females if you don't confuse it with any shades of sexist moves. You don't apply this logic to men, which is sexist, even considering that male jerks are a far more often thing than female ones. So why you just dont't stop contacting them first?

I wouldn't, because his learning time means his victims's time in hell. It also doesn't work like this legally, in case of committing a crime, not fully realizing one's own problematic behavior is not quite an argument.

It is sad to see that even after many good explanations by other users you're in complete denial of facts that 1) normally it is dangerous for women to report openly 2) they have right to not do so 3) they are not responsible for companies's mismanagement of this possibility 4) given all this, what matters significantly more here is a woman's safety and not awareness of a company.

It's not #MeToo causing problems for sure since it attempts to battle sexism by raising awareness. It is sexism which causes all types of problems that you mention. Avoiding women in workplace is essentially sexist. And for non-sexists there is no reason to do so.

There are no countries where the problem of sexism is solved. Maybe it is better in Europe, but it still exists everywhere and still huge. And in the most countries it is times worse. It is reasonable to protect oneself from that behavior with all legal means and it would be strange to expect anything else of a person facing high probability of being discriminated against.

Why do you think that women who forced to constantly experience all kinds of problems and overload because of their gender, should be concerned about well being of groups and institutions (that tend to force them into these problems) at the expense of their own safety? Maybe you imply some ideal situation in which it is totally safe for an average woman to communicate openly like you suggest, but how often is it really the case given a huge problem of sexism we are discussing here and multiple evidence of which you were just presented?

Small b blogging 8 years ago

I didn't want to sound offensive at all, sorry if it happened. I agree that it fixes nothing in terms of curing sexism, but if it could fix the problem of not getting paid gigs I would try it, and I know several cases when it works for female freelancers. They just have male handles and don't contact their clients in person (offline or with voice).

Small b blogging 8 years ago

Have you ever tried doing all the same under a male handle? There is multiple evidence it works, maybe worth testing if you are sure that gender bias is the main problem?

Health, education and development are absolutely necessary. And these three are very expensive. Also a parent should have a decent amount of savings because you never know if your child is going to have health or mental problems. If he turns out ill and there are no savings, just saying oh sorry I can't afford stopping your suffering is not an option.

Sure, something leading to cyberbullying and girls committing suicides is obviously a very, very bad thing along with objectification. Many people are not even in control over their health and body for physical, psychological or social reasons. "Successful in their career" doesn't work the same way, it is a bad analogy. For one, this doesn't influence kids/teens, career success is all about grownups and doesn't degrade people to mere objects.

I think it is a combination of finally enough people starting to actively speak out against that behavior, the power these groups finally gained and amassed pieces of knowledge that those practices are really harmful. We just gained critical mass to flip the switch. To replicate it faster we should probably speed up human learning and development in some way.

It definitely won't be easy, but we have to start somewhere. Currently I don't have any better ideas than something like an app to share experience. Any other ideas to start battling dehumanizing?

Exactly. This is a problem of lack of imagination and empathy. How do you think it can be fixed in mass? I think we need mechanisms that make people understand experiences of disadvantaged groups. Like maybe some VR app showing their reality + some laws that those who deny other groups problems must use it.