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Son: "Mom, Dad.. I'm gay"

Mom: *staring at dad

Dad: ...*clenches fists

Mom: ...don't!

Dad: *sweats profusely

Mom:

Dad: HI GAY, IM DAD

I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories.

This one (retold by my ex-Linden-Lab-colleague Mark Ferlatte) happened in the mid-2000s.

The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing.

But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs.

Happy Tuesday, Masto pals! Don't forget to drink water.

Sexual abuse 

@LogicalDash@cybre.space the focus a little different, and it assumes a man is reading, but yeah, it certainly touches on the restorative work of "coming clean".

Hi I'm Guy Fieri, and welcome to Communes, Co-ops, and Collectives

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death, suicide 

Unless we just expect people with guilt to just die, or kill themselves.

With the probable exception of the targets or victims, should people help others work though the guilt of of doing bad things?

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No one really has advice for people who hate themselves becauses they've done bad things, except maybe, "good".

Which, fair enough, but where do they go from there?

The biggest problem with duck typing is that modern keyboards just aren't designed very well for webbed feet

@masklayer I suppose it's like hooking up a lens to your eye. Conversely, I've never had a decent sceen on a camera for electronic viewfinding. When the glare isn't too bad and i can use my screen, it makes me think i might prefer mirrorless.

@masklayer what is your background in "photo stuff". do you have it written down somewhere?

protip(?): if you add ".rss" to the end of your profile url, you get a feed of all your public and unlisted toots that you can then plug into ifttt in order to cross-post to birdsite, with links on every one to remind people that you're actually on a much better website. here's how it looks on mine.

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