Oh my gosh, sooo cute!! :3

There's languages designed with Capabilities in mind. Like, whatever starts the program gets to decide what functionality is exposed to the running program. It's great for situations where you might run untrusted code and want to, as an example, not allow network access, or filesystem access.

More generally there's also sandboxing techniques that runtimes provide. Webassembly for instance is designed for programs to run in their own memory space with a restricted set of functions and, again, Capabilities. This might be nice if you ever work on a cloud application that allows users to upload their own programs and you want to impose limits on those programs. Think AWS Lambda, except the programs running wouldn't necessarily even have access to the filesystem or be able to make web requests unless the user configures that.

It might be a good design space for even more esoteric areas, like device drivers. Like, why worry if your GPU drivers are also collecting telemetry on your computer if you can just turn off that capability?

There's older applications of sandboxing that are a bit further from what you're asking as well; like, iframes on a webpage; allowing code served from different servers you don't necessarily control to run without needing to worry about them reading access tokens from local storage.

Or even BSD Jails and chroot.

Good question 💖

It makes sense that you have your own unique experiences, and that you do and don't resonate with others'. What's been helpful to me is thinking of gender as a spectrum and that it's fine if I don't 100% fit into a neat little gender box.

It's easy to try and fit yourself (or others) into these boxes. That's how human brains work; by categorizing.

The reality is that your self and your experiences are unique and that transgender lesbian is a label you can use to describe your own experiences. There are many many more labels, all of which try their best to capture the nuances of the human experience with respect to gender and sexuality.

If transgender lesbian doesn't feel 100% right then there is a plethora of other labels that maybe align better.

Another thing to be aware of is that, today, transgender CAN be meant to describe someone who's true gender identity is on the opposite side of the gender spectrum. Maybe you're actually somewhere in the middle, or off to one side, or some combination, or even feel that gender isn't a part of your identity at all.

Ultimately you are the final authority on what you choose to label your true self.

On blockers as well, the main things I've noticed is a slight improvement to my complexion (not a huge difference to be honest), slightly less muscle strength, and less of a raging sex drive (I have a high sex drive, it's less insane now).

Facial hair is exactly the same. I'm having electrolysis done to correct that (slowly 😭)

As far as starting on HRT, I'm in Seattle and it was as easy as getting an appointment with my primary care physician, explaining that I've been experiencing gender dysphoria and that I'd like to start taking t-blockers, and then signing a release form and having some blood work done. I was also asked about what kind of support I had in my life (family, friends, therapist) but it felt more to gauge if I was in a good place mentally and offer resources than as a gatekeeping question.

I think bumblebee has a "find a friend" app to make those platonic connections.

One thing to keep in mind is to not under-eat, but instead eat better. Salad wraps with a protein are kind of a go to for me as I can get a bunch of greens in with minimal bread and use a fish protein. Raw foods ftw as well. Eating more often rather than all at once is also a good as it keeps your metabolism going for longer.

Avoid skipping meals. If you eat too little your body will assume food has become scarce and it’ll store away as much as possible as fat to use later, kind of defeating the purpose of your exercising.

Beans and mushrooms are also good sources of protein. Quinoa > rice. Finding good healthy recipes is also a must. There’s a ton of delicious recipes that you can do. Naturally fermented foods are also great in moderation (high salt content). In general, if it’s cooked the food is easier for your body to use and the calories are more accessible which is why I’m recommending raw veggies and such.

Also, you can make your own granola really easily by tossing oats, pecans, pumpkin seeds and some honey in a bowl with some oil and oven roasting it for a few minutes. Find a recipe and enjoy it with unsweetened whole milk Greek yogurt and some fresh fruit. Overnight oats with chia seeds are also easy to get going with the same idea of adding fruit.

Hope this is helpful!

Been there with facial epilating. Noo thank you. I've started electrolysis which has been simple enough (though time consuming). I can see some results, but wow, I think I'm still not even a quarter of the way there with 7 hours done. It beats the pain of epilating though.

I have no experience with laser, though. I've heard it is less permanent than electrolysis which is why I avoided it. Was it completely ineffective?

I'll watch this later, but woof. It's not looking good already 😂

Oh no

I love your poetry so much ❤️ Sending you teary-eyed hugs 🤗

Yay, thank you! ❤️ I have a severe lack of cute dresses in my life ☺️

Well, you look fantastic. Can I ask where the dress is from?

I guess a more modern example you might run into is something like Rust's no_std environment; which strips out the standard library of the language that doesn't work on every device the language is designed to target (namely microcontrollers that don't even have an operating system on them). Or like, maybe you're writing your own operating system.

including a new feature called Vault for engineering teams to store and share authentication "secrets" securely

oh my god

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Yeah, I got around to watching this finally. OOF. No thank you ✋

Another example comes to mind of a company, General Magic, that designed a programming language with a similar Capabilities system meant to restrict access to functions and code on their devices with the idea of copyright enforcement in mind as a primary use case. There's a documentary about the device if you're interested: https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com

This is the way.

I always end up wishing strong narrative focused games like Red Dead Redemption 2 would have female protagonists. Alas.

I've found that tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons, Monster of the Week, The Sprawl, and so on are so much better to get those kinds of "this is me!" stories. If you haven't found much community yet for yourself (an important step for me, personally) I would look for queer roleplaying groups in your city or online.

Any company worth working at is going to understand your concern about your parents' health.

Definitely doing something and being consistent with it is more important than having a finished thing at the end of it; like, challenging yourself and having fun with it. Open source projects are just one way to do this, it's kinda like volunteering where you can earn bonus points with people for being invested in collective good and working collaboratively. Being able to effectively collaborate is a really valuable skill to have (and companies know it) and worth finding ways to include in whatever you're doing. There's other ways to do this. For instance there's nonprofits and local communities that look for volunteers to build websites for them.

I also recommend finding community if you can. Dunno where you live, but I've had a good time getting to know the folks at Out In Tech, which has chapters in various cities (more generically, they have a slack that anyone can sign up for).

Also, for me, finding motivation in isolation has always been hard for me; joining a company gave me that external motivation I kinda needed to get started. If your goal is to find a job I recommend not creating artificial barriers for yourself just start applying to stuff. Interviewing is a skill and you probably need to develop that by just interviewing a lot. Try setting a goal for yourself of number of companies to apply to per day (10 a days and you're cooking with gas, but at least 2 is respectable). Volume is kinda your friend until you get your foot in the door.

I hope this is helpful. You got this!

It's experience. There's no such thing as undocumented experience. Training yourself to see your experiences as valid in an of themselves is a process, one I've struggled with myself; but, it's really important as it's expected that from employers that you're not filtering out expertise you have because it "wasn't professional enough" or whatever. Running a Plex server for friends to stream from is valid experience and worth considering if you're building out time ranges on your resume (eg. N years of experience with $technology)

That's really exciting!

What has helped me is to focus less on labels and more on how I'm reacting emotionally to different things. Like, how happy I felt seeing myself in a blouse and skirt for the first time. Or how badly I felt understanding that a conversation about "girls night" wasn't an invitation to me. Or the relief of telling my partner what support looked like for me as I figure all of my own stuff out. Getting "sir"'d at a local bakery.

Like, I can either fall into the self-critical trap and view it as "evidence" of how valid my ideas of myself are or aren't. Or I can chase those things that makes me feel whole, good, and welcome and trust that the work I put into being fulfilled in life is going to make everything I do that much more wonderful to experience.

At least that's what I tell myself. Who knows how good I actually am about it. Being human is inherently messy and full of mistakes and learning from them.

I love this! Is there somewhere that I can follow the artist?