#Obfuscator

[the-silent-fellowship]

i hope you don’t mind me making another request but could you also make a flag for the term obfuscator? (https://pluralpedia.org/w/Obfuscator)

Obfuscator

[PT: Obfuscator]

“An obfuscator is a masker or prism who is also a persecutor, and forces masking onto the system in ways often detrimental to their attempts to live a healthy life. The obfuscator may prevent the system from asking for help, or allowing the system to divulge any secrets, even when it’s clear that doing so is the healthier choice. The obfuscator may be unaware they are doing this, or that they are even a headmate.” - Pluralpedia

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[Tags] @system-term-archive, @pluralitywords, @pluralterms, @radiomogai, @plurchive

[ursiday]

You're an angel, I'm a dog

[stacks4stacks]

Obfuscator released

The new Obfuscator stack replaces the older TouchBase stack. Beyond the name change, Obfuscator has the following changes:

Obfuscate practically any link type; beyond just email addresses, telephone numbers and Skype handles.

Compatibility with newer versions of PHP.

Toggle obfuscation of link labels (button text) on and off with ease.

Generate the code for obfuscated links that can be used elsewhere in your website; including paragraphs, footers, banners, sidebars and even entirely separate websites.

More button styles and theme / framework support. Plus an ability to append or prepend button icons.

Optional custom link attributes for more advanced configurations.

Refreshed user interface. Complete with options like viewing sample links directly within RapidWeaver.

As its name suggests, Obfuscator converts email addresses and other contact details into encoded, obfuscated links. Normal 'human' visitors to a website see no difference in how an obfuscated link looks or behaves. However for spam bots and other nasties, they typically just see gibberish code! Therefore Obfuscator can potentially be a powerful asset in helping reduce the amount of automated spam and other unsolicited communications getting to you via website links. Particularly if you have an aversion to using CAPTCHA or other more intrusive anti-spam measures.

Yes, some free tools already exist online that can do obfuscated links. However most of these only support email links. Some use Javascript to obfuscate links or leave tell-tale things behind like 'mailto' or 'tel' in addresses, which can leave links more susceptible to being found. Whereas Obfuscator obfuscates the whole link with server-side PHP.

Until 1st April 2023, I'm providing Obfuscator as a free upgrade for all my customers of TouchBase. Most customers have already been contacted by email this morning with a download link. Although some emails have bounced and other people had opted out of email updates. So if you have not received your copy yet, just drop me a message via the Stacks4Stacks website with your receipt attached, and we'll sort you out with a copy of this new stack.

Obfuscator has very-much been shaped into this highly-capable stack, thanks in part to valuable feedback received from actual users. My hope is that this entirely new stack fulfills all your obfuscation needs in RapidWeaver.

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[feminist-diary]

Why do the standards of human health differ for women? They know that having sex you don’t want every day to survive isn’t healthy. They know that cultures where women’s bodies are highly controlled aren’t healthy. They know that a woman changing her appearance through surgery doesn’t come from good mental health.

They know how degrading and painful all of this shit is. They know that this causes pain. If someone imagines a man being put into these positions, they would sense the inherent horror of it. It’s just that they think women deserve it, that this is woman’s position in society. It’s too normal, the suffering women are put through, for people to recognize its wrongness. But it’s also so normal that I ask, how can you not recognize it?

Why do you view women’s pain differently? Are women not human enough for our pain to matter? Why are you being intentionally obtuse, denying the truth you know deep down?

Patriarchy demands that you deny truth. Feminism reveals truth. Within feminism, there is nothing to hide.

[e-vasong]

Interview With the Vampire (2022-) is one of the best adaptations of anything ever because it is clearly made with so much love for the original text but it also is very open about critiquing the books while also existing in perfect, constant conversation with it. every change made is a strong writing choice on its own, but it is also made 10x stronger when viewed not just as an alteration of the original but an evolution.

louis being black and a brothel owner rather than a plantation owner is a really fucking smart idea all by itself. but it also directly furthers the differences in worldview between louis and lestat from the books. daniel being older, smarter, keener - much more obsessed with the truth - is an excellent conceit on its own, but its even better when we know that this is round 2 of the interview. he's learned from the awful way the interview went in the books, and now hes here for the truth. devils minion being a dance that arguably stretches decades (even if there wasnt a chase arc in the 70s!) only heightens their game of cat and mouse. armand being an adult physically and also being a POC is fucking inspired, both for how it places him in contrast to louis, and also because it allows them to avoid casting a minor in a very sexual role while still keeping the same dynamic (i.e. the frequent infantilization/fetishization of POC, especially asians).

The fact that some people are mad about its adaptation style boggles my mind, because I honestly think this set a new fucking standard for what adaptations should be. I'm insane about it. If they aren't changing the game like IWTV 2022 who even cares anymore.

[rikkivoid]

a pawn twice over

[cogentranting]

The thing that almost never gets brought up in "banned books" conversations but that I think is essential to address, is the distinction between "students shouldn't be allowed to read this" and "students shouldn't be required to read this".

There is a wide gulf between removing a book from a curriculum list and removing a book from a library but I almost never hear that acknowledged.

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

they are sending each other little notes on yahoo! pager

[corseque]

can't believe after 10 years we still don't know any concrete details about Solas. Who the hell is he anyway lmao

[menlove]

Andy: Just like most artists, really. I mean, there’s obviously no reason at all why you should answer any questions about what your songs are about, because the songs should be the statement, and obviously when you start talking about the particular meanings of something, without the music, without the context, it doesn’t sound right.

I certainly noticed with Brian Ferry’s songs that he expresses, reveals, far more of himself in songs than ever in a conversation, and he does it in a way that it’s always surprising – a quite extraordinary amount of revealing things. That’s particularly him. I know that that doesn’t apply to you.

Paul: But, you know, isn’t that what a lot of stuff, this “so called art” is about, isn’t it? You know that someone in a picture will be able to do something, express something you can’t do. Yeah, I think I find it easy, I mean, the same way a lot of people have stutters but don’t stutter when they sing a song. That always amazed me that, and I think it is the same way that you can have things said in a song. I mean, I would never have looked at John Lennon and kinda said, “I love you”, because it wasn’t about that, you know, it was nothing about that. But in a song, in the particular way they’re written today, I kinda easily say, “I love you”, almost as a throw-away, because it doesn’t seem embarrassing in that context. I can always deny that it was ever written about him. Burn the tapes, and delete the…

Paul McCartney, interviewed by Andy Mackay in 1982 about his album "Tug of War" (source)

(note: bold mine, but he did trail off there/was interrupted by Andy by another question. it's unclear which one from the transcript. but nothing has been cut off)

[krillgarden]

take care of it, homura.

[cincidious]

A web of fear shall be your coat To clothe you in the night

[itmightrain]

Always thinking about how much gideon's pov impacts the reader's ability to know what's going on in gideon the ninth. like there's literally parts where another character starts explaining crucial worldbuilding/plot details and we the reader don't get to hear what they say bc gideon starts zoning out

[em-exceeds-change-zearu]

middle-aged opposites

[girlnephew]

was going through my paypal history and was very confused as to why i sent $18 to some dude named andrew last month so i checked the payment info and their profile picture was a beautiful woman and the memo was for some hyperpop cassette and i realized i had just learned more about some girl whose music i listen to than i ever cared to

[elfcow]

Thank you, Murph, for rephrasing all the D20 behind the scenes interview questions in your answers, so that we can all know what everyone is being asked aksjfjhf