#cloud messaging

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! Just wait until you see what I want to do to the Constitution!!!

[i-have-41-protons]

My friend is refusing to worship the Glow Cloud (ALL HAIL)

[amalgamasreal]

On Personal InfoSec

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one of these posts and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides.

Browsers:

There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out.

Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN:

Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Proton VPN: Has easily the most amount of countries serviced, can take cash payments, and does offer port forwarding.

Email Provider:

Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Outlook.com you'll need to pay.

Proton Mail: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and fairly easy to setup and use. Offers a free option up to 1gb

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Email Client:

Thunderbird if you're on Windows or Linux

Apple Mail if you're on macOS

Cloud Storage:

Proton Drive: Encrypted cloud storage from the same people as Proton Mail.

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free, and open source.

Chat Clients:

Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode.

If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help.

I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[textless]

If you are a non-crazy adult living in the US, and you haven't voted yet, please do whatever it takes to vote today.

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[averlym]

ghost story premiere day! check @melliotwrites for more info

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Model references for Cloud Magician | Marks With A Message (Hatsune Miku) - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!

[secondarysefikura]

Cloud thinks he has killed Sephiroth (again) until an unknown number texts him "guess who's back" a few days later

Cloud is freaking out, because how is is possible Sephiroth is back already. Oh god, he can't do this again! He's still healing from the last fight!

Is this going to become a thing? Is Sephiroth able to come back in less than a week now? How many fights in short succession can he survive?

Then, in the middle of his panic attack, Cloud gets another message.

It's me, obviously! Found some awesome materia during my last cave trip but I am sooooo ready to relax for a bit. You going to be in Edge soon? I'll be there for a few days.

Uh, okay. That's kinda weird. That isn't really how Sephiroth talks or writes... Then, a few minutes later, Cloud gets yet another message.

Oh yeah, I got a new phone number. This is Yuffie btw.

[mumblelard]

i ate pears for dinner

[thegoodmorningman]

I bet you're blown away by this. Good Morning.

[lemonycranberries]

there's a bunch of parallels to be made between wicked and mo dao zu shi, as many people have already pointed out (see: these reddit posts, these animatics). but i was thinking about how wangxian's roles in comparison to elphaba and glinda can be considered to reverse over time. i mostly see people comparing wwx to elphaba and lwj to glinda, and sure, there's a lot of comparisons to be made there, but try to consider another angle.

in the cloud recesses, when they're teenagers, lan wangji is a disciplined, hardworking, intelligent student with a lot of pressure put on him to honor his family and their reputation, beloved by his teachers but witout any friends around his age, except perhaps for his brother; much like elphaba. meanwhile, wei wuxian isn't exactly the most dedicated disciple, and breaks quite a few rules without caring about it, which doesn't exactly make his teachers love him, but at the same time, he's popular and loved by his colleagues (who mostly dislike lan wangji, either finding him a sort of teacher's pet or being afraid of him) - while also being seen as a relatively frivolous person who just wants to enjoy life; in that sense, he's more like galinda (if we're looking through a queer galinda lens, we can also say both characters are very entrenched in comphet and very oblivious to their same-sex attraction, with galinda supposedly being a boy-crazy, girly girl and wei ying being very flirtatious towards women, and claiming to have been with many of them without even considering the most remote possibility that he could like men too).

but then, let's skip to both pairings in their adulthood. wei wuxian, that formerly popular, charming individual, is now the yiling patriarch, a previously very talented, advanced young man who's considered different from others in his society because of his methods, something that used to make people admire him and then became his downfall; he started to be hunted and blamed for all evil that ever happened, becoming the biggest public enemy in the cultivation world, and a legend of sorts, nearly a mythical figure, the represention of evil itself. at the same time, despite being warned by those who loved him, he didn't back down in doing what he thought was right (also defending a vulnerable and marginalized group that was being ostracized and blamed for doing evil things - the remaining wens - like the animals were), officially cutting all ties with the respected, traditional cultivation circles and running away to the burial mounds, very aware that this would make him be hated and turned into a villain. eventually, after losing people he loved, he started actually leaning into this evil version of him that was publicly known, comitting so called "evil" deeds while stricken by pain, and soon after, he died on hiw own, while the entire world celebrated his death and talked about how he deserved it because of how he'd done certain things, a lof of them not being true (note: both pieces of media begin this way, with the viewers/readers being introduced to the story with celebrations of the main character's death - and in both cases, said character wasn't actually - or permanently - dead). i don't even have to say how extremely similar to elphaba's story his story is in that sense (and you could still find more similarities, like both characters being morally gray or both characters being very attached to their siblings and going at extreme lenghts to protect them; i could go on). now let's look at lan wangji, who used to be that stubborn student disliked by many of his peers. in the current time, he has become hanguang-jun, a strong authority figure, respected by everyone in the cultivation world and widely considered an example of righteousness and Good. always very put together, always elegant, always where the chaos is; he's often resolving conflicts and is looked upon and admired as someone trustworthy and strongly virtuous. he was offered the chance to join wei wuxian in what he was doing at the burial mounds, years ago, but he declined, which led to him only being capable of helplessly watching from afar as the person who mattered the most to him grew to be more and more misunderstood by society at large, and consequentially, more and more hated - and persecuted. he was then forced to watch as the entire world celebrated the death of said person, never learning the truth about what had actually happened and who he actually was. does this remind you of anyone?

so basically, what i mean is that teen wei wuxian, a popular, likeable, enjoyer-of-life (or perhaps dancer-through-life) galinda, became a brilliant, but villanaized, ostracized and misunderstood wicked witch, like elphaba; while young lan wangji, a disciplined, introverted, hard-working elphaba, grew to be a respected and admired authority figure who was actually in deep suffering because of the way he lost the person he loved - not unlike our gal glinda, the good.

[ask-cream-unicorn]

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Cream Unicorn is an immortal cookie, and identifies as panromantic, asexual, and non-binary. They use they/them pronouns

BIG NOTE: I have read CU’s wiki multiple times but we are only going to be using crk relevant lore as well as headcanons that i’ll expand upon as time goes on.

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[heyclickadee]

Okay but the thing is, I actually think the Crosshair’s shadow thing works really well, but it’s in this really specific way where CX-2 is Tech and the shadow is Crosshair’s guilt.

[noneofyabuisness]

Sweetest girl and a quiet life.

[sickly-cyclic-cynicistic]

if you’re aware of the loops, then why do you do the same things over and over again?

when the front door opens only two sets of footsteps are heard against the planks, all peeling gray paint and faded wood stain.

(if it's a fun one we can show Soul when he wakes up!)

the mailbox no longer creaks when it opens, either use or maintenance had smoothed its sound.

[it's better to wait for him regardless,] (got one!) [but i see you're overexcited.] (you're nosy too)

the envelope rips open in Hearts hands and they read the words, their expression falling.

[...perhaps it's better we don't show Soul this one.] (yeah....)

[the first thing you need to remember is that we aren't real people. we are the personifications of concepts. obviously normally there is no separation between the metaphorical heart and mind. you, presumably, think and have feelings and they are not intrinsically separated by anything]

theres a soft shuffle sound as Heart sits on the top step, staring at the note. Mind watches him sit as he continues his explanation.

[it's not that we don't know better. we do. neither of us enjoy this. and in fact, things do sometimes change.] (its kind of like a script. we hit the beats and say our lines. sometimes we have to improv. and now we even have an audience) [we're influenced by the person we're supposed to be as much and they're influenced by us. it's complicated] (it's like... knowing better doesn't prevent it. it's like, you can know your friends care about you and want you around, but sometimes you feel like they're only putting up with you? we know it's better if we don't fight but it's in our nature. and at this point we know it better than getting alone. this right now, it's kind of like a grace period. a little bit of time after it starts to just breathe)

another shuffle, and Mind joins Heart on the step, taking the paper

[if it was as easy as simply not doing things it wouldn't be a loop now would it?] (we do try. it's almost like a compulsion though. but god do we try.) [we weren't always aware of them either. Soul was, but the two of us used to not know. We don't really know what changed. I have theories but.]

a shrug, and the paper is folded and tucked into a pocket.

[we aren't telling Soul about this.] (no, it'll just make him upset.) a sigh (i wish it was as easy as just.... not. we deserve better than this.) [not much to be done.] (yeah yeah. the only way through is forward. but it would be nice.) [it would be nice]

[zeravmeta]

one again crying thinking about one piece 1102

[payte]

Thank you so much @shmoodlet, @silverspringsimmer, @tipsy-clouds, @purplesimmer455 and @sharona-sims for all the love!

I just found the time to go through my asks at work and was just bombarded with all the sweetness! You all are amazing!