I wish you weren't right, but the other day my brother asked me how to open a zip file. He's 20.

Not really. I've heard stories about people getting sued after finding vulnerabilities. Of course the cases would get thrown out, but that's assuming you can eat the mountains of legal fees it'll take to actually get to a judge.

Yep which is why you involve serious investigative journalists (what few are left). Not as good as going through a lawyer but they do have a tendency to protect their sources.

Well legal or not, in the EU there are Facebook groups like this for every city. So it seems to be a need for women to ensure their safety. Don’t understand what’s so controversial about that… it’s like cancel culture: when there are no legal repercussions to misbehaving stuff like this happens.

They really do. I'm quite tech savvy compared to the average and most of what people hand wave as easy around here is way beyond me.

The women who go on there clearly do it not out of spite for men but because the system is clearly not sufficiently ensuring their safety. I’m not saying it’s a good solution but idk why the internet is so enthusiastic about women who likely had bad experiences (including r*pe) being doxxed and calling it karma…

Lemmy at least has a misogyny problem and is openly hostile to women. I don't know how common that is to the Internet itself these days but it doesn't seem like a good sign, even once you accept that Lemmy specifically recruited Redditors.

Some of these women were using it to slander individual men, therefore all the women using it to warm other women about rapists and abusers are awful and just as bad as 4chan incels.

Not yet but not for a lack of effort from some of these dorks.

Wonder why they're also typically defensive about their 4chan usage?

Source of doxxing claims?

They all legitimately believe they're the one 4chan user who isn't a bigot.

Yea, that was some copyright bullshit.

It’s also bordering on cyberstalking/cyberbullying, depending on the context. Following a few suicides, some areas have pretty strict laws about that kind of stuff. It’s also a massive GDPR problem if any European guys were listed on the app, but couldn’t access it to remove their own data.

Doxx them by publishing drivers licenses with legal name, address, and DOB to the whole internet.

Or by linking to their public tinder or Facebook profile and saying I had X bad experience, fair warning to anyone dating person, to a small userbase.

If you think that's the same then you need a reality check.

What's your solution to IDing creeps?

There's a big difference between being a safe/competent shooter and being a gunsmith.

3d printing a firearm you're planning to bet your life on is a big ask for someone who isn't already a gun owner.

Also, if you're buying a glock slide and parts kit to put in your plastic gat, you aren't really saving much money.

A glock can be had for nearly $300 on sale sometimes.

Maintaining a gun involves knowing how to take the slide off and scrub it with a brush. 3d printing one involves knowing how they work, not to mention having access to a printer, files, then buying a kit because you still need metal internals if you don't want it to explode in your hand. Vice did a video on printed guns.

TL;DW: a reporter got someone experienced in printing guns to help him build and test the gun over weeks and it still malfunctioned on competition day. If you want reliable self defense, buy it. Even a hi point is preferable to a printed gun, and honestly it's probably cheaper too.

I get CC'd on Crown reports on 3D printed guns. But I'm so glad you shared this thing from Vice.

I think our disagreement might be more cultural than technology based, though, since I'm not American and gun laws are much different where I live. And it was... sort of a joke. Obviously, where I live having an unregistered firearm carries a lot of risk that outweighs the benefit.

Kits are about $30-100, the files are free and materials are cheap. Ammo is another matter, but plastic darts are a thing.

But to the point, it was more of a hyperbole than advocating women start carrying unregistered firearms, so I'm exploring the hypothetical rather than arguing in favor of it.

Where I live getting a gun is a lot more difficult, and a license to conceal and carry a loaded weapon even more so. Hypothetically speaking, it is faster, easier and cheaper to make a 3D printed handgun if you know what you're doing. Given their prevalence here, it doesn't seem all that difficult for a lot of people. I'm not saying it's without risk.

Different boards on the site have different people. Some boards are somewhat maladjusted nerds with poor social skills like /tg/ others are more technical and home to the unhinged users

but the alternative is just assuming every man is a piece of shit.

If bad experience so common that community exist, maybe that not bad solution. Always take second person to date, always take self defense thing, etc.

Men not known as creep before date by someone in community or maybe friend. Always take precaution could protect against creep even if unknown man.