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Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by thin_carapace »

koolala wrote: post #87
thin_carapace wrote: post #79

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Why do you think this has anything to do with the article? No one needs to endulge your bigotry.

genuinely curious as to what makes people think it's okay to publicly engage in behaviour directly linked to a sexual fetish which links to the article as per the grandparent comment. I specified around the kids because furries near me go out of their way to have their parties exactly where kids have their parties. nobody has to respond to me, that's true. nobody has to call me names either yet here you are.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by qwery »

JacobAsmuth wrote: post #37

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The drawing including a couple of anthropomorphised animal characters hardly seems surprising or even noteworthy. The project/product has always had a heavy emphasis on being "fun", including its dolphin mascot/theming/naming.

From the home page[0]:

> Flipper Zero is a tiny piece of hardware with a curious personality of a cyber-dolphin.

One assumes that that "curious personality", the creator's attitude and the styling/presentation of the product/project is part of the reason for the success of the product.

The "furries" (as you call them) don't seem like the primary focus focus of the picture anyway -- there's a wide variety of characters doing a bunch of stuff in the drawing. There's also a dog, a shady-looking person stick up a poster, someone with pink hair, a cyber-dolphin, and I think there might even be more than two genders being represented.

Would there be a problem if the Flipper Zero community was "intertwined with the furry community"?

[0] https://flipper.net/

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by embedding-shape »

thin_carapace wrote: post #79
embedding-shape wrote: post #74

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> why is it okay for sex fetishists to act out sex fetishes in public around kids? I don't think that's what furries generally do, nor homosexuals for that part, unless you count holding hands or kissing each other on the mouth as "acting out sex fetishes in public"? I don't think I've seen that even once, but living in a "party city", I've more than once seen drunk heterosexual couples having sex in the streets and…

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Being in an animal suit is "act out sex fetishes in public" because that same suit might be used later in connection with sexual activities? Doesn't that make every heterosexual couples clothes also "acting out sex fetishes in public" somehow then?

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by Gigachad »

DaSHacka wrote: post #88
Gigachad wrote: post #83

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If you see the picture in the article and think it's a kink image then that says more about you than anything.

I was replying to GP's assertion more so than just the content in the post itself. For minor references like the image in the OP post it's whatever. I personally find furry art/culture repugnant, but I know plenty of people feel the same way about other things I like (and of which I insert references to in my projects) so I can't exactly get mad about it. Still don't agree with the overall concerning trend towards ex…

Context is everything though. I've met people who believe every flipper zero owner is criminal scum using it to steal cars or break in to houses. When the reality is it's a toy radio for the majority of users.

It's the same for everything. Most furry content has nothing sexual about it, the image in the article is entirely appropriate.

>saw a dude on all fours with nothing but boxers, a leather bondage dog mask

For what it's worth, as a furry I'm also very much not in favor of these people, but they are an entirely different group that doesn't have much to do with furries at all despite superficial similarities. Furries can no more control these people than developers and tinkerers can stop car thieves abusing RF bugs.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by loneboat »

kstrauser wrote: post #45
rebolek wrote: post #40

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Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?

My hypothesis, based purely on personal experience and what friends have told me. I am not a furry. I feel like infosec was one of the earliest "no one cares who you are if you have skills" user groups. Online, you were just a handle. Man, woman, both, neither, no one knew until if/when you met up IRL. Until then, all you had was your reputation. I think that led to people having a pretty good idea about the attitude…

That matches my experience (also not a furry). But there's also a whole additional layer of offsec being (by definition) "doing things you're not supposed to be allowed to do", which has obvious parallels with people who enjoy breaking social norms. I think some people just get a rush from the "transgressive" nature of both circles.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by thin_carapace »

embedding-shape wrote: post #94
thin_carapace wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Being in an animal suit is "act out sex fetishes in public" because that same suit might be used later in connection with sexual activities? Doesn't that make every heterosexual couples clothes also "acting out sex fetishes in public" somehow then?

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Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by loneboat »

hosel wrote: post #46
iririririr wrote: post #44

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what does it matter to you? honest question. would that impact your technical assessment somehow? do you just want in on some probable joke?

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Same. If the whole point is "people should be left alone to do what they want" then fine, but that should also include my right to think, "eh yeah, that's a bit weird".

And quite frankly, I think many people in the furry community enjoy being thought weird - for many it's sort of the point.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by weakfish »

Aachen wrote: post #68
kstrauser wrote: post #45

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My hypothesis, based purely on personal experience and what friends have told me. I am not a furry. I feel like infosec was one of the earliest "no one cares who you are if you have skills" user groups. Online, you were just a handle. Man, woman, both, neither, no one knew until if/when you met up IRL. Until then, all you had was your reputation. I think that led to people having a pretty good idea about the attitude…

> Man, woman, both, neither, no one knew until if/when you met up IRL. And sometimes not even then! Which is fine because indeed, who cares :)

My philosophy in most things. Even if I don’t understand it, who cares? It’s America and that means freedom
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