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I would have never associated that image with furries. It looks like an anthropomorphized animal, which is not uncommon in marketing imagery.
The future of Flipper Zero development
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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…
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.
That's possible, too. There's not a lot of respect for arbitrary rules that don't seem to clearly benefit any legitimate purpose, and people don't tend to limit that thinking to one arena.
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> 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
That's exactly right. Between us, I don't understand furries at all. It doesn't remotely interest me and I can't really even imagine being interested in it. And that's OK! Someone else being into it doesn't harm me in any way. If it brings someone else joy, I don't have to understand it. I'm just glad my friends have a fun thing they enjoy with their other friends.
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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.
exhibitionism being tied in with the fetish is the first valid explanation I've seen in the thread, I'll be impressed if the furries admit it themselves but so far it seems that name calling and spurious arguments is the best ill get, thanks for helping clarify things
Re: The future of Flipper Zero development
#105Tough spot with community that expects firmware updates while hardware sells only once
Re: The future of Flipper Zero development
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
True that. Darned if I have any desire to verify! It doesn't matter one whit to me.
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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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> i can't play devil's advocate for intentionally doing that around kids. I can't even maintain good faith anymore, next time I see that shit I'm putting a stop to it, unless one of you can convince me not to.
We're gonna see some bad headlines coming from this guy's local Charles E. Cheese real soon...
Re: The future of Flipper Zero development
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Cause they like animals or the art style?
OK, so they’re furries. I love animals. I’ve never once thought: “these humans in this picture should be replaced with anthropomorphised animals”. This is peak “I read it for the articles”.
so how do you explain the dolphin? And all the other cutesy art the product uses?
Re: The future of Flipper Zero development
#110Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.
I use it to clone remotes of "dumb" devices and emulate them with ESPHome to make them "smart" fully offline under my control.