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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by Dalewyn on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:23PM (#42809397)
Seeing as Hacker News is ostensibly composed largely of people in-the-know, we could certainly use appropriate terminology unlike the commons.
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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by Avicebron on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:21PM (#42809680)
A lot of people live exclusively on layer 7, which is fine.
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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by fenomas on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:24PM (#42810522)
Usages exist inside contexts, and the context of the post you replied to was unambiguous. Changing it like s/VPNs/services advertised as VPNs/ would not clarify anything to anyone, and changing it like s/VPNs/proxies/ would be less clear (since the author was likely referring to commercial services, not servers in a network).
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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by justanorherhack on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:25AM (#42812451)
This is correct. This entire conversation demonstrates how bad technical people are at understanding people.
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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by numpad0 on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:04AM (#42813680)
"VPN" services do in fact use VPN, they're not HTTP based. It is technically appropriate to call them as such, as awkward as it is.
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