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  • Selective Estrogen Reuptake Modulators can control which parts of the body are affected by estrogen, they’re sometimes used for non-binary feminizing HRT regimens to prevent breast growth while getting the other effects. AFAIK there isn’t really much in the way of real medical research on them with regards to transgender HRT specifically (the medications typically used are intended for breast cancer treatment) so they’re mostly limited to a few enbys doing DIY who don’t mind living on the edge.




  • Enby (from NB, from non-binary) is kind of an umbrella term to refer to anyone who doesn’t strictly identify with one of the binary genders (male/female). Agender would certainly fall in that category, as would other identities such as genderfluid, pangender, and many more. There are also plenty of people who don’t want and/or care to have a more specific label, and just refer to themselves as non-binary, full stop.

    To the best of my understanding, genderqueer is also an umbrella term which means pretty much the same thing as non-binary, but has a somewhat more “radical” nonconformist connotation. There is significant overlap between the two terms and whether someone identifies with one term or the other or both is pretty subjective. Is agender genderqueer? If you identify with both terms, then it is :)







  • True, but there are also some legitimate applications for 100s of gigabytes of RAM. I’ve been working on a thing for processing historical OpenStreetMap data and it is quite a few orders of magnitude faster to fill the database by loading the 300GiB or so of point data into memory, sorting it in memory, and then partitioning and compressing it into pre-sorted table files which RocksDB can ingest directly without additional processing. I had to get 24x16GiB of RAM in order to do that, though.


  • Again, that would be TIFF. TIFF images can be encoded either with each line compressed separately or with rectangular tiles compressed separately, and separately compressed blocks can be read and decompressed in parallel. I have some >100GiB TIFFs containing elevation maps for entire countries, and my very old laptop can happily zoom and pan around in them with virtually no delay.






  • I have tried hosting a Tor relay on a VPS in the past and it was bottlenecked by the CPU at barely 20MB/s, although to be fair this was without hardware AES. More importantly for you, the server’s IP started getting DDoSed constantly and a whole bunch of big internet services just immediately blocked the address (the list of relay IPs is public and many things just block every address on that list instead of only exit nodes). So any of your machines are probably at least somewhat up to the task (ideally if they have hardware AES support), but this is definitely not something I’d do on my home network.