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I thought i would try to save on Internet costs by trying out Comcast (I will never say their new name, it's worse than twitters) because the fiber provider i have was cheap when i got it but they've been increasing their rates a lot lately.
I did a self setup. I wanted to plug my router into their modem and be done. Comcast wanted to force me to manage their modem/router from an app that requires Internet access to use. So my router settings would live in the cloud with a bunch of other people's and i have no say if they want to alter how my home network functions, and i can only touch my settings with their permission while i have internet access - which tends to be spotty if you are tinkering with your access point to the Internet.
Comcast assumes i have internet outside of their service in order to use their service. They want to manage the settings of my home network in a server farm that requires access through an app that collects personal data when i want to make changes to my home network settings. Why? What good is this to me? Why can't i log in on the hardware directly in front of me using an Ethernet cable instead of pushing values to it from a remote server database?
Anyway, I'm dropping off a modem today.
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BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
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Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776105 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
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Replying to @spootart and @taynimated
BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!")
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Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776107 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.")
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I'm pretty sure i just sound weird because I'm having a hard time explaining why the Comcast arrangement is so bad.
There's no reason or benefit to not letting people control their access points. Not for the customer at least. Requiring an app to do basic home network maintenance, something that has been working without issue for decades using an Ethernet cable and a local PC, it's just adding complication to the system, more points of failure and more places for security to fail. The only reason they would do this is to collect user data and exert control over hardware in places where they shouldn't. They paid money to build a system that people cannot use without their permission, they just made sure to make it convenient for enough people that don't understand these systems so they won't complain. Because they have no understanding of what they're losing.
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I'm assuming the "the fiber provider" you had was AT&T. they've been pissing me off with raising rates as well as locking down their hardware in different ways (no way to edit DNS settings at the gateway level). SO I was looking into comcast and realized as you are now, that they have even more lockdown on their network hardware. Its fucking infuriating. They know we only have the two of them as choices. Both will continue to get worse and worse. We have to resort to hacking the equipment. It seems there are ways to bypass AT&T's humax bgw gateway, but it requires a little bit of money for hardware and some script-kittying. Let me know if you want links to whatever I've found in my research.
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I have a provider that was new in the area several years ago, but i wouldn't be surprised if at&t bought them 😅
Fortunately they are cool with a dumb gateway that i get to do all the routing from.