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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 11, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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I have basically no opsec. I'm using this username pretty much everywhere, and it's connected to my real name on e.g. GitHub and Twitter. If one searches for that on YouTube you'll get my real face/voice etc. from talks I've made.

Since I'm Swedish – which has many government databases viewable by the public – a whole lot of stuff about me is also easily googleable, like where I live, what companies I have a position in, all the court cases I've been involved in (none, thankfully), and my tax return and thus how much money I make (though that last one is slightly more complicated as you need to send an email to the tax agency and not just google me).

So far nothing bad has happened, though my political opinions are fairly normie liberal (in the Euro sense, so e.g. free markets) so I'm not too worried about cancellation. Knock on wood.

Edit: Okay, one kinda annoying thing about it is that my surname is pretty jewish, so when my programming stuff gets discussed on e.g. 4chan people will google me and comment on it (or use those triple parentheses etc)