Just a thought on a forum moderation

[FranklyFlawless]

@plankretriever

Are these projects just your own hobby projects or are they serious projects, maybe money involved or NGO or something?

Pretty much everything I do inside and outside of the Qubes OS Forum is serious:

Why Has the Qubes OS Forum Become So Quiet Lately?

Sneak peek, one of those projects is now preparing a 2-hour presentation of AI security, although whether I do it for VanLUG or OWASP is now up to me to decide. A Qubes OS presention would be more appropriate for VanLUG, but technically Qubes OS is not a Linux distribution, it just uses them as TemplateVMs instead.

You can take a look at my Forgejo instance to see what actual development work I am doing.

@plankretriever

It also seems possibly illegal if you are using those methods everywhere like you said.

Everywhere in practice is limited to specific applications:

1. Auditing GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg repositories
2. Verifying claims/citations/references on websites and news articles
3. Investigating corporations/organizations with opaque structures and/or third-party dependency mappings
4. Attending OWASP and/or other cybersecurity events in my local community, compare and contrast against my entire workflow, then harden against any discovered vulnerabilities

Security is a process, not a goal, so I have to constantly exercise it, otherwise I am at risk of complacency. That is why I red-flagged and closed the topic from earlier in order to preserve the integrity of the Qubes OS Forum. It may have been my first time deliberately and publicly closing a topic around here, but for me, it was just another day in the office.