While I encourage everyone to do resistance training, I don’t think I have the wherewithal to moderate whether people are doing proper opsec. For example, I should be on account 4 or 5 at this point. That shit with current body threads flies on 4chan and look at what a shitshow it has become (We also have their sticky, the liamrosen link, alongside Reddit’s in our sidebar after the rules). All they care about on their fitness forum are immutable parts of their body - sparsely intermingled are actual questions and solicited critiques of diets, routines, and results thereof. I’m sure there’s a lot to be done about the fitness community here. If I were heads up about it, it’d probably be better that we just merge with self improvement. Not yet has this been a place where we’ve focused on physiques. If anyone’s response to your post is ‘post body’ I’m going to be
. I take some responsibility for that for being a lazy, absentee moderator. Especially as one who has previously critiqued going in depth with bodybuilding as juice not worth the squeeze. If anyone has ideas for how to do a better job, DM me (or put me on blast, I’m not picky). Contests? Weekly focuses+discussions?You could probably answer every question about physiques without looking at them anyway “should I bulk or cut first?” bulk. “my shoulders look misaligned.” go to a doctor. “I don’t want my boobs to shrink” do surgery or something else - your vanilla process has other plans. “My progress after X months seems lackluster.” eat more, sleep more, and lift with a routine.
If it’s up to me, you’re not banned for the comments in this thread because you seem otherwise like an upstanding member of the community. But you need to do better if you keep posting here. Asking questions is fine, unsolicited critique of bodies doesn’t fly. It also rubs me the wrong way to goad people into inferior opsec.
It’s fine as is. Most content here is around programming and nutrition, as it should be imo
Former real-world opsec manager for yankee interests before I started shucking off the yoke of empire: what you’re requesting is eminently foolish regarding hard-left posters who I can only assume make frequent habit of attending actions and protests. From one potential selfie here, regardless of the context, I could trace that back to every single social media platform you use, maybe even find a couple of your email addresses, or a grip of phone numbers that one of 'em is yours.
Just one badly cropped image, or unscrubbed pool of EXIF data can lead me straight to you, in meatspace, if you’re not as tech savvy as people like us need to be. Now just imagine what kind of purpose-made, bespoke tools our opfors have for that exact purpose.
pretty sure Hexbear scrubs exif on upload because our admins are rad
edit: confirmation
Oh damn that’s actually top notch. Still wouldn’t recommend uploading selfies here because there are other methods that honestly are more state-actor oriented, but scrubbing exif isn’t something I’d think any platform would first-thing do. Major kudos.
imgur has done it for a long time (maybe always?) I’m pretty sure discord does it too.
Every platform does it. Including Meta, Snap, Pinterest, etc.
I don’t think it’s to protect their users but just to save on storage space
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👀 time for a new account? I really like my name though I think it’s clever 😭
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Oh I posted too much there is no doubt Im gonna have to burn this account soon.
Mine is also super stale at this point
once you reveal 3 or 4 things about yourself the number of potential other people it could be shrinks significantly. How many gay german expats live in Dallas?
Excellent post, you should do an opsec guide if you have the time at some point
Probably for opsec reasons.
Yeh. I’d never even considered that people would post pictures of their mooscels. As a general rule people don’t post pictures of themselves on Hexbear.
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Anything can eventually identify you if you post images in several contexts, on several different social media places, and don’t really particularly keep track of what you have revealed about yourself.
You’re not just posting a picture of your physique in isolation, you’re also posting pictures of whatever room you have taken them in, details about your hair or lack of visible hair will be noticed etc.
People don’t need a good reason to eventually target someone, you can fall under the panopticon for literally any reason.
if you post a picture from the same camera anywhere you can be automatically identified from slight defects in your camera that are imperceptible to the human eye
wild
Yes but I’m so uniquely sexy that I am easy to spot as the sexiest person alive tru story no cap
That is why mothman loves you so
Nothing stopping you from posting yours
You may have noticed people don’t post pics of themselves on here period, this is for good reason. Hell even only a handful of people post pictures of their pets.
The last time someone posted a pic they were fucking huge, then it got removed for self-doxx
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Body shaming people for not wanting to dox themselves?
You don’t need to post pictures of your body in order to discuss fitness.
Absolutely no fat-shaming, skinny-shaming, or shape-shaming.
Don’t shame or disparage people for their fitness level.
Do not offer unsolicited criticism.
You’re a mod too; I expect better.
Typical mod behaviour.
AMAB includes me
It was an ironic joke mocking gym bro culture, I’m sorry
Apology accepted. I took it at face value after it made me raise my eyebrow.
to a poster. Whomst amogus hasn’t posted too close to the sun?
Nice try FBI!
I run twice a week and have a dad bod.
This is literally me
Using dead pixels to fingerprint your photo and an AI to sort through the publicly available social media posts to find a match because nobody thinks about or takes the time to use a photo editor to try to add some “imperceptible to the eye” random static to try to reduce the AI’s effectiveness.
