Tobias Horvath

@tobyx
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Writing things. Infosec. Visual Effects Artist. Design. Code. 🏳️‍🌈

I’m only moderately old and like to dance to imaginary music.

websitehttps://tobyx.com
pronounshe/him
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
Huh. Xcode-beta 4 shows Xcode-beta 3 in Settings > Platforms. How to fix? #xcode Please help :D
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
AHHHHHHHHHHH. So in an attempt to avoid further private messages with confused people, let me clarify:
- Trans rights are human rights
- White privilege exists
- Black lives matter
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
Faith, purple-haired feminist   Jul 30, 2023

I love watching other people find themselves in ways I find entirely unrelatable. Trans dudes loving their masculinity. Non-binary people confusing the crap out of me. Altersex folks and their body mods. Gay dudes being into other dudes. I don't get any of it, it's not for me, but it's beautiful. 🥰

I also find it profoundly healing. I thought my own needs were weird and therefore disallowed for so many years. Seeing other people fill their needs in ways I don't understand makes me feel like it's okay to fill my needs, even if other people like my family don't understand. Others understanding isn't the point. Living as whole, free people is. 💜

Show threadTobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
I used to think, “Well if Apple just made a sandboxing system that goes beyond the App Store and is also enforced on side-loaded apps, it'd be great!”, but sandboxing alone isn't a solution. We need a steward that decides on a case-by-case basis access to APIs that allow profile building on users. APIs that can and will be abused. And the likes of Meta would simply make their own store and force people to use it, count on it. We'd be worse off than we are right now.
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023

And another #unpopularopinion on the Digital Markets Act. lol. Everyone will hate me: Side-loading will make everything worse. The current model of trust in the App Store (I agree some of it is security theater and most of it is Apple wanting a huge monetary piece of the pie, which is why we're at this point in the first place) paired with sandboxing and limited access to APIs is a very fine line to walk. iOS does so better than anyone else and yet they improve upon it with every release.

🧵

Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
Here's an #unpopularopinion on the Digital Markets Act :D I think Apple Pay should remain the only viable solution on iOS to access payment features of the NFC chip. The only ones who would benefit from opening this would be large banking institutions but at a huge cost to ease of use to the consumer. The consumer would lose in every case.
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
I need a new instance.
Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023

I currently have ... 22 registered domains.

:) Please send help.

Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
ZumbadorJul 12, 2023

To celebrate my books “going wide” (being for sale outside of Amazon) they’re all free until 31 July. Except on Amazon. I can’t make those free for amazonian reasons.

Science Fiction and Contemporary Fantasy set in alternate world South Africa.

*We Broke the Moon*
https://books2read.com/We-Broke-the-Moon

*Ray and the Cat Thing*
https://books2read.com/Ray-and-the-Cat-Thing
A friend called this book “like falling face first into a Ghibli movie.”

Linked Worlds Series: Someone here on mastodon called this “hard boiled and cozy” 
*The Babylon Eye*
https://books2read.com/The-Babylon-Eye
*The Real*
https://books2read.com/The-Real
*The Strange*
https://books2read.com/The-Strange

Crooked Word Series:
*Crooks & Straights*
https://books2read.com/Crooks-and-straights
*Wolf Logic*
https://books2read.com/Wolf-Logic

The Sisters Series:
*The Story Trap*
https://books2read.com/The-Stroy-Trap
*The Broken Path*
https://books2read.com/The-Broken-Path

More information on these books at https://masha.co.za/

#fantasy #scifi #FantasyBooks #ScienceFiction #LGBTQBooks

Available now at your favorite digital store!

We Broke the Moon by Masha du Toit

Tobias HorvathJul 30, 2023
I never really posted something about myself. It's kinda hard. Here goes:
I like cats and dogs. Recently more fond of cats because of a person in my life. I'm a horrifically gay cis man. My pronouns are he/him. I don't eat dead animals (or live ones). All things code and infosec are a hobby of mine as I work as a visual effects and finishing for a living. I like learning about people with differing opinions to mine so that I can learn from them. Hai I'm Toby. 👋 #introduction