Posts by soatok@furry.engineer
(DIR) Post #B4Aduz7AZNDWotQpM0 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-11T22:35:38Z
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During the coffee breaks and dinner conversations, everyone I talked to about these things echoed my frustrations.In 2024, a speaker from Intuit spoke about their distributed key generation protocol. It involved multiplying a number by a hash. They did not elaborate on whether that's just a bigint operation or an elliptic curve group operation. @sophieschmieg was like, "Why would they do that? What if they set it to zero?" and the backchatter was full of "Why are the tax people rolling their own crypto?"So, like, I'm not super worried about adtech rotting the RWC community.
(DIR) Post #B4Adv3RsSK9sGH9QBc by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-11T22:54:09Z
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Last thing: When I said "No" is a Privacy-Enhancing Technology, I didn't just mean an opt-out.I mean the engineers growing a fucking spine and telling their boss, "No, we shouldn't collect this data in the first place."
(DIR) Post #B4NjQZG0LybARD48ZM by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-18T12:13:19Z
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Banned from the Linux user group for saying "so this is like a kink thing, right?"#FreeAsInFreeUse
(DIR) Post #B4NjQjzkQl89jyXoG0 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-18T12:15:21Z
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I'm not a slut, I'm a GNU/Bottom
(DIR) Post #B4NjRA4xS0kMdfBKzI by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-18T12:18:57Z
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Ban reason: Revealing forbidden knowledge to unprepared mortals
(DIR) Post #B4Pe0GrC20hUO31Od6 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-18T19:29:59Z
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Moore's Law is about doubling the number of trans sisters every 18 months
(DIR) Post #B4TvtroWnrf6mri7zk by soatok@furry.engineer
2025-09-13T19:48:41Z
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https://github.com/carthage-software/magoNice logo
(DIR) Post #B4TvttBbhXiX2jW4bg by soatok@furry.engineer
2025-09-13T19:50:31Z
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(DIR) Post #B4X4YwBapqBLKLTRWi by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-22T23:44:14Z
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116274789062787020Tangent, but this is one reason why I don't bother with "burner phones" at DEFCON.If my day to day security practices are insufficient for DEFCON, they're insufficient for day to day life. I'm just as likely to get attacked in a random cafe.I roll my eyes a bit at people who insist that burner phones are necessary.
(DIR) Post #B4X4Z1u5ZpkH3nKY4m by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-03-22T23:47:25Z
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A lot of security rituals you hear about from folks online are like this.This is the kind of culture that leads to giving blanket paranoid security advice without threat modelling first.
(DIR) Post #B4uJoTiiPBxXciugca by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-02T18:09:38Z
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Jeez, what a mess.https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/
(DIR) Post #B52c4vC5NZDVu9JxOC by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-06T23:32:57Z
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Y'know what's exhausting?gestures vaguely at humanity
(DIR) Post #B59qDDxIGdCfsDyUPA by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-10T15:37:27Z
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My life has come to "posting on IETF mailing lists"https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mls/goy5Lzp4Sqht5fUSQTXJuzpR9hU/
(DIR) Post #B5AOM8NZlVUXcxgjA0 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-10T23:26:15Z
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The Fediverse has the opportunity to do something hilarious here
(DIR) Post #B5AOMDI5VL4YrO9ung by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-10T23:29:42Z
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The funniest possible outcome is, of course, a three-way tie.
(DIR) Post #B5h9C33XcBKb7sj9hQ by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-26T18:43:55Z
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Post-quantum cryptography landed in PHP before GnuPGhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907018
(DIR) Post #B5h9C8eanqwKUF6Je4 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-04-26T18:44:26Z
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See also:https://github.com/soatok/age-php
(DIR) Post #B5thARORt3q0MkQmC8 by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-05-02T16:20:53Z
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We should seriously make and spread a satire product that replaces the C-Suite of a corporation with LLMsCite how expensive business leadership is in terms of worker payActually build a tool that integrates with LLMs but has a system prompt to automatically acquiesce on the formation of Unions or any other pro-labor activitiesLaugh when it outperforms actual CEOs if anyone is crazy enough to adopt it
(DIR) Post #B5zpYw4pQHy93qCilk by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-05-05T18:56:36Z
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Some of y'all give up on your dreams too quickly
(DIR) Post #B6NrO5A3Ua1kfF27fs by soatok@furry.engineer
2026-01-28T19:35:03Z
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Horrible idea:Disclose vulns in the speech bubbles of furry porn commissions