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EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Outfit of the day for Trans Day of Visibility. I don’t hide my history online because my accounts have 20-30 years of history. But in person I just sort of blend into the background now. I never expected to “pass” in general, so it’d weird getting to a point where I need to flag with jewelry or clothes to signify my safety to other queer people now. 💜💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

So listen.

All LLM "red teaming" is kind of a joke because of the impossibility of verifiably defending the space. There will always be a smarter mouse/jailbreak/prompt injection. But embedded application testing—that is, testing AI features once incorporated into a separate application—is uniquely pointless.

Most of the tooling to automate the drudgery of LLM red teaming assumes API access to the model/application, against which it will fire endless prompts and evaluate responses. But once the app is embedded in an application, that access is almost never available. What's left is direct application access—in other words, clicking your way to glory. Maybe you want to try to Computer Use your way to a solution, but odds are you'll just end up doing this manually. And so doing a less thorough job. And so defending even less of the possibility space.

LLMs are fundamentally insecurable, but if you only get to them once they're baked into another application, that's somehow even more the case.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"There is a pervasive billionaire assumption that mainstream legacy journalism is 'liberal,' and there’s a big market for news that gets outside of the liberal bubble. That billionaire view is simply wrong. The nature of our current political moment is that the American right today is anti-empirical and anti-civic. That’s why when the Post or now CBS News goes searching for these underserved viewers hungering for journalism outside the liberal bubble, they fail. Because in a basic sense the current American right simply isn’t interested in news or journalism as most of us conceive it."

🎁 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/neutrality-authoritarianism-and-thoughts-on-the-cult-of-both-sides/sharetoken/698853da-696d-4e19-bef8-7a504700f5f7

#USPol

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange ("Allan Chow") wrote:

I'm getting this impression that a lot of software developers would rather attempt to train an AI agent rather than train a person.

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NatalyaD@disabled.social wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

A BiCon in 2017 invited a local sexual health clinic to do testing and advice one afternoon. It was a great idea and if I'm ever stupid enough to run a convention again I will try and make this happen.

Sex is not a bad thing.

Safer sex is awesome and making it easy, safe, socially acceptable and positive to access safer sex advice can only be a good thing.

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iangclifton@androiddev.social ("Ian G. Clifton") wrote:

We need a new open source license that is like Apache 2.0, but any company that made more than a billion dollars in profit during a year where they also had layoffs is ineligible.

#opensource

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
what@chaosfem.tw ("esc key") wrote:

When policies are enacted that target transwomen, I often see liberal responses in the form, “this is bad! This will mostly hurt cis women!”
…
Let me say this very clearly: Even if anti-trans policy had no collateral damage, it would still be bad.

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gsnedders@glauca.space ("Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I know plenty of cis people who view statements like “death before detransition” as hyperbole, but it’s really hard to express quite how bad both the discomfort of living as a gender you are not, day in a day out, and being on the wrong hormones, actually is.

For #TDOV this year, consider what you can do to push back on the rising anti-trans movement, and put that into action over the next year. If you’re unsure, here’s some actions:

• write to your elected representatives (and candidates, if there are elections coming up), and push back;
• look at spaces you frequently go (whether a cafe or your office, etc!) and push back on any sort of “biological” distinction between restrooms (either by not allowing such a distinction to be introduced or by changing them all to be unisex);
• imagine your new coworker is a stealth trans person: is there anything that could make your workspace more comfortable for them?

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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

Do not shame Kristy Noem’s husband for wearing clothes different than his gender. That’s fine. Wear whatever. If you feel cute, you’re cute.

Shame that fucker for being married to someone as fucking horrible as Noem.

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

happy trans day of vengeance 🏳️‍⚧️

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rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

If I remember the right wing culture war talking points correctly: since it's Transgender Day of Visibility, it's also Easter I think?

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gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

I'm trans and stuck in Texas because nobody will hire me and I can't take my job with me when I move to Seattle. So my options are move and end up homeless, or stay where I am in increasing danger.

I have 12+ years of experience in call center work and legitimately just need a job so I can move.

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gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

Actually, let me try something different than just asking for money for TDOV:

If you have any possible leads or hiring power for a job that hires for WFH customer/tech support out of Washington state PLEASE message or DM me and if you don't please share this.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

You can be a happy couple no matter who is wearing a dress or camouflage fatigues.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/31/oh-no-i-agree-with-nancy-mace/

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zersiax@cupoftea.social ("Florian") wrote:

I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I am happy to be visible to other trans people, to people who might actually be trans and not yet realize it, and to cis people who want to use that visibility to advocate for me and people like me.

I'm not happy to be visible to people who want me hurt or even dead, and I am not happy to be visible to people who want to use me as a wedge to hurt others.

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welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Does anyone here have any experience running or even just attending a community space that's a kind of drop-in art studio/creative workspace? Like somewhere that has a bunch of different art and craft supplies and tools, you can take your own project, you can speak with people there, learn new skills, try the stuff they've got, etc.

I'm interested in knowing what activities went on there, how you ran it or what you got from it as a participant, etc.

:boost_ok:

#AskFedi

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

PyCon US 2026 is May 13th to 19th in Long Beach, California. If you've been meaning to learn to program, I'm doing a 3-hour tutorial (additional registration required) for absolute beginners who have never coded before. I hope to see you there! https://us.pycon.org/2026/

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pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Go on, you want to own this iconic piece of computer history that's got rather more than usual under the hood: https://www.amibay.com/threads/amiga-a1000-vampire-complete-system.2458361/.

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

It'd be like saying "the rapture is coming and the worthy dead will soon return to the bosom of Christ, so make sure to keep eating fiber"

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

One of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?

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MSTODAYnews@flipboard.com ("Mississippi Today") wrote:

Federal 'God Squad' exempts oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules - Mississippi Today
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/03/31/gulf-oil-gas-drilling-endangered-species/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mississippi Today @mississippi-today-MSTODAYnews

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"Post-Chiles, Dobbs, and Skrmetti, states can deprive people of reproductive autonomy and youth of gender-affirming care, while simultaneously allowing medical and non-medical actors use falsehoods to deprive people of abortion or discourage them from living as themselves."

https://bsky.app/profile/gemmadonofrio.bsky.social/post/3miekfh2zpk25

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copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

China is salivating over the fact that the US has fired a bunch of their tomahawk & Patriot missiles. They know Hegseth is incompetent, predictable & trigger happy. They manipulate Trump with flattery.

They likely know when our stockpiles are running low, based on the current burn rate. If replacements are long lead times, then they can strike at Taiwan & not worry about the American response.

Trump may say it’s too far away, let the allies in the Pacific handle CHYNA.

#nobootsontheground

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

what a lovely idea

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acdha@code4lib.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

The NPM Axios package maintainer suffered an account takeover:

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Even if you’re unaffected now, it’s a great time to set a dependency cooldown period for everything you use.

If you use #NodeJS, enable minimum package age in NPM/PNPM/Bun/Yarn.

If you use #Python, enable exclude-newer in uv, minimum age in pip, or help the Poetry maintainers finish the open PR: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/10763

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ma po don'tfu

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Iran, despite the decapitation of its leadership, has dealt the United States a strategic defeat in the classical sense. It will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

https://www.forever-wars.com/so-you-lost-a-war-to-iran/

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-103/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics