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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I'm not sharing this to shit on anyone at #RWC2026. My favorite people in tech are often found there, and the organizers put a lot of thought, effort, and care into making the vibe good.

I also don't ascribe any malice to the speakers. They probably didn't think to ask these questions, and didn't think to put them in their slide deck. Maybe they've self-selected into an environment that doesn't foster that kind of inquiry. Maybe they considered it but cut it out for time.

But if we're going to talk about this sort of thing,, we need to actually address these questions, even if there isn't a comfortable answer.

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existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

If Iran blows up Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos I promise you here and now that I WILL convert to Islam and join the Butlerian Jihad.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

"No" is a better privacy-enhancing technology than the state-of-the-art differential privacy techniques.

It's efficient! Not collecting data requires at most O(1) bandwidth, O(1) storage, and O(1) compute.

"No" is not "Maybe later".

"No" is not "Ask me again in 3 days".

"No" is not "Maybe after a few more beers", since many of the people that need to hear the first part of his message likely also needs the second.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:

@soatok They seem to forgot why Tor is popular in the first place.. and why the majority of users of Tor like it.. They don't want to be cataloged. They want to be left alone.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Here's a privacy-enhancing technology for you to consider:

"No."

You don't need to know. You don't need to measure. The efficacy of advertising campaigns, market segmentation, and relevance targeting should be minimized for the good of humanity.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

At #RealWorldCrypto this year, there was a session on "privacy-enhancing technologies".

The first talk in the session was about a new encryption method for Tor.

The next two were painful examples of "a person cannot be convinced of something when their salary depends on them not knowing it".

Advertisers wants to collect signals about populations without being individually identifying. So let's talk about differential privacy techniques to let them do that.

One example was "Meta wants to know what percentage of its teneage users blocked a contact today".

At no point did they address the elephants in the room.

• Why do they want this data in the first place?
• What are they even doing with this signal?
• Have you considered telling them to fuck off and not collect it in the first place?

As tempting as it might be to hand wave it, and say "well yes but their business model depends on it", I say to advertisers, "then perish".

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

i don't recommend actually watching it since he is clearly brainwormed in multiple ways but i am feeling waves of curiosity from people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbMXi9q78Tk

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

incidentally it's quite hilarious hearing someone talk about security in the same breath as AI

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

One more thought about Connor before I move on.

The irony of Conner funding his girlfriend's play. Connor, who believes free market capitalism is the answer to everything, invested hundreds of thousands in *live theatre* lmao.

He's seems completely oblivious to the fact that capitalism continues to kill the arts, and what exists must accept donations, grants, and other government handouts to survive.

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

holy crap this video has everything

• self confessed non-expert
• that uses AI extensively by choice
• and hates it
• but is going to be relentlessly positive
• prayer for the listener at the end of the video

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
chillybot@infosec.exchange ("Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :fedora:") wrote:

#DS9 #StarTrek

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

let's talk about how this tool does tons of stuff and i hate it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion
In a Capitol Hill briefing, officials gave their most comprehensive assessment of the cost of the first six days of the war, but the number omitted several aspects of the operation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/world/middleeast/iran-war-costs-pentagon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wizzy@noc.social ("Andy Rabagliati") wrote:

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse. 3/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

50 years ago tonight, crazy horse trippin' at the budokan. https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/185911293867/neil-young-crazy-horse-budokan-hall-tokyo

![The show at the Nippon Budokan Hall Tokyo on March 11 was being filmed for a documentary and recorded for a live album, and-without telling their bandmates-Billy and Poncho dropped acid before going on. "We did 'Cowgirl in the Sand' and Billy and Ralph went up to sing the backgrounds," Poncho continues. "I opened my eyes and saw big manda- las comin' out of the back of both their heads, all these colors 'n shit. I couldn't even look up, I was so high. I'd hit the strings of my guitar-they were like eighty different colors and they bounced off the floors and hit the ceiling. At the end of the second song Neil came runnin' over, stuck his head between me and Billy and goes, 'Man, we're psychedelic tonight!' ] just looked at Billy, thinkin', 'He told him, he told him.' The whole rest of the night I don't even think we made a mistake. It was unbelievable."]4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

One more thought about Connor before I move on.

The irony of Conner funding his girlfriend's play. Connor, who believes free market capitalism is the answer to everything, invested hundreds of thousands in *live theatre* lmao.

He's seems completely oblivious to the fact that capitalism continues to kill the arts, and what exists must accept donations, grants, and other government handouts to survive.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

(Aaaand I’m back on Pokopia.)

https://tv.neatnik.net/?pokemon-pokopia

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

first try at getting a "player character" UI up for my seekrit project. it is crude, it needs lots of work, and still... it ain't how high the elephant flies the first try, it is the fact that it flies at all.

[decision layer] (human w GUI or s/w)
[AI/XO layer]
[operations layer]

[sol system server]

(at this point, the NPCs are murderous and the PC is half-wired)

https://boris.arghstudios.com/images/firstTryAtChar.mp4

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vicfroh ("Victator") wrote:

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Has anyone received their "I write alt text" t-shirt yet? I'd love to see some pictures / hear some feedback 🙂

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

The human.json thing was big news a couple of days ago, but I finally put down Pokémon Pokopia for long enough to make one myself. I also finally made the /ai slash page that I’ve been putting off publishing for too long.

https://www.neatnik.net/ai/

https://www.neatnik.net/.well-known/human.json

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jackeric@beige.party wrote:

@fromjason have you seen this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-6K2CjJ6dk

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

so the next time alex crashes the car

optimistic, then?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

In the end, none of them won. They couldn't work together so, someone outside the family took power. But it's even worse than that.

Each of Logan's kids has a strong skill.

Roman can read people.

Shiv can get people to go against their best interests.

Kendall understands the financial mechanics of the business.

Connor is impervious to mean people (lol).

Working together, they could've saved the empire. But they rather destroy what they couldn't have.

Scary notion.

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

we know that engineers think it's weldable, but is it weldable in real life?

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

perfection

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

man, if you thought afghanistan/iraq were bad, Iran seems significantly more prepared for a US attack and way more willing to drag it out for a very long time.

The people in charge are really just not very smart.

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soph@grrl.me ("Sophia J. Turner") wrote:

Can we just put it bluntly?

If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.

To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'll get to Kendall later...🙂

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

light enough that a budget airline would let you take it on as hand luggage

100g?