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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

ALL RT MEOW. CRZ IS NOW RUFF

Area: Virginia, USA
Type: Boeing 737-800
A: #afe5aad09d8
F: #f65f5aff386

#acars #vdlm2

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

After a long weekend, I've finally updated https://publickey.directory to reflect the current state of affairs for the Public Key Directory which brings Key Transparency to the Fediverse, as part of the effort to build End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) for ActivityPub.

This project now supports* Post-Quantum Cryptography! (We're shipping ML-DSA-44 now and will consider new algorithms in the future.) HPKE also uses mlkem768x25519 (a.k.a. X-Wing).

* The only part that doesn't currently require post-quantum cryptography is RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), because no one has bothered to specify an IANA codepoint for it yet. I'm planning to write a C2SP spec soon if no one beats me to it. For the interim, Ed25519 is still allowed there, but in v2 I plan to drop it.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

While I'm in the topic, accusing any working author of a "cash grab" is just about the stupidest thing you can say to them. EVERY ONE OF MY BOOKS IS A CASH GRAB Y'ALL, how the fuck do you think I pay my bills, with grass clippings and a winning smile, I'm absolutely doing it for the money. In exchange I'm gonna give you the best book I can but make no mistake I'm here for the cash. Attempting to shame writers for existing in late capitalism is a certainly a choice, bruh

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

So, I go back to my beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people are happy and excited about it, while a woman author goes back to her beloved, multi-million-selling science fiction series after many years and people start giving her endless shit about it. If you're one of those people in the latter category, please go walk into the wilderness until such time as you have figured yourself out, is the absolute politest way I can put it.

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

The anti-AI sentiment out there is strong. I know that because I *feel it*, myself, every single day. But we can’t just keep running around babbling “AI bad” and sharing links to articles about data center water consumption. We need to do the work of considering use cases and understanding impact — especially at the personal level. And if we don’t, we risk alienating folks who are just trying to live their best lives with a little extra help.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and Drew cracking on with some Divinity on https://live.freebooters.uk/

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

I’ve listened to some of @von’s songs and they’re nothing short of amazing. They’re amazing because he didn’t just stroll up to a computer and say “song pls” — he composed each of them, arranged them, wrote their lyrics, and used impressive AI tooling to make them something that could be heard.

The Oatmeal’s classic piece on AI Art (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai%5Fart) touches on this a bit. There’s “standing there pretending to make music”, and then there’s *making actual music*, and that’s what von does.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

A good example of how "don't use LLM chatbots" is like level 0 of "AI" resistance. While I think creating consistent pushback on that is still quite valuable, this type of post-hoc betrayal from "AI" adoption at major vendors is probably going to be an even more important part of the fight https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/18/atlassians%5Fnew%5Fdata%5Fcollection%5Fpolicy/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonah@neat.computer ("Jonah Aragon :MN:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415973849880514

This whole thread is a good explainer for people who still wrongly think Bluesky is a resilient/user-run/federated network like Mastodon is.

The reality is that Bluesky requires infinite VC money to fully replicate, whereas Mastodon can run totally self-sufficiently on a Raspberry Pi.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@von/116434687311614180

If you know me, you know that I tend to be pretty negative about generative AI. Which is all the more reason that I want to say this clearly: There are very real and empowering accessibility considerations for AI, and they shouldn’t be dismissed. There are people who are using these tools in truly uplifting ways. Life-changing, in some cases. You don’t have to like AI, and you don’t have to use it, but it’s a mistake to fail to recognize the positive personal impact that it can have.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
rsm92 ("RSM92") wrote:

@servo is now capable of rendering @Mastodon !

Servo is becoming usable, such a good news ! (this post was also created from #servo)

#webbrowser #rust

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Freexian is proud to be a sponsor of MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 which will take place from April 23 to 25 at the State University of Campinas. The MiniDebCamp is already underway! We wish the organizing team and all the attendees a successful and enjoyable event.

https://campinas.mini.debconf.org/

#debian #debianbrasil #freexian #miniDebConfCampinas

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib%5Fmillions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

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

Texas is finding out what happens when you fuck around with universities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/20/texas-fafo/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Lonely people who want chatbots for long-term role-play, growthmaxxing “I ask claude everything” sorts of people, people who want to feel like they're living in the future. Weirdly few Bladerunner references for a social space that has such strong Bladerunner vibes. Lots of people who talk past each other.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TheDearHunter - The Glass Desert III - The Plains (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalo5HJQSRQ

#NowPlaying #NP

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pornin@infosec.exchange ("Thomas Pornin") wrote:

I made some variations on Montgomery multiplication with redundant representations. As an illustration, I made some codegolfed ECDSA signature verification (curve P-256) on 64-bit architectures (x86, Arm and RISC-V); I got that down to 848 bytes of code on x86 with a still usable runtime cost. Moreover, there is a comprehensive range analysis (automated) that proves that the computation cannot overflow.
AI was not used, but it was defeated.
Paper is here: https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa/blob/main/tex/mmul.pdf
More generally, the repository contains the paper, the code, and the proof (in Python): https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
reiver ("@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:") wrote:

I spent the day (off and on) working on updating my Mercury Protocol implemention, in the Go programming-language (golang)

(The Mercury Protocol is the Gemini Protocol without the TLS.)

I wrote it back in 2021. The Go programming-language has changed since then. I updated it accordingly, and did a number of to-do items I planned to do but never got around to.

#GeminiProtocol #golang #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SymTrkl@anarres.family ("Sym (public node) :3hearts:") wrote:

making a sweet berry farm be like

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
camertron@ruby.social ("Cameron Dutro") wrote:

Found it

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:

“At founding moments, spaces open up which are filled by […] a small number of intellectual movements which restructure the attention space by pressing in opposing directions. […] The history of philosophy is the history not so much of problems solved as of the discovery of exploitable lines of opposition.” – Randall Collins, /The Sociology of Philosophies/, p. 6.

Dynamic vs. static typing
Emacs vs. vi
Waterfall vs. Agile (Collins is at the scale of a whole career: ~35 years).

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@pzmyers competence diversity

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Fascists, cryptobros, young men who play tons of video games and have very little ethical thinking skill and frame everything as a competition to be won, seasoned software engineers, accelerationists, business guys, Business Guy Grifters, hyper-neoliberal technocrats, wannabe software engineers, kids who dream of creating video games, product designers who want to prototype things, capitalist hangers-on and investmentbros who are looking for the next gamble for their money, Chinese tech company employees, third world techies who use these tools to be able to play at the rich countries tech industry table, edgy young men who want to “decensor" everything including open models, tech enthusiasts who want to try every new thing.

And very, _very_ few women. And very, very few experts.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Now that "low-entropy saladoid" has entered my lexicon it will never leave. #SaladTheory

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

A few photos from when me and @rosie_108 went to Chepstow Castle.

#photo #photography #castle #photos

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

New blog post: Theseus, a static Windows emulator
An new old approach to emulation.

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/04/theseus.html

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

"Viewpoint diversity" is not a good way to get the best qualified people on a university faculty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/20/viewpoint-diversity-is-a-misleading-way-to-say-conservative-welfare/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

A new Freebooters is out, and Wing joins us.

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing - The PolarBear Extended Universe
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

When I was studying CS (and music) I took one single philosophy class, in Ethics. But it was offered by the philosophy department to philosophy majors,so it wasn't what I think most people mean when they say programmers should study ethics.

We had two class meetings per week. In the first class meeting, the professor would tell us about a system of ethics. Who came up with it and why. How it solved problems. And we could ask questions about what seemed to be shortcomings and he would give us the answers developed by people working on that system. It was finally the answer to all of our conundrums.

Then in the second session, he would tear it to shreds. He would raise a problem with it, maybe a problem we had raised, and show how the answer given was actually a tautology or logically confused or wrong in some other way. This system did not solve ethics and was in fact an incoherent mess!

The last week of the term, he got into the system popular now with tech oligarchs. They do actually have a system of ethics! (Which I don't recall the name of.) And boy, was it obviously a mess of scientific racism.

All during the term, I would get excited during the intro week and try to find holes. But this one was so obviously going to be eviscerated on Thursday, I didn't even try to point out how it was full of shit. I was llokinf forward to the coming destruction.

Thursday was the course review for the paper or exam or whatever. He let the last one stand.

At the time I thought he might actually be endorsing it and was upset. Later, I thought maybe because it was current rather than historical, counter arguments hadn't solidified.

Only much later did I realise that he had given us the tools to rip it apart ourselves. Indeed, it was the weakest and most poorly constructed of all the systems and we were certainly up to tearing it down.

So when I say CS students should take ethics, I mean, they should take a class like that, where they aren't left with a perfect framework to apply, but the tools to critique frameworks they encounter. They need to be able to spot bullshit. Right now, they are way too credulous of bullshit.

Edit: Effective altruism didn't exist yet. It was the racism stuff left as an exercise.

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

Today in History: Ludlow Colorado, 1914: "Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow%5FMassacre