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• Post #4379679

  Had a dream I was talking to someone and they told me their middle name was "Sunday" but they were thinking of changing it to "Bureaucratic Friday" I woke up trying to figure out which way they intended the joke

• Post #4369510

  The title of this video did not disappoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLCZ_Ic1hI

• Post #4243461

  I get some weird emails. How do I break it to them that "Barkane Arts" is a joke organization name that I came up with as a play on the term "computer wizardry" (but with more furry) rather than an LLC registered in any state?

• Post #4238409

  Every time the Red Cross declares a different level of alarm over blood shortages, my gay ass who is excluded from donating blood is like "Hmm, do I want to abstain from gay sex for a full calendar year in order to help fix a problem for a system that discriminates against people like me?" and then I shrug.

• Post #4236157

  I suspect someone's using an LLM to scrape all of my writing whenever I see anomalies like this.

• Post #4186054

  This week, something reminded me of a weird experience I've had over the years. I was probably intending to blog about it at some point, but it's a difficult topic to cover without sounding weirdly self-congratulatory, and I kind of hate that tone. I dunno, maybe it's from years of working in tech? :V One of the hazards you'll face if you share any of my hobbies or interests is other people--well-meaning, honest, and usually very kind people--praising your apparent "intell...

• Post #3932612

  I don't drink alcohol but at furry room parties I'm known to ask for something stiff

• Post #3865866

  The prevalence of spaghetti code in core infrastructure is clearly a homage to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

• Post #3845592

  RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116925912306713260 I made a rather important update to this post for folks who hadn't been chewing on the threat model of E2EE for the past 4+ years. https://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee/#public-key-profile

• Post #3841565

  https://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee

• Post #3840984

  The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I've certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been…... http://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee/

• Post #3835576

  Amazon can't help themselves when it comes to including "Simple" and "Managed" in a new service name because, looking at their warehouses, the upper management is clearly into S&M.

• Post #3811712

  Me, months ago: "Wow, there's nothing I feel like writing about. Work is extremely busy. I'll put it off." Me, now: "Wow, there are so many things to write about that it's hard to choose which one to finish first. Work is extremely busy. I'll put it off."

• Post #3719647

  Vaguely incorrectly remembering the time when @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange : "The empty string is the prefix to all strings" People doing domain separation wrong:

• Post #3697114

  looking at IETF mailing list Boy, Jacob Appelbaum's understanding of KEMs is as shallow as his apparent understanding of boundaries and consent, huh?

• Post #3696394

  Since the EU has made Chat Control 1.0 a thing, I should remind everyone that even having a plaintext mode at all is gross negligence for an E2EE system https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/

• Post #3657220

  OK, help me settle a debate. Is ASN.1 Turing complete? (Accidentally Turing Complete counts. Proofs of concept are welcome.)

• Post #3655209

  The specification for Post-Quantum signature algorithms for HTTP Message Signatures (IETF RFC 9421) is now live. http://c2sp.org/httpsig-pq@v0.1.0

• Post #3653948

  I understand why they're important/useful/whatever for businesses, but I hate doing self-assessments. At the end of the day, if I were a bullshit artist, I could spin my past six months as 10/10 on pretty much all metrics. But I am not so arrogant.

• Post #3651922

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116878280185730300 It would be so fucking funny if they lose

• Post #3623846

  Hey, reminder if you're new here: https://soatok.blog/2024/09/09/doesnt-matter/

• Post #3619282

  Well, shit. Signal now lets group admins delete for everyone. So now you can curate your discussion groups and delete messages that aren't welcome.

• Post #3614466

  Me: "All the so-called private messaging apps have inferior cryptography engineering and need to step up their game. It kind of sucks that Signal is the only game in town that has decent e2ee. We can do better. The community just has to have higher standards and stop settling for bad designs." Random people: "Signal shill"

• Post #3587905

  In some games, humans can wear two rings and a neck piece with enchantments. Furries should have a fourth accessory slot: A sort of bangle at the base of their tail.

• Post #3557456

  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/T7z8M-wL_2nOpbJtehTqtGYjuWg/ I ran out of patience. This TLS thread is full of some of the dumbest fucking opinions I've read in a technical discussion in years.

• Post #3508761

  Ah, I see someone submitted my latest blog post to lobsters and the comments are the usual wankfest of tone-policing. Hobbyless behavior.

• Post #3496262

  Looks like I get to reset the number of days since someone tried to pitch native advertising to the Soatok "team" to [0].

• Post #3487165

  Guess what my latest blog post is about from this image

• Post #3478403

  It's been like two, going on three, months since I've done anything marginally useful. I don't know if I'll do anything worth mentioning for the rest of 2026. Y'all can feel free to unfollow if you're not interested in my non-tech bullshit. It's cool.

• Post #3340447

  Just had a great conversation with @eff@mastodon.social and Luísa Franco Machado from EquiLabs https://www.youtube.com/live/1hG2kx2w-2o