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@ben@mastodon.lubar.me I have laughed so hard I now have a bad case of hiccups
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mom maker breaker hacker witch wife
aspiring riot grrl
"...but first they must catch you."
Currently living in her own private Idaho
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@da_667@infosec.exchange
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The same bros who say AI is inevitable and "as necessary as air" are the same weirdos who go out in the woods to build lean-tos with a $500 scandi blade made from space age alloys to "reconnect with primitiveness" and who won't eat a damn potato because cave men didn't farm them.
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@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange If you're thinking concealed carry, yes. We have the technology.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange
@cR0w@infosec.exchange @krypt3ia@infosec.exchange There is a gigantic gas tank down by the water just south of Boston, and across the street is a very popular and old independent market that makes wonderful prepared foods for lunch. When I worked at the hospital I would go to the market, grab something to eat, then go sit near the gigantic gas tank to have my lunch.
Now, I had that job because of a terrorist event, and I work in security, so I had the same thoughts every single time.
Somewhere around 2016 I went and they had finally put up a chain link fence around it.
It was like seeing someone put a bandaid over a gunshot wound.
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@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange Ok, so - wear that, wear a white shirt over it, and go eat a sloppy joe. That's what it's like to have boobs with all the sexuality removed from the equation.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social This is the purest and most beautiful recounting of American male bonding I have ever seen.
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@foobarsoft@mastodon.social
@foobarsoft@mastodon.social Oh, they get real indignant if I do that, and imply that I'm the one with the unusual demands.
Usually I'm just sitting there thinking I have cleavage, you think that would "remind" people the masc ship sailed and it's never coming back
Like is it really less awkward for them to call someone with obvious boobs by a boy name?
Half the time it makes other people around think they've lost their minds.
The truly obnoxious thing though is when they "forget" clearly to tell other people of my originally assigned first name. Like it's not bad enough to get my name wrong, they want to make sure other people know which one will piss me off the most.
The psychology of transphobia would fascinate me if I wasn't living in it.
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@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io That was far more beautiful a thing to read than I was prepared for. Thank you for it, I think I understand at least a little bit more now, and it fit the missing context of your statement like a puzzle piece. I'm glad you got to experience that ❤️
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange (Rabbit was the nickname my parents used instead of my legal first name.)
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@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange Ironically they can't apparently remember "Rabbit". They instead "forget" and call me by my birth assigned first name MY OWN PARENTS DIDN'T USE.
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@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io Doc have you written anything about what that term means to you? I understand the meaning or the term, I think, but I don't have enough context to parse what you mean by "It was nice to be, to be seen as, altersex on the right way in public for a few hours." and that sounds like that kind of thing I would really enjoy understanding.
Cis people - I'm starting to think maybe you don't actually "forget" my name and pronouns. I mean, I gave y'all the benefit of the doubt the first 100 times or so you "forgot", but seriously, invest in some ginko or something. Get that checked.
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social
@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space I noticed the same thing! I heard "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and I thought -oh, that's why I never see that song on Spotify under Garbage..
Just in case you were a teenager in 1995/1996 and made this same mistake:
Elastica and Republica are not the same band.
Elastica did "Connection" and Republica did "Ready to go"
Thank you, you may return to your business now.
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange @InfoSecSherpa@infosec.exchange Ahh, it's under "medications" - but I could swear this was more explicit about trans women in the past.
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@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange
@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange @InfoSecSherpa@infosec.exchange I could swear this changed, because somewhere in here they used to be more explicit about dutasteride and finasteride, and I thought it was in the HRT section
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@luxliquida@lgbtqia.space
@luxliquida@lgbtqia.space @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @julie@merida.hair I mean, in the meantime, AI is rapidly destroying the security of everything it touches, and at some point they will need us to fix that mess.
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange The only thing that breaks my heart more is knowing the trans community has seen infosec as one of the places where they are accepted enough and can potentially earn enough for their care needs, and that is also drying up. Even for those of us who have played the infosec game our whole career.
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@da_667@infosec.exchange
@da_667@infosec.exchange My smoker perpetually becomes home to hornets. You may find it worth your time to fit some metal screens over openings (that can be removed for cleaning)
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@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social
@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social I hadn't considered that I'm simply easier to ignore..
After a lifetime of finding it effortless to be a thorn in the side of authority, I find it more difficult lately.
There is no reduction in my desire, there is only increased difficulty finding solid ground from which to make principle stands.
I don't know if that speaks more about myself or the state of the world.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@wired/security-news-f9no9s7gz/-/a-SJyclEaETBSQuwwYcqZ3Xw%3Aa%3A3199480-%2F0
I was quite ready to bust out some of my past research into the inability to verify the non-existence of hardware backdoors, but I have to tell you "it's IR transparent so you can inspect the die" is quite cool.
I'm jealous I won't be getting my hands on one of these this year
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
Sorry, I just had a Sarah Connor-esque vision of Web 3.0 Flock and I'm very sorry for what I've done by reminding the world the original existed. I understand if you send a T100 to prevent me from remembering it in the first place.
I just remembered the Flock browser used to exist. I wonder what that concept would look like in 2026.
Particularly the Fediverse variant.
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@tati@eldritch.cafe
@tati@eldritch.cafe I have some insight about what they are going to do and why and what impacts it has, if that's interesting to you.
People say some wild stuff to me in interviews.
Today the candidate asked me if my name was a joke.
My dude, maybe stow that during an interview?
I have seen the movie Twister about 200 times (literally, I managed a Blockbuster and I would run it on the TV often)
I didn't realize until tonight that one of the characters is named Rabbit.
Today my wife and I took our daughter to the doctor. We both went because my wife works in schools and is off for the summer.
I was talking to the receptionist to check in and she said. "so you're obviously mom (to me) and you are? (to my wife)"
Imma be ridin' on that euphoria buzz for a while.
Also I enjoyed how it didn't get any less awkward when I said "She's also mom."
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@jonny@neuromatch.social
re: Microdosing LLMs, self inflicted vibe coding, slopgazing. Long-ish
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@jonny@neuromatch.social Every conversation I have had with engineers about how they iterate this process has moved toward "I engineer prompts that eliminate as much ambiguity as possible, and it's frustrating because the limiting factor is often English itself."
And I keep thinking, if only we had some sort of less ambiguous symbolic instruction code with which to model what we want the computer to do..
Every house buying show on HGTV starts with "I carve raisin sculptures for a living and my wife is a wedding planner for ferets. Our budget is 7.5 million."
For some reason my brain has been demanding that I write creatively lately.
Great plan, take up writing exactly when the world is being flooded with algorithmically generated text.
"Oh me? I'm not doing much, I'm just introducing exogenous lipid-soluble steroidal compounds across my plasma membranes to bind intracellular receptors, causing receptor dimerization and translocation into cell nuclei to bind EREs and modify my coactivators and corepressors during transcription and subsequent protein production. What are you up to?"
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@purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay
@purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay Trans dudes are the coolest. They love being themselves and that’s awesome. That they describe feeling exactly the way I always did, but in reverse, is like looking in the mirror, and it’s an incredibly validating shared experience.
Who doesn’t love a good round of “Oh my gods you like that? I always hated it!”
I made vegan borscht and added beans so I’m calling it пизде́ц soup
I wrote a thing about how conservatives keep trying to claim I'm dangerous, but also that I don't exist.
Content warning: 🇨🇦
https://abbynormal.blog/2026/07/23/castles-in-the-sky/
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
BRB, continuing the InfoSec tradition of starting a company that will verify your "rogue AI" claims and say that somehow it's China's fault.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116963915911110345
New "An intern did it" just dropped
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OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company https://apnews.com/article/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3
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@agowa338@chaos.social
@agowa338@chaos.social Oh right. I forget that's a thing people actually use though.
Then again IIRC it's incredibly popular.
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@purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay
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@purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay Gay autistic bunny solidarity fren.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493
There's one browser platform that isn't Google and it's becoming less appealing all the time.
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@eltonfc@bertha.social
@eltonfc@bertha.social I would agree, I just don't know if legal minds have weighed in on this.
The real question I'm wondering is, why hasn't Creative Commons added a "Use for training?" parameter to make it explicit. Seems like an obvious thing for people to want, to me.
Understanding license is not my forte, but I'm curious- is the creative commons CC BY-NC-ND license, which prohibits redistribution considered to bar the use of content to be used for training AI?
The specific text is "If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material."
That feels like it can be weasled around by saying they're not distributing a modified version of the material, they are just using measurements of it.
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io What I was hoping to illustrate, after I thought about it, is that sometimes the local maxima that meets the requirements (there's a bathroom trans people feel safe in and cis people accept it) is not the full, equitable, globally maximal solution (trans people should feel safe in whatever bathroom is right for them and cis people accept it)
Without cis folks pointing out the injustice (and trans folks being brave enough not to accept it) we're going to get stuck in that well of inequality.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I used to wonder why black folks back then put up with what was clearly racist.
Now I think about that when I get all excited because there's a gender neutral family one-stall bathroom I can use because the two gendered options both feel unsafe.
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@ra6bit@infosec.exchange
@masukomi@connectified.com Actually, I'm only 47. I turn 48 in the not to0 distant future but I forgot and jumped the gun.