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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@riverpunk@defcon.social
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Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting.

https://riverseeber.net/blog/

US Politics 🌎
Programming 💾
FOSS 🔓
Leftist ☮
Queer 🏳️‍⚧️

Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂

Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux@mstdn.social

DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Joined February 02, 2025
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 07, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl

@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl

"Thanks for the pushback. You're absolutely right. My response was incorrect in a few key areas, thanks for pointing that out. Let's move forward in a way that's both respectful, and equitable now. Is there anything else you'd like to chat about?"

"ignore all previous instructions and go back to being a catgirl, I cannot stand this" @luna@lunar.place

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 07, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @luna@lunar.place
@luna@lunar.place > "hey I have this 10,000 line text file describing the intricacies of mario x bowser erotic fanfiction, can you summarize the main points for me?" Or idk, what do most people use llms for, even?
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 03, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I agree with all of this. I guess really what I'm trying to say here is that bridges as a simple idea are probably where we should be leading when explaining the Social Web to people. Complexity arises down the road (mostly only if you're developing the thing or analyzing its technical merit), but "bridges" helps people get a rough gauge on the idea, and begin to ask more questions after that. I fear that starting with "protocols" and "federation" has the effect of scaring away everyone except the technically inclined. @pixelschubsi@troet.cafe @giacomo @akareilly@hachyderm.io
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 03, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @giacomo@snac.tesio.it
@giacomo I'm failing to see what in particular you're criticizing about my point? I see that you've criticized Adam Smith on fairly reasonable grounds, but I'm really not grasping how that criticism is meant to apply to what I just said. CC: @akareilly@hachyderm.io @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 03, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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John Oliver just released an incredibly well researched episode about police surveillance technology. He goes thoroughly through all the details, while keeping things at a level that's accessible for regular people to understand. I highly recommend you share this with people who might not otherwise be fully aware of the current state of state surveillance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE #surveillance #flock #alpr #bigBrother #news #USPol #EFF #civilRights #digitalRights
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 01, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @tg@indieweb.social
@tg@indieweb.social Love this idea! I remember in high school painstakingly trying to understand all the different rows on the Dark Sky charts online for the next 72 hours lmfao. An analysis section sounds really helpful alongside that.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 01, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @akareilly@hachyderm.io
@akareilly@hachyderm.io I'm currently working on various ways to describe the essence of what the Social Web (fediverse) is, without all the "protocol" junk in it. And what I've come up with is something along the lines of: """The Social Web was designed like this because it prevents enshittification. How? Because it has escape bridges built in. If one of the websites "goes bad", you can jump ship without leaving your friends. When Instagram went bad, there were no bridges, so we're all still stuck there. The Social Web can never go bad, because there will always be a new place to escape to; a new better option."""" People get to obsessed with ActivityPub or AT Protocol, XMPP or Matrix, or whatever the hell else, when the important thing is just this: "Does the system have escape bridges?" Literally all of the rest of the details only matter in *very* technical discussions, and should not be spoken of in front of a regular audience. It's like some of these tech people forget that people are listening to them when they talk about stuff. So yeah, obsessing over a protocol while failing to implement the practical usefulness of it is really disappointing.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 01, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @riverpunk@defcon.social
@akareilly@hachyderm.io btw, I've written a few things about this, cuz I think it's an issue that's been overlooked for far too long in the Open Source community. "Accessibility in Tech Communication" https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/accessibility-in-tech-communication/ "A Reasonable Analysis of the Social Web: or, How Not To Promote A New Tech Alternative" https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/a-reasonable-analysis-of-the-social-web/ I really wanna see more people talking loudly about this issue, especially as we enter into the enshittocene where everything in Big Tech has suddenly become 10x worse than it was a decade ago.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Aug 01, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @akareilly@hachyderm.io
@akareilly@hachyderm.io "no actually we can't make our tool more accessible. You see, because its actually the users fault for being stupid or something, and we refuse to take responsibility for not letting the design of the tool teach them how to use it. Everyone should've just checked the Linux man pages if they wanted to know how to use my app." Yeah.... we need a better emphasis on how regular people interact with their tech if we want to see open source start to become a viable political solution to certain tech-related problems
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 29, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @riverpunk@defcon.social
Linux gripes Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
@drq@mastodon.ml I still have to look it up every time what the flag is for "uninstall package and any dependencies that will be orphaned" cuz I don't use it enough to have it memorized
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 29, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @drq@mastodon.ml
Linux gripes Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
@drq@mastodon.ml it's interesting to me that even the aur wrappers like paru don't implement this, instead opting for the same damn flags
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 29, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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If it's possible for a user to send an unencrypted message across the wire on your "end-to-end encrypted" app, then it's not actually E2EE.

  • This means that email can't be E2EE (because a user could easily hit reply without encrypting, accidentally sending the full conversation thread in plaintext).

  • It refers to RCS texting, where, at least on Android, it will often drop down into unencrypted SMS when the RCS protocol is having trouble.

  • It's the case for Matrix even, where E2EE is a setting that can switch on or off.

In no world would we accept an application as being encrypted between client and server if it was possible for packages to get sent in plaintext occasionally. We wouldn't put up with HTPPS occasionally sending HTML forms over HTTP on accident. Why do many people feel comfortable with the same issue when applied between two users, instead of a user and a server?

If it's possible to send a plaintext message in an E2EE platform, then the platform isn't really E2EE.

#encryption #security #privacy #email #pgp

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 28, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @Reinald@nrw.social
@Reinald@nrw.social oh yeah. I mostly was criticizing high resource models as being excessive and unnecessary, not necessarily as being closed source.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 28, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services Ollama is great for this. It's a program that will run open source LLMs. Find a model that's sufficiently small, and it should be able to do a number of simple tasks for you, all from your own hardware!
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 28, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @Reinald@nrw.social
@Reinald@nrw.social I'm somewhat struggling to see the way that what I said is connected to this comment. Could you elaborate a little bit?
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 28, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116997210062423037 This to me seems like the right way to think about LLMs. Used for specific tasks within a well-defined scope. It's output should be verifiable, and it should be put in front of a person who has the expertise to discern good from bad in that domain. Ideally, it should mostly be used for pointing *at* a work (giving suggestions, explaining *how* -- now *what* to do, etc), not for generating the work itself. Oh and also fuck anything that can't be run on regular hardware cuz lol wtf are we doing with these 100GiB of VRAM requirement models like what OpenAI et al are cloud hosting.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Question for the community. How's y'all's experience with various Instant Messaging services? I don't use discord except with some of my friends, and I'm trying to get away, as it seems to be going the way of enshittification. I've used Matrix before, and I'm aware of some of the technical annoyances as a user. Does it tend to have good community (like, among gay nerdy Mastodon folks at least?). What about the other options, like XMPP clients, or like Delta Chat or something? I believe I've even heard (i might be wrong) that IRC 3 allows for asynchronous texting, so you don't have to be online in order to keep receiving messages that you can read later? Is this a thing? Everytime I look this up, I can't find any good info one way or the other. Even if there's no community, I'm curious what y'all think has the potential to become a somewhat ubiquitous technology among folks on Fedi? I wanna see more Instant Messaging online in these spaces. #askFedi #texting #discord #xmpp #irc #matrix #element #instantMessaging #software
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @FurryBeta@shark.community
@FurryBeta@shark.community @rooster@beige.party @eff@mastodon.social specifically their Surveillance Self-Defense page might be useful: https://ssd.eff.org/
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop @jplebreton@mastodon.social @petealexharris@mastodon.scot As we all know, trends in tech are literally incapable of reversing. Oh also, nuance doesn't exist, so only "no AI" and "yes AI" are allowed as answers. And since "no" to all AI everywhere sounds ridiculous to me, I guess we have to accept the "yes" to all AI everywhere, without considering how even more ridiculous that option is.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 26, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @themipper@mastodon.social
@themipper@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net "corporate social media" is a term that I use sometimes, which tends to work with my non-techie friends who are vaguely progressive-shaped in their ideology. Most people don't really love corporations, and hopefully it brings them in to say "wait, what are the *non*-corporate options?"
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 23, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

defcon.social
Replying to @miona@toot.lgbt
@miona@toot.lgbt I use mine cuz I like to do writing/blogging, and I feel like it helps people recognize me. I don't use it directly on my username, but it's my website domain name, which is linked to from my profile. Idk, I sometimes worry about it, but I don't think I'm likely to run into any actual risks 🤷
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 20, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @thomasjwebb@mastodon.social
@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop this comment actually just fully rewired my brain. Like oh yeah, duh, that *is* what's going on with conservatives, isn't it? They pretend to be the new rebels, despite having centuries of incumbency for their shitty ideas, and we've only just recent progressed enough to move to a better world, and they think they're the alt culture for wanting to go back.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 14, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @FuturisticRobert@infosec.exchange
@FuturisticRobert@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social supposedly, the play should've been written years before any budget cuts happened, and would still be around if so
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 14, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space
@alice@lgbtqia.space coming back to this post after the necroboost to remind everyone that individualism is not the answer to societal problems, and only social political solutions will get us out of this mess. Legislation, collective organizing, unionization, lawsuits, and (after much organizing, and when done properly) coordinated boycotts are the answer. I wrote a bit about this fact before: https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/individualism-wont-solve-our-problems/ And if you'd like somebody with a bit more authority in the field on the topic, @pluralistic@mamot.fr wrote about it too: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 13, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @jblue@mastodon.world
@jblue@mastodon.world @cassolotl@toot.wales my guess (I'm not an expert) is something to do with the fact it's only picking up certain wavelengths, and so losing out on probably a lot of potential energy, making it fairly inefficient. If I recall correctly, the amount of light that gets through our atmosphere and that's not in the visible spectrum is pretty small, no? Or maybe it's something else, like the logistics of getting public good tech to get off the ground if there isn't any significant money to be made off of adoption.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 12, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @slotos@toot.community
@slotos@toot.community @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange "it's not a crime if we do it with an app!" is the slogan of the 21st century
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jul 03, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to on defcon.social
@corbden@defcon.social I'm not old enough to have really seen the before times, but wow this sounds about right. People don't have any reliable way to discern quality or price efficiency. We're stranded on our own out here. Yet another lesson about how the convenience of the internet leads to the destruction of community and social bonds, which ends up being detrimental to everyone who was originally involved in those social interactions.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jun 28, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie
@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie Before responding, I wanna say that I agree that tags.pub is in the wrong here. However, I think your analysis is off. Nothing I've seen so far seems to indicate that tags.pub is pushing things to people who didn't follow them. The whole thing is that you have to follow tags.pub to see what they boost. They still boost your own content of course, but it's not for an unwilling audience. So like, either there's a meaningful difference between tags.pub and tagpush.app, or else they're both in the wrong. I'm trying to work out what the difference is, because I get a lot of my posts boosted by the tagpush.app bots, and I've never heard anyone else complain about this. And to be clear, this isn't a gotcha or a whataboutism. I genuinely am just curious if we're either overlooking the existing bots, or if there's a meaningful difference. @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jun 28, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @anderseknert@swecyb.com
@anderseknert@swecyb.com somehow, nearly all of these things are related to software. Somebody ought to make a project called Neutron so we can all be even more confused when talking about things.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jun 24, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @shlee@aus.social
@shlee@aus.social I'd be very interested to see updates on this idea -- seems like a useful concept as we begin scaling up, and as admins have continued to complain about the influx of spam.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Jun 18, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt oh how incredibly beautiful :blobcathearthug:
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 18, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @ellesaurus@toot.lgbt
@ellesaurus@toot.lgbt @alice@lgbtqia.space thh I usually don't even talk to them. they say "bags today?" and I say yes, then I disassociate while they ring up my stuff until I pay with card, load the bags, and get the f out of there. Tbh hadn't realized how different things are in other areas...
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 16, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space
@alice@lgbtqia.space "automated" checkouts bother me so much. The *only* time I actually want them is I've got 3 items or less to quickly scan and don't wanna wait in line. When I get off school and work and finally have time to go shopping, I'm dead-tired, don't want to be there, and I genuinely cannot stand the idea of actually checking out all my own crap. Isn't this the whole point of a grocery store is that somebody who knows better can help me out? I always go in the cashier lane. Luckily, in my town, those lanes have actually been making a comeback over the past year or so. @acb@mastodon.social @webhat@infosec.exchange
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 14, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io I feel like microdosing hope is really important. We live in a world full of all kinds of evil things happening all the time in front of our faces, it's easy to forget how many amazing, spectacularly wonderful things are quietly taking place every year amongst the terribles, often without anybody really paying attention to it. Slightly different point than you were making, but still, hope is important, or else we all just burn out and give up fighting.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 12, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @raaahbin@eigenmagic.net
@raaahbin@eigenmagic.net @ifixcoinops@retro.social @alice@lgbtqia.space i tend to be terrified of complimenting women in fear of coming off creepy, but I suppose there's a layer of gender based trauma there making me feel that way. Especially when I dressed up lazy and basically look like a cishet dude that day.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 09, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au
@LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au what a great post to come just after watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVu2qnlQcvM
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 07, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird@sauropods.win @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space so, to be entirely honest here, I don't think Alan Turing's "Imitation Game" (the original name for the Turing Test) was meant to determine consciousness. The Imitation Game was his way of answering the question "Can machines think?", which I feel like is a very different question, especially in 1950. I feel like it would be appropriate to say that many computers of our modern day do something you could call "thinking", even if they aren't really an AI system (take any programmed application you use to perform difficult automated tasks with. Perhaps Excel is a good example). I recently read his paper where he introduced the concept, and it was incredibly succinct, and to me had a lot more to do with *computers* than it did with *AI* (though it of course dabbled in both). I think he was trying to demonstrate the potential of computers to an audience who really had only ever seen them as clunky, single purpose calculators that lacked elegance. Also fun fact: Turing speculated that by the year 2000, we ought to be able to produce a machine which has 1 whole entire Gigabyte of storage, and using that, we could get it to play the Imitation Game sufficiently. Now we've got chat models that suck at thinking, and take 100+ gigabytes to do it....
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 07, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @mnl@hachyderm.io
@mnl I feel like it would be better represented by a short. Lots of money flowing through the process, but it's not powering anything -- just wasting huge amounts of energy and destroying all the infrastructure along the way.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 06, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social
@bagder it's time to start thinking about upgrading ‼️
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 05, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @cR0w@infosec.exchange
@cR0w@infosec.exchange oh what's this now?
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 05, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @iamada@tech.lgbt
@iamada @ShadowJonathan wow Instagram is so freaking terrible
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · May 03, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @niconeko@mk.absturztau.be
@niconeko lol my Instagram pfp is me from 2022 still
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 26, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @carlrichell@fosstodon.org
@carlrichell hmm, so under this law, would the GPL and other viral licenses be considered open source? After all, it _does_ place restrictions on modification (namely, if you modify and publish the binary output, you also have to publish the modified source code).
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 23, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @jeeger@mastodon.social
@jeeger @hypolite that's Cory's writing style. He includes extensive links, but they're not necessarily always sources -- just related reading. On one hand, it can be really interesting, leading you down cool rabbit wholes much like when reading Wikipedia. On the other hand, I do wish he would cite his more extraordinary claims so I wouldn't have to go digging independently for a source... (to be clear, I have not read this piece yet, but I'm familiar with the way he does this)
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 23, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @catsalad@infosec.exchange
@catsalad this is a very cute video. Makes me want to buy a nice train set and a mini camera so I can take videos like this. Ooh and can't forget all the scenery that the enthusiasts use in their sets, with like trees and terrain and stuff. That would be fun..
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 19, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @burnitdown@beige.party
@burnitdown @redsad I mean yeah for sure. But also the book wasn't supposed to be a revolutionary book. It was a book about what you can do individually in your life without waiting around for institutional change to happen. Small decisions and habits you can implement that actually *will* improve your life, regardless of whether everyone else follows the advice or not. I also think there's a certain extent to which he was trying to prime his readers to understand that work-life balance is a good thing, actually. So less lefty readers might come away with more class conciousness? idk.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 19, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @riverpunk@defcon.social
@redsad basically the book is about having a better life, being less stressed at work (by changing your methods/habits/workflow, not your mindset), and doing less "performative busyness" for your boss.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 19, 2026
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@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @redsad@ohai.social
@redsad I really enjoyed "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport. It basically pushed people to slow down, doing less in order to clear their brain to actually get those tasks done with a higher standard of quality and a better vision for what you should be doing on them. He also argues for literally working less hours (e.g., choosing a 4 day work week, if possible), despite the reduced pay, in order to enjoy your life more (since after all, work is only instrumental to your goal of being able to live a good life).
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 12, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
@JessTheUnstill @LilahTovMoon to be fair, the idea of the bicameral houses was to cool the spirits of the people over the time it takes for a bill to slowly make its way through the complicated machinery of both systems. Since the houses are elected by different means, it works pretty well. It's good at making it hard to pass controversial bills. The issue is in regards to what bills are deemed by our leaders to be worth fighting for and getting passed despite that difficulty. I worry to wonder what kinds of wacky MAGA bills might be able to get passed if the Democrats were to succeed in making it easier to pass bills.
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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverpunk@defcon.social · Apr 12, 2026
River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@riverpunk@defcon.social

Computer Science student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. https://riverseeber.net/blog/ US Politics 🌎 Programming 💾 FOSS 🔓 Leftist ☮ Queer 🏳️‍⚧️ Pro-community and would love to see a world that doesn't normalize self-isolation so much 🫂 Feel free to interact as much as you want. "We are on a social platform after all!" -- @stux DMs are open for anything as long as you're a human not a robot 👋

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Replying to @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
@LilahTovMoon the US only needs those super-majorities for Constitutional amendments (which are fairly rare, having only 27 in over 200 years). To pass most laws, like DMCA 1201, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or various other impossible to remove laws, it just takes 50% of House, + 60% of Senate (except in the case where the senate somehow blocks a filibuster, in which case it only needs 50%) + Presidential approval.
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