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"Pack light. Bring only the essentials." The essentials:
— Mandu 🥟 (@yurnidiot@mstdn.social) ()
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It’s beautiful in DC right now. Peak bloom from the cherry blossoms and petals drift by wherever you walk, blown in from some distant or nearby tree.
When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.
— a BlueSky user ()
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the horrors of a podcast with no web presence except "join our discord for updates" I cannot stress this enough, maaaaaaake a website 🫠🫠🫠
— ✨ chosa ✨ (@lowficarrots@tenforward.social) ()
- 🤤🥟🤤🥟🤤 #dumplings #gyoza #🥟 (Instagram) ()
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- Moominvalley Park, 飯能 (Hannō) ()
- Theresa O'Connor shared a post. (Facebook) ()
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- “Some of those that work forces / Are the same that burn crosses!” 🎵🎶 (Mastodon) ()
- Three nights in 京都 (Kyōto) ()
- On loved ones lost to the MAGA cult by constant exposure to the relentless firehose of fascistic misinformation that is Facebook, Fox News, etc. ()
- Boost (Mastodon):
And the award for the best meme goes to…. 🏆
— J Lam 👩🏻💻👩🏻🎨 (@kangaroo5383@mastodon.social) ()
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"In 1997, at the dawn of the internet’s potential, the working hypothesis for privacy enhancing technology was simple: we’d develop really flexible power tools for ourselves, and then teach everyone to be like us."
GPG And Me
I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn’t seemto be a popular choice these days, but I’ve received enough inspiring correspondence over the yearsto leave it be.When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the fee... by moxie
— Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social) ()
- A day trip to 奈良 (Nara) ()
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- They truly are so inspiring. (Instagram) ()
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- Manhole covers of Himeji (Instagram) ()
- A day trip to 姫路 (Himeji) ()
- Boost (Mastodon):
This is a good reminder that when e.g. Chat Control sought to backdoor encrypted messaging apps for the masses while exempting government officials, that kind of thinking means backdooring apps that are in practice also used by government officials even if not supposed to.
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
— Henri Sivonen (@hsivonen@mastodon.social) ()
- @timbray I’m on a train in Kyoto and the girl sitting opposite me has a sweatshirt that reads: “UNAVAILABLE ERR 451 PRIVATEREASONS”. (Mastodon) ()
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- In particular, American opponents of immigration who themselves descend from immigrats: your ancestors came here, sometimes because they wanted to, often because they had to. They were treated poorly upon arrival and for the rest of their lives. You are no better than the nativists who greeted them with sneers, who denied them the dignity of work, housing, and the ability to fully participate in society. Shame on you. (Instagram) ()
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- If you play your cards right, you could work in Premium Midsize Office one day. (Instagram) ()
- Strawberry treats! 🍓🍓 (Instagram) ()
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- @alienghic point by point and edited down, together (Mastodon) ()
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> Issued by a majority Democratic-appointed panel in the 9th Circuit, it marks the first significant decision in which Democratic-appointed judges have ruled against transgender protections. Fuck.
— Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (@xgranade@wandering.shop) ()
- RT @MollyBeck: MN guv Tim Walz told me: "If the pivot here is to disregard the human rights of the transgender community, I'm not intereste… (Twitter) ()
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Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @verge. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”
One lawyer called it a ‘feedback loop’ of surveillance. The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Technology is supposed to make the world more accessible, not reinforce inequities. Liz Henry's advocacy for people with disabilities & the open source software and hardware ecosystem show how important it is for you to have the power to adapt tech to your own needs. #womenshistorymonth
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Iconic computer scientist, mathematician & U.S. Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper worked on the first all-electronic digital computer, created the first implemented compiler (coining the term), and developed COBOL demonstrating that a programming language could use English words. 🪰 #womenshistorymonth
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Chelsea E. Manning is a network security expert, whistleblower, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose disclosure of classified Iraq war documents exposed human rights abuses and corruption the government kept hidden from the public. #womenshistorymonth
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Barbara Simons, computer scientist & former president of the Association for Computing Machinery, has been on a mission to ensure election security in our systems for over 20 years. It's never been more important for us to know that our votes are secure, verifiable, & counted. #womenshistorymonth
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Each a formidable researcher in her own right, Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, and Deborah Raji chose to accept 2020 EFF Awards together for exposing racial bias in AI. Their display of solidarity reminds you that ultimately we support each other to achieve important things. #womenshistorymonth
— Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) ()
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Britain Issues Travel Warning for US:
The change comes amid President Donald Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration. Britain issues travel warning for US by Billal Rahman
— Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop) ()
- un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » ()
- “He’s a pathetic man-child.” ()
- Boost (Mastodon):
#ICE #USPol #Immigration Every US citizen should read this article — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19… — and then understand that this is how we treat our *friends*, who have done nothing wrong. None of this should be normal.
— Rbowen (@rbowen@mastodon.social) ()
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"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." This quote about the bandwidth of physical transportation is roughly 10 years older than me. It came up in the Packet Pushers slack channel, and somebody wondered if it's still valid in 2025. Ouch! I got nerd sniped! Now I'm wondering too. Let's investigate. To start, we'll need some numbers. This is gonna be pretty big on guesstimates, royally rounding things up or down, and ignoring some geometrical factors. I can't ascertain the quote's origin, but I'm certain it originated in the USA. A 1975 American station wagon could have been a Ford LTD Wagon. Let's pick that one, it looks like a sweet ride. According to the brochure, it features a cargo volume of "over 100 cu. ft. counting lockable below-deck stowage". That's over 2,800,000 cubic centimers. Let's choose a distance outside of the USA, UK, Liberia and Myanmar. That way we can stick with the International System of Units (SI), avoid dealing with miles, and avoid deteriorating our sanity any further. One of my longer road trips featured a drive from Rome, IT to Dordrecht, NL: around 1600 kilometers. Assuming two alternating drivers, some bad traffic and some stops, let's say the drive takes us 25 hours. The bandwidth could be 800 Gbit/s today, ignoring bandwidth-delay product. If you get creative with source and destination storage arrays and the network inbetween, you could conceivably multiplex and achieve some multiple, but 800 Gbit/s seems like a fair number so we'll stick with that. Pushing 800 Gbit/s for 25 hours straight, we're are able to transfer a total of 9,000,000 gigabytes (9,000 terabytes or 9 petabytes). At this point I'm already intuiting the final answer, but let's move along. According to a quick Google search, the highest capacity SSD for the last few years (HDD's don't come close anymore) has been the ExaDrive EDDCT100/EDDCS100 at 100TB. The ExaDrive is a 3.5" SSD. However, Solidigm is currently releasing a 122.88TB version of the D5-P5336 SSD. The D5-P5336 is a tall 2.5" SSD with a volume of 105 cubic centimeters. The weight is guesstimated at 300 grams. A possible alternative are microSD cards. The highest capacity ones are 1.5 TB today. A microSD card weighs about 0.5 grams. The volume of a single card is about 0.165 cubic centimeters. So a microSD fits in the tall 2.5" SSD model roughly 636 times. Rounding up, the microSD's give us a nice single petabyte in the volume of a single tall 2.5" SSD, or almost a factor 10 difference. Interestingly, the weight of a single tall 2.5" SSD's volume is roughly equal to the weight of that same volume in microSD cards. So microSD cards it will be! To keep things simple, let's work with the rounded numbers we have so far. 105 cubic centimeters worth of microSD cards will fit into the Ford LTD Wagon more than 25.000 times. However, that would be almost 10 million microSD cards, or almost 5000 kilograms of them. I can't find all the numbers for the Ford LTD Wagon, but the towing capacity I found was close to 1000 kg. I'm taking the towing capacity as an indication of the weight capacity of the car itself, even though there are different factors involved. Assuming a couple of humans and a bunch of stuff actually in the car during that towing, I'm picking a maximum of 1500 kg worth of microSD's. With two drivers, let's hope that the axles will hold and sacrifice a goat for zero speed bumps. 1500 kg would allow for 3 million microSD cards or 4500 petabytes. One final note: we're ignoring the time it might take to transfer some data set from some storage array to 3 million microSD's (and to load them into the station wagon) before departing. We're also unsure about and ignoring any transfer time after arriving at the destination. I suspect these same assumptions were also in place about the tapes when the original quote was made. The suggested drive will take 25 hours, and in that time the 800 Gbit/s connection will "only" transfer 9 petabytes. So with 4500 petabytes, the station wagon will transfer about 500 times more data than the 800 Gbit/s connection. Wow! You'd need a lot of multiplexing to offset the difference. It's clear that the limiting factor is the weight capacity of the station wagon. A small truck or sturdy van would have been a more sensible choice. In any case, the station wagon wins hands down. Unless that old thing breaks down. #bandwidth #storage #networking #stationwagon
— Jaap de Vos (@jaap@bsd.cafe) ()
- A bit of a power clash today, combining @nooworks’ Dog Party print with a paisley NATO for my #seagull1963. Fun, though. (Instagram) ()
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- Boost (Mastodon):
I'd love to see some discussion about how we could incorporate better backgrounds for inline elements directly in CSS. Could we have `box-decoration: merge` that paints the backgrounds on a multi-line inline element as one operation, after merging together? Or for the issue of the background of one inline overlapping the text of the previous line, a property like `paint-order` to send them to the back? Or `background-clip: line-boxes` for when the full block should have highlight? @anatudor@mastodon.social
— Amelia Bellamy-Royds (@AmeliaBR@front-end.social) ()
- Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! A very happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all! (Instagram) ()
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No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.
— evacide (@evacide@hachyderm.io) ()
- “Signifying a craven willingness…” ()
- There’s a “converts are the worst” joke in there somewhere. (Instagram) ()
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@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. I have a piece of the wall, it’s a nondescript bit of concrete that will mean nothing to anyone when I’m gone, but for me, celebrating that day with the Germans who had never seen the other side of the wall, it’s a reminder that democracy can work. That fascists can fall. The rubble from the destruction of Black Lives Matter plaza tells the other side of that story. Fascism is rising, and they are on the upswing. But hold this rubble in your heart, for with its stones, we will destroy fascism again, and again, and every time they rise, we will pick up our rocks and go to war.
— MissConstrue (@MissConstrue@mefi.social) ()
- ENT’s complex retconning of an explanation for Klingon forehead ridges, or the lack thereof, was totally unnecessary. “We don’t speak of it with outsiders” was gold. (Mastodon) ()
- Is it safe for us to *not* have one? It's hard to flee the country without the ability to travel internationally. (Bluesky) ()
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- Happy International Women’s Day! (Instagram) ()
- It’s November 19th. But that’s not why you’re asking, is it? (Instagram) ()
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Imagine for a moment that you were the Dem governor of the most populous state in a country that just elected an openly fascist government that is actively using a moral panic to criminalizing the existence of a highly vulnerable minority group while conducting a much broader pogrom against that vulnerable and targeted minority group; in this case trans people. What is the most pathetic, craven, cowardly, selfish, irresponsible, and openly collaborationist (with fascists) thing you could possibly do? I guarantee that no matter what your brain just came up with, it's not worse than what California Governor and potential 2028 Dem presidential nominee Gavin Newsom just did: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p… "On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom launched his new podcast, This is Gavin Newsom. His first guest? Notorious anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Charlie Kirk. The episode covered a wide range of grievances Kirk and other far-right activists have with Newsom, touching on topics from Black Lives Matter to COVID policies. However, the issue of transgender rights surfaced repeatedly. At one point, Newsom stated he was "completely aligned" with Kirk on transgender participation in sports. He also appeared to express agreement with restrictions on medical care for incarcerated transgender people and limits on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth." Yes, you read that correctly; the Dem Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, celebrated the birth of his new podcast by inviting Charlie fucking Kirk on to his show and stridently agreeing with him about various aspects of the GOP's fascist war on trans rights and by extension, their efforts to threaten the existence of trans people entirely. I'm sure some Dem apologists reading this are already calling me an alarmist, but before I explain why you can't have just "a little" fascist persecution of trans people, I'd like to make something abundantly clear. Charlie Kirk is a professional fascist propagandist, who is actively employed in the task of creating ideological arguments to support, and popular support for, a real as fuck pogrom against trans people. That's what he is, that's what he does for a living: "Newsom’s invitation and capitulation to Charlie Kirk on his podcast will alarm LGBTQ+ advocates. Kirk has a well-documented history of extremist rhetoric and hostility toward the LGBTQ+ community. In a 2023 video, he stated, “These people are sick… I blame the decline of American men. Someone should have just ‘took care of it’ the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s, but as you have testosterone rates going down and men acting like women, well…”—seemingly advocating for violence against transgender people. Kirk has also repeatedly used the slur "tr*nny" and has encouraged its normalization. He once called transgender people “a throbbing middle finger to god.” In the last election cycle, TPUSA’s PAC, which he leads, spent millions on anti-transgender ads, making his presence on Newsom’s platform all the more striking." Given that, hosting Charlie Kirk on your podcast in the first place is a profoundly craven and dangerous act of fascist collaboration. Enough so that even if Newsom and Kirk were chatting about the weather, he should still be forced to resign immediately from both the party and the governorship. Of course, they weren't just talking about the weather; Governor Newsom, who btw has one of the safest seats in all of US government and thus has no electoral need to pander to, again, fascists who want to criminalize and ultimately end the existence of trans people, invited Charlie on his podcast to spew transphobic propaganda in service of an active fascist pogrom targeting trans people and in particular young trans women; and then agreed with him. There is no wiggle room or nuance to be had here, Newsom just helped the fascists make trans people less safe in America and his actions absolutely *will* have a body count associated with them down the line. This isn't about women's sports, or gender care in carceral settings because those are just the wedge arguments the fascists are using to criminalize trans existence; what Newsom is doing here is agreeing in principle that trans people are a danger to women/girls, and that their medical rights should be subject to legislation - all that's left to argue about at that point is to what degree trans people aren't people and thus don't have the same rights as other Americans. Folks, this isn't some backwater school board rep straying off script; Newsom is probably one of the five most powerful people in the entire Democratic Party and clearly has designs on the presidential nomination for the 2028 US election. If liberals want to prove folks like me are wrong when we say Dems would trade trans lives for ten suburban white votes in an election they'll lose anyway, you need to DO something about Gavin Newsom; immediately. #Fascism #Trump #CharlieKirk #GavinNewsome #TransRights #Pogrom
— AnarchoNinaAnalyzes (@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems) ()
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the "ah, whatever" nonbinary or the "1500-page-long gender technical specification document" nonbinary
— Kris :v_bi: :v_gqueer: (@endali@tech.lgbt) ()
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- In Switzerland they support the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bank community (Instagram) ()
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someone asked AI to generate a guide to asking people out and I cannot get over this panel. this is AI's finest achievement as art. would you like to grab crab sometime? grab crab. would you like to grab crab? grab crab. 🦀🦀 (originally posted by keepingthecommontone to r/chatgpt)
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In Paris for a @tag F2F that @nitot@framapiaf.org's hosting. It's lovely to be back.
— Theresa O'Connor (@hober@w3c.social) ()
- In Paris for a @tag F2F that @nitot 's hosting. It's lovely to be back. (W3C) ()
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Good morning Paris! On my way to Octo’s offices for day 1 of our @tag@w3c.social face-to-face!
Minutes of all TAG Meetings and Calls. Contribute to w3ctag/meetings development by creating an account on GitHub. meetings/2025/03-Paris at gh-pages · w3ctag/meetings by
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— Daniel Appelquist (@torgo@mastodon.social) ()
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- «¡Solo es nuestro deseo acabar con el fascismo!» 🎵🎶 (Mastodon) ()
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Go hifreann le an diabhal oráiste.
— Theresa O’Connor (@hober@mastodon.social) ()
- @zachozma makes the best pins for this time we find ourselves in. (Instagram) ()
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