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uspol, trans genocide
The Daily Wire has a piece out scaremongering about DIY HRT for adults. I'm not going to link to it, you can find it if you choose. They're trying to push for the FDA to go after people doing DIY HRT.
But much worse is this:
4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can
The really scary bit:
> The court also took a significant step toward ruling that laws targeting transgender adult care would be constitutional. In a footnote, the court states, "While Skrmetti involved sex-change treatments for minors, disagreement among experts about the efficacy and necessity of transgender surgeries extends to treatment of gender dysphoria in adults."
In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under 
@Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker's stewardship.
In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?
The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.
It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.
California has a lot to fucking answer for.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
3D Printing a Harmonic Pin-Ring Gearing Drive
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/3d-printing-a-harmonic-pin-ring-gearing-drive/
Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/03/11/lords-a-leaving-britain-is-ejecting-hereditary-nobles-from-parliament-after-700-years
The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.
A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.
This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
Horses can't use laptops.
They use maneframes.
A commish for @cabbidachi.gay@bsky.brid.gy!! 🌈
When I hear about children who are presenting Ada & #Zangemann at their school -> 🥰 If you ever hear about that, I am very interested in getting a picture of their poster or worksheet. I love reading those!
Privacy watchdog ‘monitoring’ U.S. auto insurance phone tracking lawsuit
The office of Canada's privacy commissioner says it is 'monitoring' a proposed U.S. class-action lawsuit in which some auto insurers are facing allegations of misusing driver data.
#Canada #Consumer #Tech #USNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719462/auto-insurance-lawsuit-data-collection/
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
Last com from this batch, a fae dragon cutie for @therougecat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 🌸
Do you think I want to do this?
Do you think I want to be this angry about where technology is going? Screaming every day about a barren future the elites want more than life itself?
I used to love computers. I loved creating with them. I want to again.
This technology steals joy. Don't let it.
If you've ever wondered what 
means, it's the logo of the Fediverse!
There is no central authority to decide an official logo, but is by far the most commonly used logo and most widely accepted.
The designer of the logo uploaded high quality versions of it to Wikimedia Commons:
➡️ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal.svg (colour)
➡️ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal_(mono_version).svg (monochrome)
Fediverse projects often use this as the basis for their own logos by tweaking it a bit.
If you've ever wondered what means, it's the logo of the Fediverse!
There is no central authority to decide an official logo, but is by far the most commonly used logo and most widely accepted.
The designer of the logo uploaded high quality versions of it to Wikimedia Commons:
➡️ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal.svg (colour)
➡️ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal_(mono_version).svg (monochrome)
Fediverse projects often use this as the basis for their own logos by tweaking it a bit.
Gregorová prosadila svůj návrh, kterým defakto končí Chat Control. Stále ale není vyhráno - https://www.pirati.cz/jak-pirati-pracuji/gregorova-prosadila-svuj-navrh-kterym-defakto-konci-chat-control-stale-ale-neni-vyhrano/
„[Skenování je] cílené, konkrétně vymezené a omezené na jednotlivé uživatele nebo na určitou skupinu uživatelů, a to buď jako takové, nebo jako odběratele konkrétního komunikačního kanálu, u nichž existují důvodné podezření na souvislost, byť i nepřímou, s materiály zobrazujícími sexuální zneužívání dětí, a kteří byli identifikováni příslušným soudním orgánem.“
There isn't a blog post I can link to, but apparently "experts" who have written to Grammarly about its new "expert review" feature have been told that they are rolling it back and rethinking it. I hope they rethink it right into the ground.
“even in 1980”
hey fedi i am doing ocd therapy homework. what do you think are my qualities
It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.
So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.
MacBook Paleo
ChunChun from the archives
#ChunChun #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #LynxPointSiamese #WhiskersWednesday
exut
저 뽀모도로... 그림 3장 다 넣어서 무료 테스트 해보실 분... 제가 예시 샘플 만드려고 했는데 sd 커미가 좀 늦어진대서 적용 이미지 뽑아주실 분을 찾다... 자고 일어나서 랜덤 돌리겠습니다! 일요일까지 풀커스텀으로 사용할 수 있겠다 싶은 분들 맘찍해주시면 그중에 1분 랜덤으루 뽑겠습미다
Hello. I got asked to write a little piece for QX Magazine about growing up queer, the impact that has on my writing, and on how we all sometimes feel like we're from elsewhere.
I'd love for you to read it.
https://www.qxmagazine.com/2026/03/did-you-ever-feel-like-you-were-from-elsewhere/
天氣冷還有三隻貓幫我暖被窩真幸福
"The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is releasing this third Red Flag Alert for the USA related to the Trump Administration’s anti-trans initiatives, which have continued to expand nationwide since our last Red Flag Alert (RFA) on this subject. Over the eight months since the second RFA’s publication, the Republican Party’s anti-trans agenda has radicalized and continued to intensify. [...] The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world."
I'm so grateful and proud that the EU MEPs voted yes to amendment 5 and thereby narrowed the #chatcontrol extension down to something surprisingly reasonable.
Now, we just need to ensure that the scope for the permanent law is similar, and doesn't include #privacy invasive #ageverification or #idverification mandates.
My takeaway on the current state in Canada is:
- An OS can mandate age collection (as long as it stays on device)
- Mandating such collection will face issues.
- Deployment of an OS that mandates age collection could be an issue
- Any attempt to use that collected data will face issues (especially if developers are required to be deemed to have collected it)
We are thrilled to announce that the main stage schedule for OggCamp 2026 is now officially live.
More details here: https://www.oggcamp.org/posts/schedule/
Full main stage schedule here: https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/schedule/
There's just a few days left to apply for LibreLocal funding: https://u.fsf.org/4ar #FSF #FreeSoftware
Wishing I installed 3-4 more solar panels when I got this system installed. I have the roof space for it but didn't bake in enough redundancy. Probably going to be painfully expensive to have 4 more panels added at this point.
📣 PyCon US Travel Grant applicants: notifications have been sent! Please check your inbox and respond by March 20th, 2026, to secure your grant- no reply means an automatic decline. Don't miss your chance to join us! #PyConUS
https://us.pycon.org/2026/accounts/dashboard/
I tried to walk like an Egyptian but now I need to see a Cairo practor.
Interested in a low-cost computer or microprocessor? Many have doubled in price over the last few months due to RAM shortages. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ram-shortage-price-increase?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
僕はたまーにSonyの古いノイズキャンセルヘッドホン (WH-1000XM2) で音楽を聞くと、今まで知らなかった音が聞こえてきてうれしいことがあるよ。
"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"
"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"
"Yep!"
"You're never gonna believe this."
📣 PyCon US Travel Grant applicants: notifications have been sent! Please check your inbox and respond by March 20th, 2026, to secure your grant- no reply means an automatic decline. Don't miss your chance to join us! #PyConUS
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Which was really fucked up to see: These folks actually want to protect their organizations from burning a lot of resources on bullshit instead of fixing actual problems that help the workers _and_ the organization. And they have to actively fight management who got their brains ruined on linkedin.
But: If you have any chance to speak to unions/workers from different domains and organizations do so.
It's fascinating how
a) different organizations are and operate
b) they all end up with the same handful of structural problems
Another Sony banger:
This is a reversible USB-A to reversible micro-usb cable.
Where is your god now.
AltStore 2.3 (81)
NEW
Social Web
• Discover apps and sources on our explore page https://explore.alt.store
• Developers can opt-in to have their sources federated to explore page
• View all likes on federated apps, app updates, and news alerts in-app
• Sign in with your Mastodon or Bluesky account to like federated items directly in-app
• Share links to federated items with others or view them in system browser
Liquid Glass UI
• Updated design to fit at home on iOS 26
• New Liquid Glass app icon
Source Collections
• Redesigned Add Source screen makes discovering sources easier than ever
• View all featured sources, or view specific source “collections”
FIXED
• Fixed unreadable text in light mode for some news alerts (thanks @partyknightsdev!)
• Fixed My Apps tab badge count showing incorrect number of app updates
• Fixed showing empty text view for updates with no description
• Fixed Apple’s system download button not being accessible with VoiceOver
• Fixed difficulty accessing app banner button when VoiceOver is enabled
• Fixed category cells not being accessible with VoiceOver
• Fixed AltStore incorrectly thinking an updated failed when it succeeded in background
• Fixed false-positive errors due to installed version (temporarily) not matching expected version
https://altstore.io/source/marketplace.altstore.io?app=io.altstore.AltStore&version=2.3.7
Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
Link: https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338091
Misty
jnkrtech
Inside Fediverse
Chao-c'
Gabriele Svelto
Evan Prodromou
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Python Software Foundation
mcc
robb
Tom Casavant
