WIP protocol documentation for the PixCut S1! Should be enough information here to connect to it, print photos, and potentially even send cut jobs. github.com/Syfaro/sapod...

“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” san.com/cc/not-so-s...

Today I learn that Ed25519 only got general availability this summer in subtle crypto. I've been spoiled by Safari having it out in 2023 ahead of everyone else.

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

📣 Hear ye, hear ye!📣 FurSquared 2026 is calling all merchants, artists, and makers! Dealer’s Den applications are NOW OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to showcase your wares at RenFur²: The Royal Tournament! 🔗: fursquared.com/dealing-at-fursquared

cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0... What'll happen to web developers if they have to compete with generative site builders? They'll compete with each other more and make lower quality sites.

seen out in the wild, on my usual walking route (i.e. in no way city center). KEEP THE PRESSURE ON FOLKS we are not alone

Found some furry art in Montreal

Is the bubble popping yet? I don't know for sure, but non-developers are closer to seeing past the hype on code assistants. cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0...

lugia...

SSO is too dang expensive for a furry convention, so I wrote my own cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0...

And every year, Apple employees have to sit through mandatory compliance training only to watch the CEO publicly violate it. www.apple.com/compliance/p...

Hearing at dec con that the defense budget has increased so much that jobs are guaranteed yet CISA and NIST seemed cut in half.

I suspect that advertising's next revolution will be tuning for agents. Once they get good enough for people to delegate every day decisions to, no merchant will be able to escape their need to pay the big vendors to have a business. cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0...

Tech interviews are leaving data structures and algorithms behind in favor of coding with AI tools. This brings them closer to the reality here employers need people that can work on a brownfield environment cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0...

We're excited to be in Vegas this year for BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEFCON! Be sure to stop by and see us in person. If you're not in Vegas, be sure to renew your membership online and keep fighting for digital freedom. 🖤 eff.org/vv

Happy 20th birthday MDN! https://web.dev/blog/mdn-birthday?hl=en

I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea. Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?

Godzilla: The Series surprisingly managed to correctly predict the advent of Gen AI in 1998, and had an appropriate lesson at the end of the episode.

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If the Nintendo 64 ran JavaScript, it could have been marketed as a Nintendo 52

Newsletter: Coinbase’s sponsorship of Trump’s military parade angered some in the crypto world, who described the move as “an insult to everything our industry stands for”. But this is only the latest example of crypto companies aligning with state power. www.citationneeded.news/issue-86/

The final version of the YCH Pride Chibi Illustration. All the colors! All the happy faces! Azemlight, KarouWS, Mizuko Kanagawa, Catdragon, ShanChan, Cendyne, Cookie54, Maff, KeepOnSmilodon, AmbreTheBat, Stain974, Crazy_Jellybeans, JenoraFeuer, Totally_Foxx, RanFox, RayStarKitty, CooperCheetah.

This is a grotesquely fucking stupid take. Signed, The furry that publicly audited Signal's cryptography earlier this year and has been warning people about messaging apps that adopt AI bullshit.

Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally. status.cloud.google.com Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare. www.cloudflarestatus.com #hugops

It would be funny if the root cause was vibe coding

At a Mexican place for dinner, the guitar players are performing baby shark

Finished YCH of the "Tuli's" Lemonade Stand. @catdragon.bsky.social AngelKat @zanderhyena.bsky.social, Tulisan, @cendyne.dev , @shan-chan.bsky.social , @wingedneko.de @ambrethebat.bsky.social character © their owners artwork © 2025 Alex Cockburn

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

Are you looking for a software dev / eng job? It may help to know what your options are and what the hiring side looks for as you go in cendyne.dev/posts/2025-0...

Do you ever accidentally write a 20+ page blog post about the job market while at a furry convention?

Nothing like learning about an in-progress w3c spec and IETF draft while at a ln event totally unrelated

Go to a furry convention End up in a panel on quantum computing Last year it was nuclear science

@un.lobi.to blep

The AWS team published a key-committing variant of XAES (https://words.filippo.io/xaes-256-gcm/)! Still FIPS-compliant, and with a proof. Key commitment ensures the ciphertext can only be decrypted with one key, to avoid issues in higher-level protocols. https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/758.pdf

A new batch of stickers for @cendyne.dev ! #anthro #furry #furryart #art #commsopen

> The legacy oqskeypair, bare-seed and bare-priv formats can also be output, by listing those first. WHY DO WE HAVE LEGACY OPTIONS FOR A BRAND NEW API?

It's done. A farewell gift for a friend and neighbor 😭

Medical textbook is pulled from shelves after an extract found stating the line – "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice." pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...

This is the absolute worst about Bluesky outages

Mankind is so evolved to reinvent the wheel that we have over 80 JS frameworks

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.