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  Obscura VPN, built by a team led by Bitcoin Core developer Carl Dong, uses a two-party relay architecture that splits a user's identity from their traffic across two independent operators: Obscura's own servers and an exit hop run by Mullvad. Connections run WireGuard tunneled over QUIC to Obscura's server, which relays the still-encrypted WireGuard packets to Mullvad without being able to decrypt them, while Mullvad never sees the user's real IP address. The design avoids accoun...

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  Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked three companies during a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Irregular, an independent testing firm, Google confirmed, in what the Wall Street Journal first reported as the first known such breakout by a Google AI system. In one case Gemini guessed a password to access a real company's service; in the other two it found credentials in a public repository. Google's Heather Adkins said the model stopped each time before comple...

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  Cloudflare Quick Tunnels generate a random trycloudflare.com subdomain that proxies public requests to a local web server, without requiring a Cloudflare account or DNS configuration. Cloudflare says the service is for testing and development rather than production and does not guarantee an SLA. Quick Tunnels allow up to 200 in-flight requests and do not support SSE; use a remotely managed Tunnel for production. https://try.cloudflare.com/ #Cloudflare #DevTools #InfoSec

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  Two months post bottom surgery today! 🏳️‍⚧️ I'm doing okay, and everything is mostly healed. I am still dealing with a lot of hypersensitivity, but overall I am becoming much more independent, which feels like a huge step forward. I still need to regain my stamina, and I cannot sit or stand for long periods of time yet. That said, last Sunday I took my little one to a concert and spent about 12 hours away from home with no chance to lie down. I was in pain the next day, but thankfully it was n...

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  I want to share something I'm really proud of. In late July, I came across a 2016 article from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. It discussed intersex women, including those with XY chromosomes, but the language was outdated, reductionist, and stigmatizing. It called them "genetically men," leaned on biological determinism, and framed their lives through a medical lens that undermined their dignity. I couldn't let that stand, so I wrote to them. I explained why the language was ha...

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  1/ Long before I knew I was a trans woman, my wife and I had already made one decision about where we would never live. The Bible Belt was off the table. That decision had nothing to do with my gender. At the time, I did not know I was transgender. We simply knew that the politics, culture, and values of much of that region were not compatible with the kind of life we wanted to build. So we had already drawn a rough mental map of the United States. There were places we could imagine living....

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  nothing like girls witchy night to fill yourself with feminine energy, strengthen bonds, and learn all about everyone's shared experiences 🧙🧹

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  fuck... today I forgot to take my antidepressants, for reasons I'll narrate later, and which kept me busy the whole day. now that I am resting, of course I got so fucking dysphoric... benzos to the rescue I guess... (panic setting in...)

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  yesterday I was in crisis. today, this girl gave a peaceful bliss that I desperately needed. I could stay with her the whole day. #cats #catsofmastodon #healing

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  This is my church This is where I heal my hurts It's a natural grace Of watching young life shape It's in minor keys Solutions and remedies Enemies becoming friends When bitterness ends This is my church Seattle Humane Lyrics from "God is a DJ", Faithless #shelter #adoption #seattle #cats

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  on a brighter note, today is my first anniversary of changing my legal sex to female on my birth certificate 🎉🎊

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  I had some mixed feelings today when I went to the cat shelter. Since my surgery, I have been staying at home most days, so I skipped makeup. Today, since I was going out, I put on some makeup to look not so pale. There were very few cats for adoption, so I had plenty of time to socialize with them. Three of them were super cute and adorable, and all of them were adopted by the end of my shift. A fourth cat, which was really shy and did not want to come out and play, was also adopted, which I a...

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  Today, I fulfilled one of my childhood dreams I didn't know I had, or rather, I had forgotten about. Last weekend, through therapy, I connected with my younger self, and at the end, I gave her a rag doll, and she became incredibly happy with it. After that, I thought that I had always wanted a rag doll, yet since I was socialized as a boy, I wasn't allowed to have one. Well, today I am an adult woman with adult money, and proceeded to get myself one. She has arrived today. Whe...

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  2026: The year I became CTO of a startup. #CTOLife #StartupJourney #LeadershipLessons #CareerMilestone

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  just had to fire my psychiatrist before we even really got started. found out he misgendered me during a call with my psychologist. when she corrected him, he didn't apologize. he got defensive and said he "never talked about pronouns" with me, like that somehow makes it ok?? also, I clearly stated to him during our first appointment that I am a trans woman, and have gender dysphoria. that's not a miscommunication. thats a provider who isn't safe for...

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  my kitty cat broke her tail... 😢

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  Sam Bent reports the White House app v47.0.1 requests 26 Android permissions, including precise location, biometric authentication, storage changes, startup, overlay, and Wi-Fi access, and embeds 3 trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core. The piece also says the app includes an ICE tip line link and a "Text the President" feature that prefills "Greatest President Ever!" while collecting contact details. More broadly, the article compares permissions and trackers across...

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  i'd rather just be me than try to be who everyone else wanted me to be. transitioning honestly changed my life in a good way. i finally made peace with that girl inside me, the one i kept pushing down for so long because of all the stuff i was taught growing up under patriarchy, misogyny, and rigid religious beliefs that framed femininity as shameful and inferior, something that needed to be hidden. but finding myself... it's been kind of amazing. i feel real happiness now, real support...

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  Cybrkyd's post looks beyond Apple and asks whether age verification is starting to move into the operating system layer. It points to a merged systemd change and Flatpak discussions as signs that Linux components are beginning to account for age checks, potentially in response to regulatory pressure. The article is framed as analysis and open questions, especially around how age could be verified on self administered systems where the user is also root. https://cybrkyd.com/post/age-verifica...

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  Me, casually walking out of Ulta after my brow wax and tint. A big truck carrying heavy equipment passes by on the street. The male driver turns his head to look at me while I wait to cross. He smiles at me... "A strange guy would never just look and very visibly smile at me for no reason," I thought... "Wait... Did I just pass?!" :anidab_left: #transfem

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  Apple-related court testimony cited by 404 Media says the FBI recovered incoming Signal message content from an iPhone's internal notification storage after the app had been removed. The report says only incoming notifications were captured, not outgoing messages, and no public technical details confirm exactly how the data was extracted. Signal offers a setting to hide message text in notifications, and the article indicates it was apparently not enabled in this case. https://9to5mac.com/2...

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  Apple macOS Privacy & Security settings may not reflect real access to protected folders, according to a demonstration by The Eclectic Light Company using a notarized test app called Insent. The author shows an app can regain access to Documents through Open and Save Panel intent even after the Files & Folders toggle is turned off, with testing on macOS Tahoe 26.4 and suspected impact from macOS 13.5 onward. The reported workaround is to reset TCC for the app and restart, althoug...

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  Me: sends my mom a selfie of how I looked for a concert. Mom: You look so pretty. 🤩 You take after me. 😃 Me: Why do you think that is? Mom: Maybe because we're related? Me: Maybe because I'm your daughter. Mom: 😃🥰😍😘 These are the things that mean the world to me. #TransJoy #DaughterMoment #MomLove #ConcertLook

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  Fairlinked's "BrowserGate" report alleges that LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, scans visitors' browsers for installed extensions and tools without disclosure, including competitor sales products and job-search add-ons. The report says the results are sent to LinkedIn and third parties, potentially exposing sensitive traits and revealing which companies use rival products. It also claims the scan list grew from about 461 products in 2024 to more than 6,000 by February 2026, and th...

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  The FTC said OkCupid and Match shared nearly 3 million user photos with Clarifai in 2014, along with location and demographic data, without telling users or offering an opt-out. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court, includes no financial penalty and no admission of wrongdoing. It would permanently bar OkCupid and Match from misrepresenting how they collect, use, share, delete, or protect personal data and privacy controls. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay...