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Erica "digifox" Kovac

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Software Engineer | Social Democrat | Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Growth | in the vicinity of "Tomboy Transfemme", she/her | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. Pfp by @nicnak044.bsky.social

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any sort of device attestation requirement should be illegal outside of enterprise deployments.

11.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GrapheneOS attestation compatibility guide Guide on using remote attestation in a way that's compatible with GrapheneOS.

I'm not sure the thing that GrapheneOS prefers is great either, fwiw: grapheneos.org/articles/att...

11.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GrapheneOS boycotts EU Unified Attestation, asks developers to help In an official statement on X, GrapheneOS has completely rejected the new Unified Attestation initiative from the EU.

"GrapheneOS doesn’t see Unified Attestation as a solution, but just adds another new gatekeeper, replacing Google controls with a vendor-managed list.

The main argument made is that companies that sell phones should not be deciding which operating systems are allowed to run apps."

11.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

photographers, it is YOUR time to earn that Pulitzer by capturing the exact moment Rubio eats shit while slipping on a banana peel in his too-big Boy Shoes

11.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I for one Like the Signs that indicate that people in a given area don't hate me and my loved ones, call me crazy

11.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

"Oh but the signs are performative, it's just virtue-signalling, it's cringe" maybe, but I'd rather be walking around a neighborhood with In This House signs than trump signs. The jargon doesn't do anything for anyone though

11.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 343 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 6

yeah that's definitely a "bullet dodged" sort of thing

11.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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11.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 1006 πŸ” 508 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 133

I do not understand the mentality of someone who breaks up with their partner over porn use.

11.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Erin" stuck with me except a) I didn't like that it sounded like "Aaron" and b) I had worked with someone who rubbed me the wrong way with that name.

Asked my mother the "haha, just curious, if I was born a girl what were you going to name me" and got "Erica" back, and it clicked for me.

11.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

it's adorable and if I could tolerate MacOS and didn't just buy an X1 Carbon I'd be very tempted.

11.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny that the US military is so incompetent and corrupt that the people saying we needed a massive naval expansion were correct, while the people who said funneling a bunch of money into the Navy would be a waste were also correct.

11.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Akron Law Student Elizabeth Grossman (left) moderates a discussion with FIRE's Ari Cohn (right) at the University of Akron School of Law

Akron Law Student Elizabeth Grossman (left) moderates a discussion with FIRE's Ari Cohn (right) at the University of Akron School of Law

We are honored to host THE @aricohn.com here at the University of Akron School of Law for our First Amendment Law Society event today.

Ari just explained the chilling effects of online age verification and that promises of safety and anonymity from the tech companies doing it are "horseshit."

11.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

sufficiently annoyed at people's luddite bullshit to actually draft a UBI bill for them to argue with

10.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Krita definitely has actual product direction while GIMP is very much a product of "if you throw enough programmers at a problem you'll get something useful" 90s/00s thinking.

11.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my long-shot hope is that the economic impact of the oil shipping disruptions forces republicans to like, actually disown (and remove) Trump.

11.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is a fair point

11.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

to be clear I don't think the solution to this problem is to stop doing automation I just think it's a problem no one has come up with an acceptable solution to.

11.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

because unfortunately they have some control over our lives

11.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

like I like the idea of having the *option* to not do anything but people already seem to be hopelessly ignorant and I'm not sure post-scarcity utopia is going to fix that.

11.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

also the fact that most people would use it as an excuse to not learn or do anything at all

11.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

11.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 2884 πŸ” 644 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 45
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The problem with Grammarly's "experts" is it doesn't use their expertise at all I'm in this photo and I don't like it

The whole Grammarly thing reads as high dystopian, but it's mostly just a laughably bad bid for relevance probably coded over a long weekend which doesn't even succeed on its own terms. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

11.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
thepleasuregoblin

when you are done with a tab you can close it. every browser in the world has a feature that lets you open recently closed tabs. also there is browsing history. need to visit a webpage often? may i introduce you to the bookmarks feature. there's no reason to leave your tabs open. hoarder behavior.

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OP I'm hitting you with a shovel

thepleasuregoblin when you are done with a tab you can close it. every browser in the world has a feature that lets you open recently closed tabs. also there is browsing history. need to visit a webpage often? may i introduce you to the bookmarks feature. there's no reason to leave your tabs open. hoarder behavior. afloweroutofstone OP I'm hitting you with a shovel

09.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

there is kind of a recurring thing in this discourse where people dismiss software made and used by a single person as irrelevant but it feels to me like if ~whoever CAN make their own personal little software basically frictionlessly, even if it's objectively shitty software a whole lot changes.

09.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6

β€œsoftware made and used by a single person is irrelevant” is the kind of take you can only have if you don’t write shell scripts. and tbh, if you don’t, why not?

09.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo 'supply chain risk' designation Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a β€œsupply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.

BREAKING: Anthropic sued to undo the Pentagon decision designating the AI company a β€œsupply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use.

09.03.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 271 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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Comedy is legal again.

09.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm still skeptical of the productivity wins, I have not actually felt like software is improving at a rate commensurate with the claimed wins.

08.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0