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Soatok
@soatok.bsky.social
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30-something gay furry with an interest in cryptography and software security.

Mastodon: https://furry.engineer/@soatok
Blog: https://soatok.blog

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · Nov 25
Dhole Moments (a play on "dull moments") is my blog.

Here's a short thread about it, some of its highlights, and noteworthy things that have happened related to it.

(Some are at least mildly interesting, I promise.)

soatok.blog
Dhole Moments - Software, Security, Cryptography, and Furries
Writings about information security, cryptography, software, and humanity, from a member of the furry fandom with a dhole fursona.
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oceansurge.bsky.social
Unless more people realize that nothing will get better with silence, then more progressively-bad actors will continue to be empowered by the community they've embedded themselves in, negatively impacting both the community and its public perception.
(6/6)
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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thatwhiskeywolf.bsky.social
From my last post:

I don’t agree with all that is said here, but a good read below on why making these kinds of issues (like MFF hosting Exotic Erotics) as visible and unavoidable as possible is what leads to good change in our community

soatok.blog/2025/06/12/f...
Furries Need To Learn That Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant - Dhole Moments
Next month, AMC+ is premiering a new series about furries that tracked down sexual abusers hiding within the furry fandom. It’s called, The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster. You can watc…
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November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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alesslexie.bsky.social
Uh-oh, it looks like you've caught me in the middle of the act 😳 But watch out, your socks might be the next ones that will disappear 😏🧦

📸 @briarcollie.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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ruadhain.bsky.social
I refuse to allow the machine to take over what it means to live - to create, to bring joy into this world. Why would I ever give that up?
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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xdriver69x.bsky.social
Everything is free and zeroai Linux now. Pihole to block all the ignorance, solar panels to free the electrons, and only Sony for the games to thwart all Xbox/Open AI m$ evil.

This fight is for all of humanity.

#ZeroAI
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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luftyloon.net
Yip! I'm *this* close to installing another OS on my machine because I'm sick of how pushy these megacorps are being about all of this.

If I wanted to experiment with an LLM, insofar as to understand how it works, I'd run a local model on my machine. Stop cramming it into everything!
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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amatzicoyote.bsky.social
grumpy boys are here to steal your turkey.

@tigersammich.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
soatok.bsky.social
Everyone that refuses to adopt the LLM tech, change their habits, or become truly dependent on Generative AI is based as fuck.

Even if you use it. Even if your continued employment is dependent on it. Don't normalize it.
soatok.bsky.social Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 15h
At the bottom of this is a link to www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
zacbowden tweet: "All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails. They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor." Quoting JezCorden: OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat. Platforms are increasingly turning to debt to keep this gravy train going ...
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
soatok.bsky.social
At the bottom of this is a link to www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
zacbowden tweet: "All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails. They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor." Quoting JezCorden: OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat. Platforms are increasingly turning to debt to keep this gravy train going ...
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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michelleroy78.bsky.social
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. He has brought the office down so low in such a short time. Other presidents have tried but none have come close to this.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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daff.space
shareholders
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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maus.tv
FIRST EVER #FursuitFriday
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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chichichimera.bsky.social
Happy #fursuitfriday ! Who will I be seeing at MCM Birmingham on Sunday? Sure hope to see some paladins.

🧵@Jesdenart
📷 @badgyote.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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lemoncoyotes.bsky.social
I can't tell you how many times I reworked this pose, but I love drawing this character

Commish for @spectacledlion.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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wolfpen17.bsky.social
Have a great Friday and an even better weekend 😎 see some of you at #MFF. #fursuiting #furrycommunity #furrywolf #furrycanines #furryconvention #fursuitfriday #furryfandom #furrylove #blfc2025
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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kbgreenland.bsky.social
Here it is with the byline and alt text
PC Gamer article titled “Microsoft's head of Al doesn't understand why people don't like Al, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious.” by Tyler Wilde
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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debjitduttaart.bsky.social
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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juan2tree.bsky.social
Definitely have to share one of the most iconic Thanksgiving Day reenactments today. Grab those cardigans and highballs and enjoy! 🦃 🍁 🪶🔥🍽️
Addams Family Values: Thanksgiving play (HD CLIP)
YouTube video by Binge Society
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
soatok.bsky.social
You should absolutely read this

keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/m...
ML-KEM Mythbusting
What is this? There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST’s standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories …
keymaterial.net
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
soatok.bsky.social
This is kind of neat. If BLAKE3 had a congruent mode as TupleHash, I think I could convince some folks to consider it.

github.com/PQC-Suite-B
PQC Suite B
Faster post-quantum cryptography. PQC Suite B has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
soatok.bsky.social
This is kind of cool. github.com/PQC-Suite-B
PQC Suite B
Faster post-quantum cryptography. PQC Suite B has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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cendyne.dev
You know you've signed up with a reputable company when they haven't checked their address in their emails
Company name 99 street address City, state 000-000
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM