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smbc_comics_feed at 11:25am on 10/06/2025
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You're saying, hey, the last panel has a nonsensical perspective. Well, perspective is part of the post-Eden fallen world.
savagelove_feed at 11:00am on 10/06/2025My boyfriend went on a trip abroad with his friend (also a guy). After he came back, he showed me that he made a Bumble profile while he was there. I didn’t feel like anything was off or ask him to show me; he volunteered. He said that he was just curious to see how … Read More »
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savagelove_feed at 11:00am on 10/06/2025When she was in high school, she surprised herself and delighted her boyfriend by squirting all over his face. But the incident alarmed her enough to set off a neurotic need to pee before every sexual encounter. How can she get out of her head about it, and allow for spontaneity in her current, awesome … Read More »
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smbc_comics_feed at 11:25am on 09/06/2025
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Would you rather sit with friends watching shadows on the bigscreen or spending your time arguing with Plato about whether poetry should be legal?
bruce_schneier_feed at 10:54am on 09/06/2025Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught.
The details are interesting, and worth reading in detail:
>Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it’s investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.
The covert trackingimplemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackersallows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they’re off-limits for every other site.
Washington Post article.
smbc_comics_feed at 11:50am on 08/06/2025
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The only problem is that if someone disproves existence, all your fake compliments become void.
Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.8.0 – 8 June 2025 – is now available on github, along with MEGAMAP 1.7.1. This version is mostly, but not entirely, about Seattle.
Seattle DOT have dropped a new bike map for 2025/2026, but have chosen to show several incomplete and/or entirely unstarted projects as completed. We respectfully disagree with this decision, as it will direct map users to infrastructure which is not actually present for most or all of this year.
Therefore, we have chosen to stay with Seattle 2023 as our Seattle-area base map. We will take on the additional work of updating it over the next year, continuing work we have already been doing. In addition to not showing incomplete/nonexistent infrastructure, this means we will continue to group “Neighbourhood Greenway” and “Healthy Street” under the same common green colour, rather than separating them into green and blue markings.
(Seattle 2025 breaks them out into greens and blues, but unfortunately at the same intensity, meaning there’s no difference for those with colour vision limitations.)
As additional Seattle projects are completed, we will add them to our maps. Once all projects shown on Seattle 2025 are completed, we will most likely transition to Seattle 2025 as our Seattle base map.
There’s only one change since 1.7.1 for outside Seattle, but it’s big:
I’ve been looking forward to that finally being finished since they started work! The bike lane standard is meaningfully higher than it was before. It’s not consistently up to Kenmore’s standard, but it’s a significant and welcome improvement.
Note that sidewalk construction isn’t quite complete, but there’s very, very little left and should not interfere with biking the route.
Updates since 1.7.1 in Seattle include:
Rather than the usual MEGAMAP preview, here’s a comparison between on section of Seattle across the two maps.
All permalinks continue to work.
If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t.
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smbc_comics_feed at 06:44pm on 07/06/2025
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The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings who practice internal fertilization are to be invited to the galactic party.
HEY! Any Nova Soctia bike or bike-supportive people – particularly in or near Halifax – here? Time to show up!
“Mayor Fillmore has called for a halt to all new cycling infrastructure, using “rationale” very similar to what Premier Doug Ford has used in Ontario to attack Toronto. There will be a vote on Tuesday.”
Deets saying what to do are on Mastodon. You don’t need an account to read it. Let him know what you think.
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bruce_schneier_feed at 09:00pm on 06/06/2025Southern New England is having the best squid run in years.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
bruce_schneier_feed at 05:43pm on 06/06/2025On Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was—and sometimes about how cool their own company was—but I was asked by the Democrats to specifically talk about DOGE and the risks of exfiltrating our data from government agencies and feeding it into AIs.
bruce_schneier_feed at 02:41pm on 06/06/2025OpenAI just published its annual report on malicious uses of AI.
By using AI as a force multiplier for our expert investigative teams, in the three months since our last report we’ve been able to detect, disrupt and expose abusive activity including social engineering, cyber espionage, deceptive employment schemes, covert influence operations and scams.
These operations originated in many parts of the world, acted in many different ways, and focused on many different targets. A significant number appeared to originate in China: Four of the 10 cases in this report, spanning social engineering, covert influence operations and cyber threats, likely had a Chinese origin. But we’ve disrupted abuses from many other countries too: this report includes case studies of a likely task scam from Cambodia, comment spamming apparently from the Philippines, covert influence attempts potentially linked with Russia and Iran, and deceptive employment schemes.
Reports like these give a brief window into the ways AI is being used by malicious actors around the world. I say “brief” because last year the models weren’t good enough for these sorts of things, and next year the threat actors will run their AI models locally—and we won’t have this kind of visibility.
smbc_comics_feed at 10:10am on 06/06/2025
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Apparently Whitecastle serves chicken rings, which implies...
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solarbird at 10:32pm on 05/06/2025 under coexistence alphaooooooookay so
loooooong time ago I did a lot of work on a CSS overlay for Dreamwidth’s Neutral Good/Evil styles to make them work properly on mobile devices as well as Desktop. If you apply the CSS as Custom CSS to your journal, it keeps working on desktop and starts working right on mobile. All the nightmare noise from Dreamwidth’s old mobile-ish style went away, it got way more information dense, and most of all
no
goddamn
horizontal
scrolling
ever.
Not even with the navbar turned on. It’s stupidly tall, but it no longer scrolls.
(That was some work.)
I handed off that code to Dreamwidth ages ago, but they’ve got a tiny staff and I don’t know how important it ever was to them or even how much made it into the codebase.
Turns out tho’… seems people are still using mine? And I just got an issue report. And I have an edit that fixes it on my machine. And I fixed a subject line issue while I was at it.
sooooo uhhhhhhhh
I guess I’m dropping a new release!
Anybody want to test Version 0.85 before I make it official?
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savagelove_feed at 07:40pm on 05/06/2025There are so many great comments about this week’s column and podcast — confronting cologne addicts! sending nude pics! humiliating hung guys! — but I’m still COVID’s bitch and I don’t have the energy to respond. I’m so sorry! But I am gonna share a letter that just came in just now and invite you … Read More »
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smbc_comics_feed at 11:26am on 05/06/2025
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Hey I found something lazier than graph jokes.
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