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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Idea: measure how many chromium commits pass the programming Bechdel test. A commit passes if at least two engineers involved are women between the author and reviewers, and the reviewers aren't just rubber stamping the CL.

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The person at Apple who added the stupid "app wants to see nearby devices" prompt to a set of undocumented, random, synchronous APIs.

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Grinch Smile Evil Smile

Alt: Dr. Evil laughing

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Why do all French people sprinkle some words of French whenever they're speaking English though? 🤔🤔🤔

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm sitting at a restaurant alone, next table is a French, Chinese, and an Indian guy discussing which cuisine is better. Incredible unintentional entertainment.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.

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Why you can’t just ban gerrymandering

Fair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones.

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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

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Royale Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play @r4v5.imgay.lol · 08/05/2026

if your threat model includes hardware backdoors and the nsa you are definitionally outside the scope of webauthn

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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 24/04/2026

Exciting news! The Authentication Experience team at Apple, which brings you the Passwords app, passkeys, AutoFill of codes from Messages and such, and a lot more, is hiring a software engineer! [1/2] jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

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Software Engineer, Authentication Experience - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Software Engineer, Authentication Experience job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I rendered Bad Apple!! on TIS-100. This was a fun long weekend project, and I got to learn about some of the internals of one of my favourite puzzle games! #zachtronics #badapple #touhou youtu.be/N3JwU-Kvqpo

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Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100

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Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The biggest joy in computer science is rediscovering a family of algorithms and some of its variants, then learning there's a corpus of literature on them.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 05/04/2026

i still can't get over microsoft saying copilot is for entertainment purposes only it's just so funny

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Incredible moment to have chosen to be Canadian 🇨🇦 #artemis

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

LLMs are the single worst thing to happen to my productivity since I've been paid to build software.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/02/2026

The more nerds (I identify as a nerd!) complain about passkeys, the more I’m confident in their success. Just read a comment objecting to a passkey being automatically created for them. “Dark pattern!!1!1 Should be optional!!” No regular user wants to think about auth.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 19/02/2026

for the official record, with Sam Stephenson’s contribution — we’ve fully resolved this matter over on Mastodon: indieweb.social/@sstephenson...

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I got some business cards with braille on them on top of the regular print. Since I can't read them, somebody suggested using Gemini to verify the text. Gemini said there it was "a beautiful poem", and hallucinated third rate poetry. (I ended up looking a braille table and yes, they were fine.)

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I got bit by the #homeautomation bug and see projects in every room of my house. So far I think I've managed to keep everything to actual quality of life improvements rather than doing it for technology's sake, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it's been fun.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

28/ The moral of this story, to me, is that western neocons and leftists are both extremely problematic. They are moralistic and condescending, all thinking they know what is best for people and countries they don’t know anything about.

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Lit HTML v3 is delightfully simple. I'm starting to like it a lot for chromium's webui.

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A fantastic piece by @theglobeandmail.com on thalidomide survivors in Canada, and how a special government pension massively improved their lives. These stories are why I'm subscribed to it. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7884f29... (Gift article should be good for 20 people.)

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Thalidomide survivors look back at 10 years of a more dignified life

A dangerous drug gave them a lifetime of disabilities. Hard-won compensation has made difficult days easier and more joyful – but some feel the 2015 support program still falls short

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The panini press is such an underrated piece of kitchen equipment. So cheap I even had one growing up, and it can turn leftovers into delicious sandwiches.

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

How come there are no anime girl mascots for cryptographic algorithms?

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I set up the Christmas lights and the tree :)

A lit plastic Christmas tree on a pot, about a meter tall, on top of an end table. Golden balls hang from it, somewhat haphazardly. To the left there's a sofa with a blanket on it and to the right a small bookshelf stuffed with books and a little fake plant on top of it. On the wall there's a painting of Nadeshiko from yuru camp eating an empanada. It's a cozy scene, at least for me!

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The OG Simon's Cat film!

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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 21/11/2025

Losing a device with your passkeys doesn't mean you're locked out for good. @oliverdunk.com breaks it down in the latest episode of "Passkeys Explained" 🔐 → goo.gle/4rr2AQG #PasskeysWeek

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Starlocke @starlocke.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'm starting to get more and more use of "passkeys" to simplify logging in to stuff! This is sweet technology!

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Japan, so long and thanks for all the fish <3 I'll be back!

A picture of the ceiling in an airliner showing two lit up signs instructing people to not smoke and to fasten their seatbelts.

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zerocrossing @zerocrossing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I wish there was a way to mute all posts where I'm blocked from replying. If you don't want to hear from me, I don't want to hear from you.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 30/10/2025

WhatsApp is in a pretty good position to do this well: they can prompt you to re-encrypt every time you rotate/add passkeys, and if passkeys are mandatory to log in there will never be a case in which you can obtain but not decrypt your backup. Would love to see more of this.

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David Adrian @dadrian.io · 28/10/2025

One year from now, Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" and warn users before plaintext HTTP by default.

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HTTPS by default

One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Passkey really, so you (the site) can trust me (the user) to have a password manager & avoid the silly 2fa dance.

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Ben @amongotheritems.org · 21/10/2025

I DONT WANT A CODE SENT TO MY EMAIL I WANT TO LOG IN WITH MY PASSWORD OR PASSKEY

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#discord please I beg you, open a browser to do passkey authentication, do not rely on Windows 10's implementation. Signed: someone who's had to deal with every flavour of the Windows WebAuthn implementation.

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