@Yuvalne@433.world cover
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

Yuvalne

@[email protected]

#trans, #lesbian, brown, #jewish (both Ashkenazi and Mizrahi, thanks for asking!), #nerd, classical #musician, somewhat techie, kinda cute. i'm basically Wendy Carlos but significantly less cool. will swear in toots.

interact before you FR.

proud financial supporter of so many projects I can't list them here (weird flex, I know). see this list for all of them: https://pad.envs.net/pad/#/2/pad/view/l3826rsf9nVcQNz7ihRLo3QA0U+W76NpAOpTem5rGr0/

ask me about #TokiPona!

profile picture picrew link: https://picrew.me/image_maker/94097

#nobots #nosearch #noscraping

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).

So I just logged on YouTube Studio for the first time in months to see what's going on... and found some interesting comments.

I'm not caffeinated enough to deliver zingers but I hope my response was adequate.

On the upside, I also saw a few comments of people who set up new accounts here, so yay.

As for the unplayable problem: no clue. But this is why I LOVE and on my website I'm using the PeerTube embed

A comment by a user that says: "Elena, congratulations on exposing yourself as the villain(cause) of all this. I genuinely hope big tech buys the Fediverse. I love how how everyone, here and big tech are going to lose." My response below: "Joke's on you because the entire point of the Fediverse is that it's made up of thousand of independent servers... it's basically billionaire-proof, nobody can buy it. Sure a billionaire could technically set up their own server but it would take seconds for people to defederate from it. That's what I love about the Fediverse: by the people, for the people, you're in control"
ALT
Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@_elena i suspect it's not just you, someone told me they had the same issue for a 3blue1brown video.
maybe YouTube infrastructure is just crumbling.

@evan@cosocial.ca avatar evan , to random

If Alice makes a followers-only post, and Bob replies to it, to whom should Bob's reply be visible?

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@evan @luana i think the issue can be summarised as "fedi lets you change/expand the audience, when it should only let you narrow it". however, changing what followes-only does would eliminate the second part, which is important for safety.
ideally the privacy controls for replies should be entirely different to post controls, so instead of public, quiet, followers and DM, it should be "original audience, original but quiet, mutuals, DM", at least from the maximalist safety viewpoint.

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@luana @evan but you can change the privacy of replies. it doesn't have to follow OP's decision, and it's important to have the option to do so. which is why i'm saying the whole framework of reply privacy needs to be reworked.

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@evan @luana
yeah, and i want to emphasise that in my original comment the main point that audience shouldn't be allowed to be expanded, but should definitely be allowed to get narrowed. hence why i'm saying privacy controls for replies should be entirely different, with the most broad option allowed being "original audience".

@Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

was sent by a friend

an alignment chart of different Microsoft products products: Windows, Copilot, OneDrive, Outlook, Edge, Windows 11, XBox, Teams, LinkedIn. except the axes have been changed, such that instead of "lawful, neutral chaotic" and "good, neutral, evil" all six labels are "evil".
ALT
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

PSA: the FDA just issued a recall for FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 plus sensors for reporting wrong levels, wity very serious consequences. if you are or know someone who is, send this link to them, as this sensor is very popular worldwide and should be replaced with a non-faulty model ASAP.

Early Alert: Glucose Monitor Sensor Issue from Abbott Diabetes Care | FDA
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts/early-alert-glucose-monitor-sensor-issue-abbott-diabetes-care

@Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

casual reminder that a human on a bicycle (or a modified bicycle made to be more aerodynamic if we allow them to compete) is the most efficient form of locomotion on the entire planet, measured in calories per gram per kilometre.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

the graphic from the link, showing various forms of transportation, divided into flying animals, walking animals, swimming animals and vehicles. the x axis is weight, the y axis is efficiency. the sector from the top left corner to the center is fliers, with the extremes being fruit fly (lightest, least efficient) and pigeon (pretty well balanced). walkers span the middle weight range from top quite near the bottom, with the extremes being mouse (lease efficient) and horse (quite efficient). swimmers have a similar range to fliers only significantly more efficient, with the example given being salmon (weight being similar to budgerigar or lemming, efficiency being better than horse). the majority of vehicles fall on similar efficiency to the best walkers only much more heavy, with helicopter being similar to rabbit, automobile to a cow and jet transport to a horse. then there's two lonely points at the very bottom of the chart: human on bicycle and human on velomobile (a modified aerodynamic bike), almost 4 times as efficient as a salmon (which is otherwise the most efficient on the chart) and 8 times as a human. while they're technically part of the "vehicles" blob, they look like a blob of its own.
ALT
Yuvalne OP ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@glowl check the link, it's not actual datapoints, it's stylistic colouring rather than having a hard border.

Yuvalne OP ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@glowl i mean, you look at the picture and it's an animation with the points moving...

@Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

i want to make an art installation that's a bottle of clear drinking water contantly being drained into a toilet bowl standing in the middle of a desert. the title: "AI".

(of course if I were to actually make it it'd be a closed-loop fountain where the water bottle is rifilling with the water dumped in the toilet bowl, because unlike AI i'm not that much into wasting water.)

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@vkc@tinkerbetter.tube avatar vkc i stream exactly three platforms.
the first is Nebula, for which i actually have a lifetime membership, meaning i no longer pay for subscription.
the other is DropoutTV.
the third is YouTube via Newpipe, for the creators that aren't on Nebula.
i don't stream podcasts, i always download them in advance.
all of my music is either on my laptop or on my phone.

@Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

i like the different phrases languages have for "giving a job to the worst person possible", especially since they seem to often involve animal metaphors.
English: wolf guarding the sheep/fox in the henhouse.
Hebrew: let the cat guard the cream (לתת לחתול לשמור על השמנת).
Czech: make a goat the gardener (udělat kozla zahradníkem).

@Mer__edith@mastodon.world avatar Mer__edith , to random

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@ericfreyss @Mer__edith
presumably that's on AWS to fix. the AWS deployment of Signal uses DynamoDB, which in theory is multi-region. however that service has a chokepoint in US-East-1 that is part of the AWS design and not something anyone other than them can fix - you can't choose to have the DNS for it be deployed somewhere else when you deploy to DynamoDB. it's AWS's task to make DynamoDB actually as multi-region as they advertise it being.

Yuvalne ,
@Yuvalne@433.world avatar

@thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com avatar thelinuxexperiment oh hell yeah! super excited for all of it.

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

[Thread, post or comment was deleted by the author]

    •
    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @snikket_im

    "What happens when Signal turns bad?"
    it's open source and run by a foundation. it's not like it can be bought by anyone. not to mention that the client (which is audited regularly) already works on the assumption that the server is malicious. a bad actor couldn't even try to map out the network without the whole service going down.
    https://soatok.blog/signal-crypto-review-2025-part-4/

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @snikket_im
    additionally, since literally everything is E2EE, including metadata, there's no risk from the hosting provider. just like jurisdiction doesn't matter so long as you do E2EE correctly
    (https://soatok.blog/2025/07/09/jurisdiction-is-nearly-irrelevant-to-the-security-of-encrypted-messaging-apps/), the only thing the host could do to you is jack up the price so you can't use them anymore.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena

    "That all depends on the app store client continuing as it is now. There's nothing to stop them replacing it with a different client."

    the source code being open? reproducible builds?

    "verify E2EE on app store clients" again, reproducible builds.
    check out @soatok 's analysis of the client (i'm linking to Soatok quite a lot today huh)
    https://soatok.blog/signal-crypto-review-2025-part-3/

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar
    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok

    saying that the server can talk to the spam filter which is not public for very obvious reasons when the whole point is that the client assumes the server is malicious anyway which you can verify as many have already done including proving mathematically how libsignal works is like saying coreboot is essentially proprietary software because it allows for blobs under certain circumstances.
    https://github.com/coreboot/blobs/blob/master/README.md

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok
    "There is no legal or technical barrier" apart from needing to rework a lot of the code.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok
    again, there's also nothing stopping Mastodon from going closed-source. the effects will be very similar - mass migration and loss of a lot of network.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok
    people already find it very difficult to defederate from mastodon.social.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok

    and above all, you still owe me the answer to one question:
    is the conspiratorial fear from Signal maybe one day turning bad which would require a ton of effort from their side and will be noticable from miles ahead worth signing yourself to the subpar security of XMPP or Matrix?

    i don't think so. i choose security over this conspiratorial scenario. you're welcome to choose otherwise.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @FediThing @_elena @soatok

    Signal can't be sold. that's one big difference you're ignoring.

    "refuses to federate" actually the biggest opponent of federation was Moxie, who isn't even part of Signal anymore.
    here's the technical claim he made against it, if you're willing to watch.
    https://archive.org/details/36c3-the-ecosystem-is-moving

    "it's a tradeoff" right now the tradeoff is security. by pitching XMPP or Matrix you're making people less secure (and i'm not even talking about the PQ stuff).
    is it worth it?

    @BathysphereHat@mastodon.online avatar BathysphereHat , to random

    Sora 2, OpenAI’s new video generation model, is impressive. Like, fucked up impressive. When you see video online, watch out for a watermark reading “Sora” that moves around the screen. Now, this can be removed, but it’s often done so crudely, leaving a moving blurry smudge on the video.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @BathysphereHat considering AI works like a scam, and that shaming people for falling for scams is actually a great way to help scammers since they thrive on shame, i suggest we learn this lesson for AI before it's too late.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    white people sure do rush to misgender and dogpile a person who literally hadn't hurt them nor literally anybody else huh

    @designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud avatar designthinkingcomic , to random

    Apparently the server I'm on has been unmoderated for 2 years, and is filling up with racist swill, and getting blocked across the fediverse. So now I have to move server.
    This is usually the sort of thing that's just complicated enough to make me bail on something completely. I will try to push through, but if I take this as an excuse to just jump ship completely I apologise.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @designthinkingcomic @sigi714 thankfully @FediTips made a great step-by-step guide fit even for the uninitiated.
    https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com avatar ohtheurbanity sitting in the cargo for part of the interview is a power move.

    @soatok@furry.engineer avatar soatok , to random

    I'm tired of moronic anecdotes being offered in the replies when I cite the actual scientific consensus that sex addiction isn't a real thing. (Neither is porn addiction.)

    I frankly don't care if your lived experience with sex/porn involved a prolongued unhealthy relationship. That doesn't make your compulsions a clinical fucking addiction.

    If you want to try to argue scientific consensus with me, save me the trouble and just block me instead.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @soatok people throw the word addiction wayyy to much. just like the fact the term "food addiction" exists, despite humans literally needing food to live.
    you can have an unhealthy relationship with food. you can have an unhealthy relationship with sex.
    but it's not a fucking addiction.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    if the mainstream pride festival has a webpage for all its events but your "alternative countercultural anarchist" pride festival organises on Instagram exclusively, are you really alternative, countercultural and anarchist?

    (seriously though, this is literally a blocker for me to attend, and i must assume therefore for many others as well. y'all need to do radical activism better.)

    Is Cycling Doomed in Hilly Cities?

    They say you can’t build a cycling city unless you’re as flat as the Netherlands. But how true is that? In this video, I want to look at hills: how big of a barrier they are and how people and cities adapt. This video has two parts: a case study of how people handle a major bike route on a hill in Montreal, then a look at a ...

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com avatar ohtheurbanity people don't realise just how much the city's attitudes change things. take Prague for example - it's one of the hillier cities out there, but it's go a whole section next to the river as well as large parts of the city center that'd be perfect for bikes. instead City District 2, which is perhaps the city district with the most flat ground of the central ones, is removing bike lanes, despite the bike lanes of Prague 2 being more effective than any other in the whole city.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @elexia@catcatnya.com avatar elexia @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com avatar ohtheurbanity Adam Something's video becomes more real over time.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXzgIhFAXk

    @Aurani@tech.lgbt avatar Aurani , to random

    Do I get déjà vu, or does my brain just have a dimensional crack that allows other realities to slip into my memories?

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @Aurani my déjà vus are weird because i don't feel like i experienced the event, but specifically like i had a dream about it some number of days ago.

    Why Does Everyone Hate This Neighbourhood? ( video.canadiancivil.com )

    I’ve come to the most hated neighbourhood in Montreal to think through a common criticism of yes-in-my-backyard pro-housing advocates, which is that we focus too much on the quantity of housing built while ignoring the aesthetics and architecture, enabling ugly buildings. ...

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com avatar ohtheurbanity hard agree with you on all points (well, except for the five buildings you mentioned subjectively liking less, i think they're perfectly fine compared to some of the uglier stuff you've shown in the video). from the footage, i'm getting still-in-development vibes, there's not yet the stuff that makes an older part of city great, like an established art scene or a recurring flea market. but those will come im time, and i'm sure this neighborhood will end up being beloved.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    sorry to be the bearer of bad news, fellow transfemmes
    5 Bad Health Science Takes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiiHAPXxL0

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    recommend me things to do in !

    i'm flying with my soon-to-be-wife (pictured) for a few days and we're looking for fun stuff to do together!
    both of us are nerds, so the best rec will be stuff like what is to this day the best thing we ever did om vacation: Amsterdam's microbe museum (highly recommended btw).

    ever visited and have recs? live there and know some of the less-famous things that are worth a visit? let us know please! :boostRequest:

    my fiancée in a flowery red dress, doing a "ta-da!" pose in front of a large statue of a water bear (a microscopic bug-like creature that's chubby and has 8 legs. very cute.)
    ALT
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    Now Is a Pretty Good Time To Buy This Trans Rights TTRPG Bundle - Vice
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/now-is-a-pretty-good-time-to-buy-this-trans-rights-ttrpg-bundle/

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    random thought - someone surely already thought of painting buildings in a colour that becomes darker the lower the temperature and lighter the higher it is...
    right?

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com avatar thelinuxexperiment Ryan talks a lot about Mozilla trying to thread the line between community and managing such a large product, but he's missing a crucial point which is that the leadership feels disconnected from the community.
    i genuinely believe that had there been a single seat on the board reserved for the community, or if there was some way to elect board members, trust would immediately improve even before any changes were implemented.
    Mozilla needs to understand that trust is key.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @thelinuxexperiment@tilvids.com avatar thelinuxexperiment it's worth mentioning that the version of the terms you quoted in the video is the later version. the original one did not have the sentence about them not owning your data.
    this is not something you do by mistake. these are terms of service, they are written by actual lawyers. this is intentional.
    i'm moving to librewolf.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    it's been about a decade since i last regularly played Battleship Solitaire, but it seems i'm still quite good at it.
    https://lukerissacher.com/battleships/PAAAAOdDry-JAASCAAIRh-4hEA4HAQEQ-AIL0AAAOAA-AAAAOKA

    Yuvalne OP ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @Aurani yeah, that's a Nonogram, a related game. as a teen i used to prefer battleship because it's easier, which i think holds generally.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    the , the Internet's greatest charity project, is once again upon us!
    in the , unlike any other charity project, the charities to receive the money are nominated, in video form, by members of the community!

    this year i am nominating Inc. 501(c)(3):
    https://youtu.be/nRJQe18ranQ
    if you want to participate in the , vote on charities and find more charity videos to share, go to https://projectforawesome.com!

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @vkc@tinkerbetter.tube avatar vkc love your videos! they're super useful for someone like me who was never formally taught Linux and is learning on her own.

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @vkc@tinkerbetter.tube avatar vkc
    well the classic next move would be to ask either about distros or about browsers.

    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar Yuvalne , to random

    this year's @AntennaPod year has arrived! and well, i should have seen that one coming.
    congrats to @thelinuxEXP for keeping the second spot despite fierce competition, and congrats to @omdimbeyachad ×2 (cc @dotanbrom ) @fossandcrafts (cc @cwebber @mlemweb ) and @lingthusiasm (cc @superlinguo @gretchenmcc ) for making it too!
    next year's competition might be even harder as I finally caught up with a lot of backlog, so there'll be more contenders.

    This year you played 542 hours of episodes from 32 different podcasts
    We've run some analysisnon when episodes are released, and when you completed them. Our conclusion? You're a podcast addict. Typically, you completed an episode 1 day 5 hours after it was released.

    We've run some analysisnon when episodes are released, and when you completed them. Our conclusion? You're a podcast addict. Typically, you completed an episode 1 day 5 hours after it was released.
    ALT
    @irotsoma@hachyderm.io avatar irotsoma , to ActuallyAutistic group

    https://apnews.com/article/texas-execution-shaken-baby-syndrome-da54c842eb5f55d24cd30b542060e2ee

    Baby fell out of bed because they cared and kept her in their bed. The minor head wound was used to blame him because he was undiagnosed autistic and didn't show enough emotion. Something he probably was punished for showing too much of in childhood like most of us. They ignored the severe pneumonia as the cause of death. Now he's being executed. The death penalty is a sick fetish for conservatives, not justice.

    actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group

    Yuvalne ,
    @Yuvalne@433.world avatar

    @irotsoma actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group
    the US sure does love executing innocent people as if to tease us and see if we're gonna do anything about it.