Xyra ✨
@xyratech.bsky.social
she/her. Tech projects and political quote tweeting. Trans fucking rights.
Where’s my open source metaverse?
Once-a-month longer updates on my projects: https://xyra.beehiiv.com/
Where’s my open source metaverse?
Once-a-month longer updates on my projects: https://xyra.beehiiv.com/
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Fancy a digital chastity belt?
The government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.
Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.
It's creepy mission creep.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.
Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.
It's creepy mission creep.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones
Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.
arstechnica.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Fancy a digital chastity belt?
The government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.
Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.
It's creepy mission creep.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.
Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.
It's creepy mission creep.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer
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Because iOS stalkerware tends to work by requiring the target's AppleID and covertly making backups, which means that the stalkerware does not live on the phone.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Because iOS stalkerware tends to work by requiring the target's AppleID and covertly making backups, which means that the stalkerware does not live on the phone.
@openrightsgroup.org You are a privacy org, but I have to give my home address to become a member?
Please provide options at this critical time when your org is most needed.
Please provide options at this critical time when your org is most needed.
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@openrightsgroup.org You are a privacy org, but I have to give my home address to become a member?
Please provide options at this critical time when your org is most needed.
Please provide options at this critical time when your org is most needed.
Thinking more and more that GenAI output shouldn’t be for humans:
“Write me an article about…”
“Make me a picture of…”
But as an interface for human language:
“I, er, want some fries, big, and a coke”
“that big too?”
“Yes”
-> [“friesLarge”,”cokeLarge”]
“Write me an article about…”
“Make me a picture of…”
But as an interface for human language:
“I, er, want some fries, big, and a coke”
“that big too?”
“Yes”
-> [“friesLarge”,”cokeLarge”]
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thinking more and more that GenAI output shouldn’t be for humans:
“Write me an article about…”
“Make me a picture of…”
But as an interface for human language:
“I, er, want some fries, big, and a coke”
“that big too?”
“Yes”
-> [“friesLarge”,”cokeLarge”]
“Write me an article about…”
“Make me a picture of…”
But as an interface for human language:
“I, er, want some fries, big, and a coke”
“that big too?”
“Yes”
-> [“friesLarge”,”cokeLarge”]
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It’s kind of incredible that The Onion’s aiming to surpass the Washington Post in print circulation but I’m here for it.
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It’s kind of incredible that The Onion’s aiming to surpass the Washington Post in print circulation but I’m here for it.
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robots will be allowed to compete in sports before trans women
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
robots will be allowed to compete in sports before trans women
Or you could just use x402 and pay no commission
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thein.fo
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Or you could just use x402 and pay no commission
I’m SO HAPPY x402 exists now.
No more signing up for accounts. Just send money directly.
Digital purchases, AI models, even MCP!
If you are an AI client or server developer, please implement this!
(And let me know so I can play with it and tell people about it!)
www.x402.org
No more signing up for accounts. Just send money directly.
Digital purchases, AI models, even MCP!
If you are an AI client or server developer, please implement this!
(And let me know so I can play with it and tell people about it!)
www.x402.org
x402.org
An open standard for internet-native payments
www.x402.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m SO HAPPY x402 exists now.
No more signing up for accounts. Just send money directly.
Digital purchases, AI models, even MCP!
If you are an AI client or server developer, please implement this!
(And let me know so I can play with it and tell people about it!)
www.x402.org
No more signing up for accounts. Just send money directly.
Digital purchases, AI models, even MCP!
If you are an AI client or server developer, please implement this!
(And let me know so I can play with it and tell people about it!)
www.x402.org
The search for AGI is a bit like the search for extraterrestrial life.
We already have an example for each - us.
Knowing we exist means that life could exist on other planets.
Knowing we exist means that there is at least one way to make low power AGI.
We already have an example for each - us.
Knowing we exist means that life could exist on other planets.
Knowing we exist means that there is at least one way to make low power AGI.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The search for AGI is a bit like the search for extraterrestrial life.
We already have an example for each - us.
Knowing we exist means that life could exist on other planets.
Knowing we exist means that there is at least one way to make low power AGI.
We already have an example for each - us.
Knowing we exist means that life could exist on other planets.
Knowing we exist means that there is at least one way to make low power AGI.
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if tennis players had personas like wrestlers it'd be the most popular sport in the world
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
if tennis players had personas like wrestlers it'd be the most popular sport in the world
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AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
Experimenting with AI reliability in multi step tasks…
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Experimenting with AI reliability in multi step tasks…
n8n could do with being about 300x more debuggable 😅
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
n8n could do with being about 300x more debuggable 😅
Currently torturing AIs with enormous context…
Hard to to not anthropomorphise 😅
Hard to to not anthropomorphise 😅
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Currently torturing AIs with enormous context…
Hard to to not anthropomorphise 😅
Hard to to not anthropomorphise 😅
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In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now
November 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now
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Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
!["About the fund. The J.K. Rowling Women's Fund (JKRWF) offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women's sex-based rights [...]. It provides women with the means and confidence to bring to justice cases that make legal precedents, force policy change, and make positive contributions to women's lives in the future."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjkl4nmqbvelhqr3jzm2bm63/bafkreigkfhjbyner5wkm2x4by7xh6utgzhcirktzrci524sifypbpeimjm@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights
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the existential threat of the banning of porn/what gets deemed as such would be catastrophic for so many Cool Internet Queers. like, beyond being a former OF girlie, a lot of my video art has explored queer nudity, sensuality, and sexuality, and it would genuinely kill me for all of that to go away
If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
the existential threat of the banning of porn/what gets deemed as such would be catastrophic for so many Cool Internet Queers. like, beyond being a former OF girlie, a lot of my video art has explored queer nudity, sensuality, and sexuality, and it would genuinely kill me for all of that to go away
You can be sure the TERFs are writing to their MP. Are you?
Write your MP. File a formal complaint with the NHS. Send HMRC and DWP GDPR demands to correct your sex. Escalate your complaints when rebuffed. Apply for a GRC without evidence and/or as nonbinary. Give them numbers they can't ignore.
Keep up pressure on your MPs by writing to them, meeting with them and telling them the EHRC have got it wrong.
Why?
Because it’s working:
Why?
Because it’s working:
May 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
You can be sure the TERFs are writing to their MP. Are you?
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THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
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What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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