Security engineer with a fursona. Ask me about dholes or Diffie-Hellman!
There are a lot of random topics I’ve wanted to write about since I started Dhole Moments, and for one reason or another, haven’t actually written about. I know from past experience with other projects that if you don’t occasionally do some housekeeping, your backlog eventually collapses under its own gravity and you can never […]
Rhyner has published a guide to chatting with furries and overcoming one’s anxiety and self-doubt. If you have a hard time starting up a conversation with furries, you’ll certainly find this helpful. Note that not all conversations have the same flow, and you definitely shouldn’t force yourself into the confines of [a] template structure. Keep […]
As America prepares for record-breaking infection statistics on a daily basis, many of us are looking at other countries safely reopening and wondering, “Why can’t we have nice things?” Of course, everyone has their favorite target to blame for this catastrophe. Democrats blame Republicans. Republicans blame Democrats. I’m not interested in blame. Regardless of who […]
This year (2020) has brought a lot of death. Friends, neighbors, coworkers, family members, and even some of the strangers you saw every day in your commute to work but never even stopped to learn their name. Of course, people dying isn’t exactly news. People in all of those groups have died all the time, […]
While the furry fandom can be a wonderful place and a force for good in the world, the topics that tend to circulate on Furry Twitter are somewhat seasonal: They repeat every so often–usually sparked by someone saying or doing something shitty–and never actually lead to a productive result. Let’s look at a few of […]
Despite the awesomeness and diversity that the furry fandom offers the world, there is a very narrow subset of furry content creation that has attained popular appeal within our community. If you want to create and share furry art, there are at least a half dozen furry websites dedicated to furry art (including FurAffinity). If […]
Moonraiser from Fuzzballstorytime.com published a review of the documentary film made by Ash Coyote called “The Fandom”. One thing I like most about this film is its representation of the LGBT community. It is a community that has faced many challenges over the years, but with the help of the furry fandom LGBT members have […]
A question I get asked frequently is, “How did you learn cryptography?” I could certainly tell everyone my history as a self-taught programmer who discovered cryptography when, after my website for my indie game projects kept getting hacked, I was introduced to cryptographic hash functions… but I suspect the question folks want answered is, “How […]
I rarely think about the labels that describe me. That isn’t because of privilege (I spent many years painfully aware of them), but because my friends are incredibly supportive and we’ve been able to cultivate an environment where I’m not constantly reminded of why I don’t “belong”. (It took many grueling years to achieve that, […]
I probably don’t need to remind anyone reading this while it’s fresh about the current state of affairs in the world, but for the future readers looking back on this time, let me set the stage a bit. The Situation Today (By “Today”, I mean early May 2020, when I started writing this series.) In […]
