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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/09/2026
hate it when android notifications come in late. been waiting since 6 BCE for my double points notif
An Android notification from the Black Sheep Coffee app inviting me to earn double points on coffee. The relative timestamp next to the app name says the notification was sent "2032y" ago.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/09/2026
[selfie] y'all are in the closet. i'm in the shed. we are not the same
a picture of Cait, standing in a shed, smiling at the camera. she is wearing a blue and white striped cardigan over a white top.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 27/09/2026
with #GenAI development killing off the diversity and artistic creativity of #engineering in computing, there's some danger we could lose software "engineering" altogether go.cpf.sh/r6dq5a
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The world no longer wants software engineers
Don't believe the breathless hype about #GenAI: it won't eradicate software engineers. Instead, we'll do that ourselves, by losing sight of the diversity and artistic creativity of #engineering in computing in service of faster, but worse, software #development.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 27/09/2026
with #GenAI development killing off the diversity and artistic creativity of #engineering in computing, there's some danger we could lose software "engineering" altogether go.cpf.sh/r6dq5a
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The world no longer wants software engineers
Don't believe the breathless hype about #GenAI: it won't eradicate software engineers. Instead, we'll do that ourselves, by losing sight of the diversity and artistic creativity of #engineering in computing in service of faster, but worse, software #development.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 23/09/2026
does Google deliberately make their Google Cloud APIs & Services library in the Cloud Console unusably slow in Firefox or is it just a happy coincidence
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/09/2026
Anyone have any experience running #Anubis in front of @nextcloud #Nextcloud and #Immich? Any trouble making the mobile clients etc work okay?
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 16/09/2026
Are there good, ethically-oriented alternatives to Cloudflare that exist? Services which do bot/scraper protection, tunnels for public domains and/or static site hosting seem few and far between. #cloudflare #cdn #dns #waf
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 16/09/2026
it remains to be seen what this means in practice - but it's definitely interesting from a UK perspective. if Canada were to do it too, I wonder if "associate membership" of the EU could be viable for a UK government too afraid to propose accession RE […]
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 09/09/2026
famously, Internet Explorer being forced on people had No Negative Consequences for Microsoft and was considered to be an all-around excellent idea. apropos of nothing. RE: mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/117241905193851110
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 08/09/2026
the polycule is getting out of control now c'mon RE: mastodon.social/users/Tutanota/statuses/117234852091794343
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 05/09/2026
hey does anyone have that post that's like "how lucky i am to be the one to do computer" that's a parody of the improv one okay thanks send post
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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
You do not own your DNS name, you rent it. And it can be taken from you at any time, for no reason at all. neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026
I mean, find me a single American tech organisation that *isn’t* full of right wing libertarians. That’s the secret lurking in open source - it’s actually a weird combo of gun-toting anti-government survivalists and radical progressives* who have managed for years to share some similar goals […]
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. Please sign and share
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Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who have already completed assessments. Ensure that any ongoing clinical review is conducted concurrently without disrupting active, established patient care. Publish clear, transparent Terms of Reference and a strict timeline for the independent review of the Welsh Gender Service.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 04/09/2026
this is actually 2024 vs 2014, as reported by the BBC from Defra data - but it is super cool to see as someone who grew up in London!! healthier cities has to be positive for all of us 🩷
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 03/09/2026
my laptop set the office inkjet as an ESCPOS dot-matrix printer for some reason earlier, so instead of printing, it just screams onto the page and i mean. yeah honestly reasonable, same
A blank sheet of A4 paper on a wood desk. Along the left side of the paper, one character on each line down the page is printed in a console-style font. The characters are mostly "F" repeated, with some "E"s, one "D", and random spaces. One line randomly has a dash before an "F".
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 03/09/2026
if you currently depend on #Laravel, this might be a good time to evaluate the cost of moving framework vs the likelihood of major issues appearing in the "soon" term...
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 02/09/2026
hivemind I have a question about #ACPI: is it dangerous to patch my server's initramfs to enable #ASPM when its FADT indicates that it is unsupported? the mobo does support pcie2, so not sure why FADT says that. power usage is a bit silly atm and I'd like to get it down ><
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school" "Labour’s anti-trans “guidance” is many orders of magnitude worse than Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 ever was"
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Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school"
Words by Dr Natacha Kennedy, a trans academic from Goldsmiths University  There’s no point in beating about the bush, the government’s new anti-trans “guidance” for schools is about harming trans chi...
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Joel VanderWerf @joelvanderwerf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
"So, you'd think that something that pretends to be “Artificial Intelligence” would use the most efficient way of using our data for training purposes, right? Clone the repos, walk every commit. Done. But no, let's in fact choose the stupidest possible way of doing it — by rendering everything […]
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!” Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it: Reclaim the public nature of the internet Small and […]
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Rachel "atomic butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
_["nuanced opinions on AI" voice]_ ...and so, in my opinion, all of you anti-book-burning people out there should go to book-burning rallies, learn how to properly burn books, learn their chants and slogans, maybe toss a few into the fire yourselves. that way, you can teach the people in your […]
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026
imagine a world in which, rather than imposing restrictions on social media users, we restricted social media _companies_ and gave kids a 1W tiny federated Pi Zero W to play with and form communities using - like the micro:bit project but more. suddenly, big tech could lose power over kids […]
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SnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2023
the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016) www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#…
Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:

Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.

[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026
finding slopscan.ava.pet by @star incredibly useful to do an initial pass of trustworthiness over projects to see How Slop They Are
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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
“I made this while learning a new programming language” “oh right? cool, let’s have a look…” > every single commit is co-authored by claude > readme stinks of sloptext “cool, looks good mate, well done.” because I’m too polite to say what I think. really I want to send a youtube link to […]
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lexi @lexi.flowers · 25/08/2026
i love the part of my job which includes making absurd cybersecurity training videos
Blue text on top of a video of coral reef - “even though fish are very pretty,”Blue text on top of a video of coral reef - “they cannot send emails.” and below, “(they do not have fingers to type them with)”
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 21/08/2026
@Waterfox any hope of anyone looking at WebAuthn being broken in Waterfox for Android, or could you give me some pointers at all about how I could get started contributing to look for how to fix it? This is potentially a dealbreaker issue for me, so it would be nice to either see sorted or to […]
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/08/2026
Did you know that the #InformationCommissioner #ICO in the UK is not required to assess the merits of #dataprotection complaints raised to it? Me either! Turns out current case law deems the ICO to have discharged its duties to "handle a complaint" once it has […] [Original post on fedi.cpf.sh]
Require the ICO to consider the merits of data protection complaints

Reform the Data Protection Act to require the Information Commissioner to reach decisions on data protection complaints on the basis of the merits of the complaint, not merely to record a complaint and procedurally respond.

Data subjects have a right to complain to the ICO when they consider their personal data rights to have been infringed. However, under the Data Protection Act 2018 as interpreted by Delo [2023] EWCA Civ 1141, the ICO has no obligation to investigate complaints' merits whatsoever, and can pick who it wants to enforce against. This prevents many from exercising their rights, as court action is out of reach; it also contrasts dramatically with FOI complaints, which the ICO is required to assess.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/08/2026
anyone I know have @delta #deltachat? been setting it up out of interest and would be good to test it :D
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 12/08/2026
Today on a slightly unreliable Internet connection I discovered that the Mailgun admin portal tries to load _fifteen megabytes_ of JavaScript in order even to open, and now honestly I'm kind of convinced we should just pack this whole internet thing up, it might be time
A screenshot of the Firefox developer tools Network panel showing two requests for Mailgun's JavaScript bundle, one of which is just over 9.58mb big and the other is 5.96mb big (though cached in this screenshot)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/07/2026
"people > platforms" seems like a great philosophy, but sometimes I forget - and I think _we_ forget - just how much influence platform has on culture. we are all products of our sociotechnical context! that's hard to transplant to a different one.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/07/2026
I'm not a lawyer, but Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 makes dishonestly making "untrue or misleading" statements about facts or "state of mind", "to make a gain", a criminal offense - _specifically including when done without human intervention_. Sending […] [Original post on fedi.cpf.sh]
Fraud by false representation

(1)A person is in breach of this section if he—

  (a)dishonestly makes a false representation, and

  (b)intends, by making the representation—

    (i)to make a gain for himself or another, or

    (ii)to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss.

(2)A representation is false if—

  (a)it is untrue or misleading, and

  (b)the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading.

(3)“Representation” means any representation as to fact or law, including a representation as to the state of mind of—

  (a)the person making the representation, or

  (b)any other person.

(4)A representation may be express or implied.

(5)For the purposes of this section a representation may be regarded as made if it (or anything implying it) is submitted in any form to any system or device designed to receive, convey or respond to communications (with or without human intervention).
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 25/07/2026
150,000 people turn up to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's "Unite the Kingdom" protest and the BBC "thoroughly cover" it "across (their) news network throughout the day". 150,000 people turn up to #LondonTransPride and it gets one article on the BBC's local London news […] [Original post on fedi.cpf.sh]
A view down Regent Street covered in pride flags, particularly the trans pride flag. The camera is tilted towards the sky so as to avoid capturing any identifiable faces of people.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 25/07/2026
an excellent and incredibly salient post; I fear that the shift in tech in the last two decades is down to more than the uspol mentioned within, but it truly is a deeply concerning shift RE: mastodon.social/users/rasterweb/statuses/116978614460472831
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 24/07/2026
Changing your work Google account email really does highlight the sheer number of services that erroneously and insecurely use the `email` GSI claim rather than the `sub` GSI claim to authenticate users (because I suddenly can't log in to any of them) (it's very frustrating)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 24/07/2026
any more folks coming to #LondonTransPride tomorrow? come say hi i will be there ​:trans_heart:​
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Kastor @kastor.sh · 23/07/2026
It’s finally out
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 21/07/2026
look, I'm a simple girl: I want a #browser that I can use on my phone and my computer, that will let me sync tabs across the two, and that isn't Blink-based (because I think browser diversity is important for an open web). up to now, I'm yet to find an alternative to #Firefox that fits those […]
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 19/07/2026
PowerPoint Karaoke at #emfcamp: campers, nuclear engineers and furries are, in fact, one and the same 🥰
A Venn diagram at EMFcamp on stage B of EMF, furries and  the nuclear industry. The Venn diagram is now a circle.A Venn diagram at EMFcamp on stage B of EMF, furries and  the nuclear industry. The Venn diagram is currently separate.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 19/07/2026
Join me on Stage A at 2pm today at #emfcamp to learn how to debug a human 🩺💻
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 18/07/2026
london underground signalling is powered by interlocking dogs and cats.. wonder what the furry high commission has to say about this (Laurence Stant's talk was excellent, highly recommend!) #emfcamp
A diagram of an interlock lever, featuring a "lock dog" and a "cat" within the locking bars.
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Low Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Seeing all these kids at #EMFCamp having the time of their lives and wondering how different my life might have been had I known at the age of ten that these people, this energy, exists in the world
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Hey Boop, your phone is by the composting toilets near the Badge Tent. #emfcamp2026
Find My screen on android alerting me to a lost device.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 17/07/2026
good morning #emfcamp! the sun is coming through the roof of the tent which means it's wakeup time like it or not jfkfhfhfjfkfjfhdhdjs come find the friends of the moon to find me :3
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 16/07/2026
#EMFcamp travel day! yippeeeeeeeeeeee- _remembers this means she has to drive for five hours_ oh,, worth it though!!! see you all in the field
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 11/07/2026
@info hi folks - can I just check what the gate opening time is? the ticket email and website conflict
With Electromagnetic Field fast approaching, here are your tickets and some more details about the event. The gates will open at 11am on Thursday 16th July to allow you to set up and get comfortable, and our programme of content kicks off at 11am on Thursday.Arrival & Departure Times

Site opening times
The site is open to the public from: Thursday 16th July 10:00 It closes: Monday 20th July 12:00 (midday)

More detailed times

* Thursday 16th July 10:00 Gates open. You can be on site from now; it's intended for folks to have a chance to set up their tents, find one another and get comfortable.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 10/07/2026
well, this is a new one on me. blocked from logging into the @cloudflare dashboard (on both work and personal accounts, I might add) by the CloudFlare WAF... both on and off a VPN 👀 I hope logging into the dashboard wasn't too suspicious a request(!)
A screenshot of the bottom of the login page from dash.cloudflare.com. A message is showing saying "API Request Failed: post https://dash.cloudflare.com/api/v4/login (403)". The Firefox Network Inspector is open viewing the response to that 403 request, which consists of a generic Cloudflare WAF "Sorry, you have been blocked" page (that then goes on to explain that the site operator is using a Cloudflare WAF...)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 10/07/2026
the person who eventually builds some kind of quantum negative-length USB-C adapter that can be left in devices that have awkwardly recessed Micro-B ports with weird waterproofing will put me in financial ruin (guess who just spent about five minutes searching for the right cable, _again_)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 09/07/2026
it is in your best interests to keep an eye out for the Moons around Site @emf 👁️🌙👁️ #EMFCamp #FOTM #moonhunt
A round, coloured, shiny circle with "FOT", a pixelated star, and a large pixelated M overlaid on top of the pixelated surface of the moon. A light is being cast over the circle demonstrating how it shines.
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