cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/09/2026hate it when android notifications come in late. been waiting since 6 BCE for my double points notif 000
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 010
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingcait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 27/09/2026with #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/r6dq5acpf.shThe world no longer wants software engineersDon'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. 011
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 27/09/2026with #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/r6dq5acpf.shThe world no longer wants software engineersDon'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. 011
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 23/09/2026does Google deliberately make their Google Cloud APIs & Services library in the Cloud Console unusably slow in Firefox or is it just a happy coincidence 100
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/09/2026Anyone have any experience running #Anubis in front of @nextcloud #Nextcloud and #Immich? Any trouble making the mobile clients etc work okay? 011
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 16/09/2026Are 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 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 16/09/2026it 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 […]fedi.cpf.shOriginal post on fedi.cpf.sh 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 09/09/2026famously, 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/117241905193851110mastodon.social 001
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 08/09/2026the polycule is getting out of control now c'mon RE: mastodon.social/users/Tutanota/statuses/117234852091794343mastodon.social 010
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 05/09/2026hey 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 000
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingAndrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026You 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/2026/09/03neil.fraser.name.name TerminationComments 1117
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingJames Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026I 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 […]mastodon.me.ukOriginal post on mastodon.me.uk 2320
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingHeather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 04/09/2026Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. Please sign and sharepetitions.senedd.walesPetition: 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. 3199137
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 04/09/2026this 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 🩷 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 03/09/2026my 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 010
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 03/09/2026if 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... 011
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 02/09/2026hivemind 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 >< 000
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingHeather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 01/09/2026Dr 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"scenemag.co.ukDr 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... 24521
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingJoel 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 […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 008
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingTerence 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 […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 1410
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingRachel "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 […]social.treehouse.systemsOriginal post on social.treehouse.systems 001
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026imagine 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 […]fedi.cpf.shOriginal post on fedi.cpf.sh 110
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingSnoopJ @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2023the 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#… 0616
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026finding slopscan.ava.pet by @star incredibly useful to do an initial pass of trustworthiness over projects to see How Slop They Are 000
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingRet @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 […]furry.engineerOriginal post on furry.engineer 143
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkinglexi @lexi.flowers · 25/08/2026i love the part of my job which includes making absurd cybersecurity training videos 1101
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 […]fedi.cpf.shOriginal post on fedi.cpf.sh 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/08/2026Did 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] 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 20/08/2026anyone I know have @delta #deltachat? been setting it up out of interest and would be good to test it :D 002
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 12/08/2026Today 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 002
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. 010
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/07/2026I'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] 100
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 25/07/2026150,000 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] 135
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 25/07/2026an 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/116978614460472831mastodon.social 000
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 24/07/2026Changing 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) 010
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 24/07/2026any more folks coming to #LondonTransPride tomorrow? come say hi i will be there :trans_heart: 120
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 21/07/2026look, 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 […]fedi.cpf.shOriginal post on fedi.cpf.sh 210
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 19/07/2026PowerPoint Karaoke at #emfcamp: campers, nuclear engineers and furries are, in fact, one and the same 🥰 033
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 19/07/2026Join me on Stage A at 2pm today at #emfcamp to learn how to debug a human 🩺💻 111
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 18/07/2026london 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 121
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingLow Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026Seeing 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 1153
Reposted by cait, probably overthinkingTerence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026Hey Boop, your phone is by the composting toilets near the Badge Tent. #emfcamp2026 010
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 17/07/2026good 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 :3 010
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 010
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 100
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 10/07/2026well, 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(!) 100
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 10/07/2026the 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_) 110
cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 09/07/2026it is in your best interests to keep an eye out for the Moons around Site @emf 👁️🌙👁️ #EMFCamp #FOTM #moonhunt 010