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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
remember when cross-browser testing was a thing? 🙁
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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
@Floppy strikes me this is one of many cogent arguments against the traditional idea that FOSS licenses should allow _absolutely_ any use for any reason - and in favour of @ethicalsource style licensing based on public benefit
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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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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 05/09/2026
@pikesley they have form on this issue too. RE: fedi.cpf.sh/notes/anvwnsnkp5ntt1h5
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 04/09/2026
@thisismissem.social how would you define data portability if not by the ability to transfer data from one provider to another?
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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 · 03/09/2026
@thisismissem Something like > _Use this account across the web?_ > Save your Bluesky.com account to your browser to login to other websites with. Manage this info in <Chrome settings>. > <No thanks> > <Save>
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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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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 02/09/2026
@thisismissem interesting! how are you distinguishing the last screenshot ("saving an account" for FedCM) from the password manager "saving an account"? I think I'd read that popup as the latter, not the former.
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 01/09/2026
@ret I've had exactly this happen and the staff were able to do exactly that, fwiw!
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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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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 31/08/2026
@pikesley Two things can surely be true at once!
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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 · 28/08/2026
@ramsey moderate to strong confidence the code here is undisclosedly LLM-generated in the same way as that website, unfortunately ;-;
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026
ah no sorry. far more important that we restrict them to 2 hours a day on instagram. because that will solve the problem.
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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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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026
@cody yeah, it's the biggest problem for me by far too :/ which is a shame because otherwise I'm really enjoying @Waterfox - see
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 26/08/2026
@cody I use it now and generally quite like it, though WebAuthn is currently borked on the Android version. It is sometimes a little buggy, but e.g. JPEG XL is nice, the inbuilt ad blocker is nice, etc
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 25/08/2026
@felixweber.co.uk i'm sure there's something here about infinite numbers of fish flopping around on infinite typewriters
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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
@isleofmandan glad the storytelling worked somewhat, you're probably doing better than most of our profession would anyway 😆 hope the rest of your shift goes well!
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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 · 21/08/2026
@isleofmandan I fear(/hope) it might be pitched slightly below your level 😆
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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
woah, I'm sorry - I evidently struck a nerve! OP's opted in to the bridge, I just happened to see the post in my tl. you found a post which wasn't directed at you annoying - struggling to understand why you felt the need to reply, but I hope it doesn't ruin your day. have a good one :)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/07/2026
@jacob.gold come to the other side of the @fed.brid.gy bridge 😉 we have at least the first two already! (as indicated by my client trying to spell check this post a little overzealously)
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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 28/07/2026
Of course, this is totally academic in this case anyway as I don't think either party is subject to UK law - but it does raise an interesting question around fraud by false representation by AI agents. I've not _heard_ of case law on this but I'd love to read it if there is some!
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