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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 6h

oh, firefox hired the guys who did the repulsive android redesign, great

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

i bet no nut november is basically zero-additional-effort if you're already allergic. they should give you a different thing to avoid i think

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

chat, does watching a youtube video with 127 bibliography references cited in it qualify as 'consuming slop'

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

is calling the Department of Defense 'Department of War' a type of deadnaming. discuss

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

i don't think there's anything quite as bad for my mental health as the ambient temperature being above 23°C and by "anything" i mean _anything_.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

oh hell yes, this would be so good for making accessible webapps with Emscripten bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/pro…

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

your project might be technically impressive and have a "wow" factor but if it has slop all over it i'm absolutely not going to promote or contribute to it

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102

brochure ad for the Indelec Prevectron 3 Connect IOT connected lightning rod. it is a cone-shaped metal thing with several pointy things at the tip aimed at a center upwards spike, a large metal band just beneath that, and several sharp looking triangular spikes aimed downwards in a cone. a bit beneath it is a small solar panel.

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part time xyla @xyla.zip · 28/09/2026

drugs, ?????

Wine (from a Wikipedia-style site)

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from
fermented fruit (typically grapes) which causes
Linux users to enter a mental state that allows
them to run Microsoft Windows applications in
their mind.

[photo]
Red and white wine, served in cool glasses.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[aipol] > LLMs are most useful for people who know what they are doing – experienced people who can spot errors quickly, know the obvious pitfalls, and feel frustrated they can’t get more junior staff to do exactly the thing they asked for. They are made for the kind of people who think “if […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

so i'm learning ed not ed(1), the standard editor the CP/M ED.COM

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

incidentally, I am still open to finding a job I enjoy more 1) I work from home in Amsterdam. If you are also in Amsterdam, I can physically appear before you on a regular basis. 2) I am not at this exact second a Dutch citizen but I'm working on getting that sorted and finally getting my US […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

OH: "PULL UP PULL UP as i watch upper management steer the entire department into the ground"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

chat do u think i could book a home cleaning service with a note "do not kill the cellar spiders or fuck up their webs"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

OH: "I think that one time i almost died in a train from heatstroke is a better rail experience than the things you described to me about british rail" (this is accurate btw)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

i wonder if anybody will be masochistic enough to assemble a #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD1 by hand

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

thanks to Elen Eisendle's (@cmb) extraordinary effort over the last several months, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD1 design files have been sent to JLC. we hope this will also be the production revision (or if we do have a revD2, it happens with […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[war] today i'm really excited to see what's in the guts of the Geran-2 mesh networking modem. I've long wanted to know how the hell do these things swarm

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

lol blocked by david gerard by making him actually back up the shittalk with facts

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

you know, we've been saying this for... i think the first time i've coherently put a similar statement together was 2021? social.coop/@cwebber/11732124277930… i suppose experience is a great teacher even for those who wouldn't listen

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

apparently while being half asleep i googled "can you fuck in full plate armor" (as i just found closing tabs on my phone). i have no idea why

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@KernelRecipes/117314… can you imagine an alternate reality where traditional (slopless) fuzzers got the same corporate marketing and "dangerous cyberweapon" hype? i bet trump would've been so excited about the greatest cybergreatness of the AMERICAN fuzzy lop

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

one mole of bits is just 75 zettabytes. we've probably stored more than one mole of bits already

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[kink] "trickle down economy" should have been about watersports but isn't

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[war] every once in a while i check reibert to see if there's anything interesting to reverse-engineer and apparently there's a new naming scheme "Beetroot" is something like a dashcam for a Shahed-136/Geran-2 "Borscht" is an LTE tracker "Radish" […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"Samantha America Strand. Our new president" ok i understand what people said before about kojima. and why Sam Bankman-Fried was the same naming scheme

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

existence of milsurp auctions implies the existence of milfsu--

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

steam should have a game category for "fun ones"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I don't think there's an amount of genAI stuff they could add to KDE that will make me consider using Gnome

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

do I know any electronical engineers who would be willing to review Glasgow revD1 schematic/layout before we send it to the fab tomorrow evening? it's in KiCAD and available on github.com/tachiniererin/glasgow/tr… if you have the time and inclination

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GitHub - tachiniererin/glasgow at hw-revD1

Scots Army Knife for electronics. Contribute to tachiniererin/glasgow development by creating an account on GitHub.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

wow, installing anything from ports on freebsd is absurdly slow

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

the next #ChiPass release is shaping up nicely, including some accessibility fixes (it should be usable on touchscreens now, for example)

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TheZoq2 @thezoq2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

One of the coolest things to happen in Spade yet 👀 @breakingtaps wrote and taped out a Transport Triggered Architecture processor from scratch in a month with 0 prior experience! This video is also one of the better intros to digital hardware design I've seen, certainly much better than some of […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

i have now watched (ten episodes of) "yani neko", "chainsmoker cat" a) i'm built sort of like this but i never went to _that_ much of an extreme b) is it bad that the show mostly brings up specific good memories and i kind of go "hmmmm i should do some of those things again"

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