charges for WiFi normally _really_ bug me, but the one time I'd be quite happy to pay extra if it meant a better connection: train journeys TOCs, _please_ install a reliable fast network connection to your trains, the current state is often worse than useless 😭

hate it when android notifications come in late. been waiting since 6 BCE for my double points notif

[selfie] y'all are in the closet. i'm in the shed. we are not the same

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

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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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

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.

cpf.sh

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

Anyone have any experience running #Anubis in front of @nextcloud #Nextcloud and #Immich? Any trouble making the mobile clients etc work okay?

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

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 […]

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

the polycule is getting out of control now c'mon RE: mastodon.social/users/Tutanota/statuses/117234852091794343

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

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. https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

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 […]

Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. Please sign and share

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 🩷

Daniel Moser@dmoser.bsky.social · last mo.

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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

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...

Michael Thomas@michael.mstdn.thms.uk.ap.brid.gy · last mo.

Yikes! This wouldn't be half as bad if Taylor wasn't absolutely famous for closing PRs without any feedback. #Laravel #PHP

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 ><

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"

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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"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 […]

🆕 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 […]

_["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 […]

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 […]

Stefano on littleFedi@stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · last mo.

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

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) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

finding slopscan.ava.pet by @star incredibly useful to do an initial pass of trustworthiness over projects to see How Slop They Are

“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 […]

i love the part of my job which includes making absurd cybersecurity training videos

@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 […]

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]