cait, probably overthinking

Imagine how many more people we could incentivise to use public transport if we made the British train system not terrible

the existence of queer people is not political. the BBC's decision to blur someone's identity, on the other hand, sure as hell is RE: syzito.xyz/ap/users/116470783868321026/statuses/117500725338103242

It is now unsafe not to turn off your computer.

eMudhra has called it quits entirely on SSL/TLS certs. unrelatedly, eMudhra stock is down 37.12% so far this week emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business

this thread is an excellent read on how "Interesting" this week has been in technology, and what it might mean for us in future RE: discuss.systems/users/ricci/statuses/117483932656785886

It is now unsafe not to turn off your computer.

hello would anyone else like to scream into the void with me after today okay thank you send post

Perhaps if Chainguard are on your advance disclosure lists, they shouldn't be > On October 21st at 07:41 UTC, more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images containing the fix. Like other distributors, Chainguard had […]

MORE RCE?!? TODAY??? IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE??? nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases#nodejs-brotli-decoder-out-of-bounds-write-permits-remote-code-execution-cve-2026-111497---high

they're calling it the worst press release in the history of planet earth

oh dear the launchpad servers are on fire (hugops canonical)

everyone working in web engineering, devops or cybersec today:

relatedly, if you are currently running #Iceshrimp on Docker using the provided image, the image will need a rebuild to revoke the #eMudhra CAs. until a new image is provided, your instance is potentially insecure until you run something like `docker exec -it -u 0 iceshrimp.net_web /bin/sh -c […]

apropos of nothing, anyone have any bright ideas about how to revoke a root CA's validity for all containers across a #Docker host? 😩

Joelle was 27. Her family say urgent cancer treatment was delayed because she was trans, resulting in her avoidable death. Please support Trans Legal Clinic’s fight for justice and accountability. Donate if you can, and share. www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

crushing. as a healthcare professional & as a human, hearing the health system failed is always awful - but as described herein, institutional transphobia in our NHS killed this young woman. I've donated below to try and prevent this happening again, please consider it too 👇 go.cpf.sh/joelle

"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works. None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful […]

thinking about how cool it would be for #lastfm or an alternative like @ListenBrainz to federate into ActivityPub: being able to see what friends were listening to in my feed without having to hop to another app would be fun!

what do you MEAN cancelled unknown reason TfL 😭 www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C35308/2026-10-11

god _everything_ is personalised these days huh

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

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

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

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 🩷

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...

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"

"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 […]

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