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Katherine 🪴

@ webkitten @piefed.social

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Hi! I'm Katherine, or webkitten. I've been on the internet since our family got our first computer - a Tandy Sensation.

Yes, I went to computer camp as a kid and learned how to program BASIC on Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4.

I'm trans, queer, and bisexual. #actuallyautistic

I started programming with PHP in the mid 90s and haven't stopped. I'm an advocate for the open web; I used Netscape as long as I can remember.

I have an obsession with Hello Kitty, Moogles, and Squishmallows.

  • What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?

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  • Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?

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  • Depends on what type of incident; if it's something like noise in the hall or smoking, my apartment management handles it and lets people know (assuming it's warning territory).

    I'd imagine for anything else, it's a matter of not wanting to endanger people through escalation of non authority figures. I think you would have to have just cause to evict people, so having an official investigation would be imperitive.

  • Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade

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  • So it's less a Siri upgrade and more just a getting rid of Siri and putting in Gemini slop.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.

  • why?

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  • Good news; I found an outfit with pockets.

    Bad news; it's a romper.

  • Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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  • Wait'll you find out that over half the states in the US have age gating laws on the internet.

  • Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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  • Don't praise Cloudflare or Italy; both are part of the problem.

  • What's your favorite launcher for Android-based OS that values privacy?

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  • Lawnchair Nightly; it's not as good as Nova, yet, but it's getting there.

  • PBS News Confirms Weekend Team Will Air Final Broadcast on Sunday

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  • Donating to your local affiliate is good but I also recommend, if you can, to donate to other smaller affiliates too - especially the community public radio stations and ones not as focused on the news site of things.

    Personally PBS, Dropout, Beacon, and Democracy Now are the only streaming services I pay for and don't pirate.

  • YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match

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  • Adguard won't work but uBlock Origin on Librewolf or Firefox works with at least the EasyList subscription (possibly Peter Lowe's too). You can also use either the built in tracker in Vivaldi (just go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Manage Sources) and enable EasyList/disable the Allow ads from our partners).

    Vivaldi also supports MV2 uBlock Origin for now; it will say it's not supported but Vivaldi is fighting the removal of MV2).

    I've had a good mix of filters and haven't gotten the adblock warning for Youtube (knock on wood). It's been a while since configuring but I think enabling Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests and I'm an advanced user will help out.

    I have all the uBlock Filters, EasyList, AdGuard, AdGuard/uBO – URL Tracking Protection, Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, Phishing URL Blocklist

  • In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

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  • Happily.

  • Removed

    This browser extension replaces Wikipedia's donation pop-ups with a counter of its real revenue

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  • This reminded me to donate to Wikipedia.

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet

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  • You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.

  • PieFed right now feels like early reddit and I missed it

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  • We just need an Old Piefed theme. :)

  • X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out

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  • There is an opt-out. It's called deleting your account. An people should do it.

  • PieFed (and the fediverse) is fucking awesome.

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  • Imagine a nostalgic ezboard replacement built on top of Piefed. :)

    Also I know what you mean, I've been looking at the source code and learning. I'd love to see some alternative themes like Lemmy has (especially an "old Reddit" type of theme for Piefed.

  • What tool or website did you find this year that made your year?

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  • 2026 is the year of the linux desktop

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  • 2026 shouldn't be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.

  • Pizza is a tomato pie.

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  • Correction; a tomato pie with pineapple.