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Catharina
@catharinad04.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I am Swedish and French🇸🇪🇨🇵
Translator and business owner
Shareholder in Team for the Planet
Supporting European alternatives and collaboration🇪🇺

🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@CatharinaD04 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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"Vienna researchers retrieved all #whatsapp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"

"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Reposted by Catharina
Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @gargon@mastodon.social as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Catharina
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reposted by Catharina
I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Catharina
RE: https://mas.to/@BrianSmith950/115547909427527108

We 💚 our repair café in #chester!
One year in, we've built a great community - and completed 100 successful repairs 🙌 🛠️
#repaircafe
mas.to
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Mozilla: we are developing our AI features for Firefox with user input and emphasis on user choice

users: please stop. no-one who specifically uses alternative browser Firefox wants this. our choice is no

Mozilla:
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Catharina
Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Them: “We should make open source sustainable”
Me: “Can I get paid for my work?”
Them: “Not like that!”
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Catharina
📚 #Cyberpunk a démarré son épopée rétrofuturiste sur #franceinter ce matin au🎙de Marion L'Hour & Ali Baddou.

💥Vivent nos vies contre leur folie.

🎧 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Asma Mhalla : "Le fascisme de Trump est un fascisme hybride, qui ne se réfère qu'à lui-même"
Asma Mhalla, politologue et essayiste, est l'invitée du 7h50 pour son essai "Cyberpunk, le nouveau système totalitaire" (Seuil).
www.radiofrance.fr
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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📚 #Cyberpunk a passé le test de 2 recensions importantes
@lemonde.fr
@telerama.bsky.social

La reconnaissance de Roger Pol Droit compte beaucoup. La comparaison de Juliette Cerf à Paul Virilio pour ce texte hybride, est immense.

Cyberpunk sort demain.
@editionsduseuil.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM