Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Also exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.
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I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.
Low key been wanting to do this for years. (almost a decade?)
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-pattern
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-store
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mqtt-emitter
Probably in Rust tho so it can be embedded more easily.
Anyone wanna pay me to make an #MQTT inspired p2p database?
Element is like the least efficient app I've used to date. It somehow manages to take like 10 minutes to load while totally freezing my browser and spinning my CPU fan to max loudness.
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Holy shit this is incredibly good news https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
Holy shit the new #Phi3 #LLM from microsoft is 3.8B params but performs better than a bunch of 7B models I've tried. Now I just need to find a way to get it to do function calling.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24137534/microsoft-phi-3-launch-small-ai-language-model
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Ghost publishing platform joins the #fediverse with support for ActivityPub.
It’s fun seeing the support spread:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137296/ghost-newsletter-activitypub-fediverse-support
Programming is wizardry, Prompt engineering is demonology.
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I have found it… the next evolution of curl | sudo sh
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/pdsadmin.sh
Shell script that takes a subcommand, downloads a script by the name of the subcommand from github, then executes it as root
It's a majorly missed opportunity that tools like huggingface don't use bittorrent for distribution by default.
The Crow was the original Joker 2019
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Casual reminder to Ignore the anti-union propaganda from corporate America.
If unions were actually bad for workers, corporations wouldn't need to spend millions of dollars on union-busting.
Happy weed day to those that celebrate. 🍃🍃
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@bryan @julia I have also said at one point that software should never be an experience, because if you are experiencing the software instead of the task that means the software is getting in the way or distracting you or both. The ideal user experience, IMO, is one where the software disappears entirely.
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@gabrielesvelto @kbrosnan @fabrice @mhoye @mconley
I realise this thread has strayed way off its original topic, but... hot take:
Mozilla should bring back Firefox OS.
Putting decade-old company politics aside it was the most innovative and potentially disruptive thing Mozilla ever built, before and since, and is needed now more than ever.
For smartphones maybe, but also all manner of other smart devices where owning the OS is the only effective way to disrupt the incumbents.
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i will have some availability to take on new client work in may! if there's anywhere my experience in graphics, full stack web development, game design/development, programming languages, or distributed systems can be helpful -- please reach out!
you'll not only be supporting me but my cooperative @emma too, which means supporting a democratically managed worker-owned workplace! which is cool!!!
boosts welcome!
Love how Mastodon embeds a different URL in the post content compared to the `href` in the `tag` array for the `Mention` object. 🤪
It may just be due to me using an ancient version of it.
I wish fantasy style magic was real. I'd love to have a levitation spell 😭 Might help with this joint pain.
Feels very satisfying to make it under the "perfect" number of moves in these sliding block puzzles. I wonder if they're made by algorithm or by humans.
Great article with analogies to how the destruction of "scientific forestry" relates to the destruction of online diversity with social media and growth hacking tech.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Also exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
