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.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
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.
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Too many smart home devices insist on having lit displays when some kind of reflective LCD or e-ink display would almost always provide a better experience at a lower power consumption.
Maybe I'm just very particular about home lighting but if I do want to see values on the sensor hardware itself, I probably do not want it to light up in the dark and I also probably want to be able to read it from a slight distance without having to get up and push a button.
New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.
Apparently minecraft isn't great for making use of multi threading. IMO there's an algo somewhere in there to find gaps between players and to run their simulations separately from each other and merge zones onto single threads as needed (Say within 5 chunks of each others simulation distance)
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You are regularly being scanned like this without knowing it.
"This photo was taken with a camera modified with a filter to capture the infrared light emitted by a face recognition camera. I had to shoot the subject in total darkness in order to cut out visible light and allow the camera to pick up on the infrared beams of a face recognition camera."
Gonna try this to de-crap my friend's laptop.
Anyone got an updated guide on removing all the AI crapware from default Windows?
I need the new steam controller and vr headset to come out already 😭
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Sometimes in order to set up a computer you need a second computer that has working wifi already
Had a really great day off. Managed to be productive by some metrics but also relaxed a lot.
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Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security.
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TIL Inkscape has built-in zine templates! You can design the individual pages and then it lays out the print layout automatically. Neat!
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hey so this finally happened. the little mechanical arm at my parking garage is fucked because of the Microsoft outage.
Anyone else have the oAuth on all their outlook emails break at the same time?
I wish more people thought one level higher than what's right under their nose.
A lot of "independent news" accounts focus on rage baiting their readers and getting them addicted to the feeling smug hatred. It doubles as a way to amplify toxic nihilism and anti social viewpoints. I doubt the creators care much beyond getting those views and the money they can scrounge with them.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. 
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. 
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
Whoops. Got my discord account locked for a day again. 😅
Working on turning my "Decentralized social media" talk into a blog post!
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- @RangerMauve
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
