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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I am *loving* how every site puts up a Cloudflare or other "checking your browser" delaywall, before I can read a page.
It's just like early '90s web, you'd hit a link, wait for up to 90s for the page to even respond, start loading in, images would be many seconds or minutes more.
The wait builds appetite. Did you *need* to see this page, or just *want* it? Triage those links before clcking.
Consider closing browsers & going outside, play some hackeysack & drink Jolt Cola, while Korn plays.
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This community has been really wonderful.
When we started deploying the first #MeshCore repeaters around #Boston / #CambridgeMA we were just a couple of folks trying out this new thing after many frustrations with #Meshtastic, and today we are this enormous group of adhoc communities that have self-organized into a decentralized, off-the-grid mesh radio network.
I don't know what's more punk than that.
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#reminder
you can have big heap , or you can be decentralized but you cannot have both
I got the fancy DXG spark clone that Asus released. 🙈🙈 I've never owned this much compute before. Gonna connect it to my local net and ssh fron my wearable computer for extra cyberpunk cred.
I love how my notification reader pronounces "hehehehehehe"
According to my mother I've had really good night vision since I was a toddler walking around the house with zero night lights. I still love getting to wander at night, especially when I'm too far from the city's light pollution.
Verbatim copy pasting your slop logs is so cringe. 😵
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#Deepfakes are everywhere, but #DigitalForensics investigators are fighting back:
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I think it's sad that we've lost sight of doing things for fun. I get asked often why I don't start a shop and sell candles and tea and soap. Usually when I give them as gifts. And the thing is, I love making this stuff, either for myself or for others. But giving something as a gift is different than making a product for a client/customer. Not everything needs to make money. I realize that this suggestion that I sell whatever is because obviously in today's world having more money and more security is good. But I have a job that i do to make money. I teach technology. Tech isn't a passion. It pays well and I feel good knowing that I'm helping my students have more independence and the ability to make informed choices because they have access to the wider world because of the technology. But in my not work time, I have zero interest in beta testing or coding, or reading about it, or trying this or that. I read enough to be informed but Tech isn't what lights me up. It pays the bills, and I really appreciate that because i have a job I love working with awesome humans. And then, when I've done my work I can go home to the things that fill my cup. Candlemaking, or making different things like soap or tea blends. It is a very meditative and relaxing experience and the work for me is the experience I enjoy. I love when other people enjoy what I make but I think if I were to need to do it for money it would turn something I love into something that stresses me out. It's ok to do things for fun, it's ok to not want to take what you find fun and monetize it. I'm saying this because surely, surely I cannot be the only person who feels this way, but even if it is, thats OK, because I'm having a good time.
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Do you call posts here toots.
TIL about `node:util` `isDeepStrictEqual` which is handy for comparing two arbitrarily structured values in JavaScript. Before I'd have nasty code to handle edge cases. #nodejs
https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#utilisdeepstrictequalval1-val2-options
Fun tip: You can DOS random bots by making them count to a million over and over to use up their tokens.
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the word "short" is actually short for "shortened horticulture".
Ontario alert system works, apparently. 🤪
I kinda want an air horn.
Anyone else been seeing an uptick in email spam wanting to "invest" in your "industry"?
Investing my valuable personal programming time into my human relationships instead. 🤷
Maybe I should just slop dev that "simplified renderer of html" project. 🤷
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hahaa! Successfully removed all IR and UV filters from my old Canon EOS 600D, I can do full spectrum, UV and IR photography now!
All of the following photos have been taken with a ~550nm+ lpf, meaning cutting everything under 550nm (blue, purple and uv) off. I love the vibrant pink foliage and dramatic turquoise skies #photography
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A tremendous amount of the scientific infrastructure is based on volunteerism and the assumption that the basics of survival have been met.
I'm thinking of all of the infrastructure that makes the process actually work --- reviewing for journals, reviewing for promotion at other institutions, presenting talks, helping students, faculty governance, doing more than the absolute minimum in teaching, helping with collaborations on projects, etc.
As the grant-getting situation gets more difficult, it becomes more and more difficult to actually provide these services (not because I don't want to, but simply because my head is full of funding crises and I just... how do the kids say it? ... don't have the spoons).
Importantly, I do not think that the solution is to start charging for these things. Once you start selling them, you become a business. I *like* the volunteer system. It means that I can do these things because I believe in them. It means I can do these things for the people who deserve them and need them, not for the people who can pay for them. Moreover, the amount that one could reasonably charge for these things is no where close to the cost of running a lab. The amount of reviewing one would need to do at $450 a pop to get to the price of a trainee ($75k+) is not reasonable mathematics and would not leave one time to do the actual science.
But I don't know how much longer I can do these favors for everyone while I watch my laboratory starve to death.
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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
