Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
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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.
You really can't appreciate how much 12 keys dedicated to "function keys" is until you have to map all of them on a chorded keyboard.
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@mauve Most proprietary software, especially online services, are 90+% open-source software anyway...
Gonna slop up a speech-dispatcher based notification server so I can hear notifications from apps without needing a full graphical session.
Adjusted my nanorc to be more screen reader friendly. Also made speech-dispatched speak all the special characters so I know wtf is actually on the screen. Might want to extend my reader to handle reading camel case and snake case along with how it pitches up for capitalized words.
It's not even that I like #OpenSource software just for the freedom. Proprietary software keeps getting worse while open source gets less buggy. Just a few months ago I had problems that are non issues now since someone fixed them for free without trying to get me dependant on some subscription service for it.
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So, my observations on #meshtastic and #meshcore so far:
Meshtastic seems like the thing you'd bring on a trip. Excellent for adhoc communication in a smaller area without any established network. One firmware does it all. Very chatty and limited to only 3 jumps, making long distance a challenge. Bring it on a trekking trip or a multi vehicle road trip. Great for tactical and ad hoc deployment.
MeshCore is less ad hoc. While the companion firmware can talk directly to each other, the network's backbone are devices with the repeater firmware. MeshCore supports routing discovery (with fallback) and limits unnecessary repeating by enabling only specific regions. When you have up to 64 hops available, messages intended for your neighborhood shouldn't be repeated to the next city over. Configure this right, and it scales like crazy. Use MeshCore at home. Put a repeater on your roof. Build a consistent mesh and a community. This is where MeshCore shines.
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god so many web designers have never tried to navigate their website with the tab key and it shows
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Microsoft are telling customers there is no ETA to resolution and they may want to review their DR plans for their SaaS services.
"Customers may wish to review their business continuity and disaster recovery plans and take actions appropriate for their environment."
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rant, ai
dont fucking tell me "Wikipedia still can't be sold." when you signed a deal with gur fucking pollution machine shit bag ai companies to give them access to data thousands of people added in good will for gur benefit of gur community.
"This year, Wikipedia has had fewer visitors and fewer new supporters", wow its almost like when you betray user trust people respond by being less trusting in you, who'd've fucking guessed???
@bx Just FYI, with gur way you type I imagine gur bird in your profile picture saying it out loud in a little bird voice. (affectionately)
It's amazing how much TC39 managed to shove into ES6 back in the day
Does anyone even use Object.freeze anymore? I feellike the immutable data structure trend was really short lived in JS
The problem with new doc martins is that instead of breaking in, they just break.
I like how minimal and fast https://pi.dev is and it mostly plays nice with my local models. It's absolutely not screen reader friendly and their streaming rendering approach means each sentence gets repeated over and over again with each added word. 💀
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Working for large corporations erodes your future prospects as a worker because it makes it easier for a few giants to collude to reduce the average salary with coordinated mass layoffs. This is why there's so many white collar jobs being destroyed, not because "ai" is going to replace them all.
Can't wait to play antichamber in a few decades so I can experience it like it was new again.
wtb: orb of eternal suffering
Infinite flesh glitch.
Major rewrite number 4 on this feature I've been several months overtime on. 😭
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
