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Mauve 👁💜

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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Mauve 👁💜

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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Presenting the local LLM stuff in Agregore tomorrow at the branch of AI Tinkerers. Hopefully it all goes smoothly :)

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Eugen Rochko

Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).

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Delta Chat

@oceane @lrvick oh, we are very much working with and for people in heavily repressive situations and they often use #deltachat when signal, threema, WhatsApp don't work .... And even if they do. Why? Because our apps provide instant onboarding without phone numbers, multi-profile and multi-device support and a pretty secure audited and analysed key management protocol without key servers. Plus support for state of the art circumvention proxying. There is a whole lot more than PFS to consider.

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Curmudgeon

But now comes the hard part. Finding a server. This can be frustrating to the new user. There are over 3000 servers listed on the Mastodon site, where you can choose the ones that match your interests. They will all be closed to new members.
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Mauve 👁💜

Bringing up the phase of the moon is defs upping my witchy factor 😈

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Distributed Press

Have you ever lost digital content or a website? After a major project went offline, filmmaker Brandon Tauszik realized the need to preserve his work from link rot. So StarlingLab teamed up with us and SuttyWeb to create a future-proof, portable version of his portfolio. The websites were recreated in a way to be cloned and hosted in multiple places. We published copies on IPFS and Hypercore as portable code, making them resilient to link rot! Read more here: starlinglab.org/case-studies-l

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Bruno Philipe

@polpo you know what's crazy? One time I accidentally cracked a full-size SD Card open, and I found that inside it was just a microSD card adapter with a permanently attached microSD card.

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James Brown

Easier to see the 3D when it's only the camera that's moving.

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Mauve 👁💜

The full moon is coming up. Be gentle with yourself and be weary of rash decisions.

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Can confirm that getting an extra 10 GB of RAM to allocate to applications has improved my quality of life :P

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I love long weekends but the hectic first day of catching up on meetings and emails can be a lot :P

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jonny (good kind)

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

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Really wanna do some content addressed p2p data sharing over meshtastic :o

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jwz

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-- William Gibson, Count Zero - The favorite author of the exact people he was writing about.

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Mike Piontek

Complaining about software 

There are a lot of dumb things my computer does but this is like… really high up there
#macOS #MacDev

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There's something a little perverse about using an entire Playstation 5 to play McPixel but the game is fun as heck.

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WiltClan

@mcc
It’s unspeakable how many cryptic little icons have invaded new apps.

- little downward caret
- ellipsis
- VERTICAL ellipsis
- plus sign
- click your own profile pic to access everything important
- gear
- gear, but it does only 1 thing, which is never useful
- hamburger
- hamburger but only 5 items inside, & only 1 is useful
- ℹ️

The future is me with a big text file, 1 heading per app, saying what sequences to click for each workflow. It becomes outdated every 36 hours.

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For anyone in that's interested in tech or / tech, I'll be presenting about how user agents can enable web applications to do AI stuff while leaving control over the model and data to users. I'll be demoing how we do it in @agregore with an example app that generates web apps using your local LLM and publishes to

lu.ma/8bx7426h?tk=mvC314

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jenny (phire)

Genuinely, who is organizing progressives in Canada and how do I get involved? It feels like the center left has absolutely been asleep here since 2015 and I don’t know what the fuck to do about it.

ETA: I am looking for actual names of groups, people, organizations, not analysis. I don’t want to hear about NGOs and certified non-profits. I fucking get why this is happening and don’t need a lecture telling me what I already know, I’m looking for who’s actually working on the problem.

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kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I hope you're all on the path to IPv6

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