Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

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. 😅

Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

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.

Lived without a microwave for a few years because a pizza pocket burned ours. Honestly kind of peaceful.

Seriously, 20 bucks to a random artist will make their whole day.

If you have disposable income for random faff, you should spend some of it on local artists. Go to a show and tip the performers or buy something from a local craft show.

Monthly reminder for folks on the Bluesky side that I can't reply to your comments unless you join the Bluesky->Fediverse bridge: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started

Revoking access and ignoring changes from removed members is one of the trickier bits of peer to peer software.

The friggen AI companies are even putting ads into their HTTP UserAgent strings while they scrape you. 😭

Organizing communities online is a great idea but there's gotta be a way to do it without the addictive doomscrolling dunk fest.

Genuinely think the web is best run by the obsessive and deranged. Happy people should spend most of their time interacting in meatspace as God intended.

I'm hoping the next big social trend will be to log off and touch grass so that the weirdos can reclaim the net again

Would it be weird if I forked this lisp firmware for my t-deck and added some mesh network stuff? 👉👈🥺

http://www.ulisp.com/show?4JAO

Instead of "is it decentralized" I'm more interested in "can it work off-grid".

It's not enough to circumvent internet censorship by making new tunnels to the internet. We should be building on foundations that don't have these single points of failure in the first place.

New moon tonight. Review how the past month has gone and how you want the new one to happen.

Information systems 🤤