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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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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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mhoye

There's nothing I can do for this person. But the enormity of it. They've cobbled up a machine out of nothing but trash and their own tenacity, and they want to help us build Firefox? There's lots of ways to do that, but building it, compiling it, that can't happen. Not on this machine.

There's always been a financial barrier to participation in open source. Always. And we have to make it as low as we possibly can.

But a _wealth_ minimum bar, to contributing?

That's vile. It's disgusting.

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Mauve 👁💜

Survived the travel. My poor body has been trying its best

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Mauve 👁💜

changed my speech based computer control to buffer until I say "execute" and it's been a lot nicer to use as a result. Before I would constantly interrupt the inference if I took too long of a pause and caused cache misses and general confusion. The STT is still a bit shit and misses the start of sentences sometimes. 😅

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👈🤞🤗👌👉

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Fancy people brands like gucci look so uninspired and tacky to me

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Uuugh. I need a better battery for my friggen cyberdeck. This one seems to have an off by one error on the most significant bit in its battery life calculation.

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I was thinking of adding some images but I think I'll focus on text descriptions instead so blind readers get the picture and sighted folks can just click through on the links to the product pages.

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Gotta stay awake an extra 10 hours this cycle and push back the sleep phase. Taking this time to write some code and work on my blog post for my cyberdeck.

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Cindʎ Xiao 🍉

what an excellent week it has been for the idea that our society should be organized around increasingly complex computer systems controlled by unaccountable private entities

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Hal Pomeranz

We’re going to find out that USA air traffic control is dependent on a spreadsheet that gets emailed daily via Office365, aren’t we?

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Off by one error for my plane ticket back 😜

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Quixoticgeek

Software quality would improve greatly if developers were forced to work on a device with a 10 year old CPU, 25G of storage, and 2GB of ram. The amount of resources necessary to do the simplest of operations is just bonkers. Not everyone has infinite disc space, and a never ending supply of RAM.

FFS.

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Sean Heber

It’s interesting how entirely unaffected I’ve been by this massive Microsoft outage. Like, literally if it weren’t for people talking about it I’d have no idea it was happening. Nothing I’ve used all day today had any issues. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Mauve 👁💜

So pumped for the new goat simulator DLC!

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WeSense

🌍 WeSense v1.0.0-alpha.1 shipped.

First public release of a decentralised environmental sensor network built to outlast any single company or government. Readings flow from ESP32s, Meshtastic, Home Assistant and government APIs, through a signed P2P archive layer, to permanent community-hosted storage. CC-BY-4.0 by default.

- No API paywall, no single point of control

wesense.earth
github.com/wesense-earth/wesen

#WeSense #OpenData #P2P

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Martin Boller :debian: :tux: :freebsd: :mastodon: :heart_pride:

We invented the internet specifically to be resilient through decentralisation, then spent the last twenty years cramming the whole thing into three cloud providers and calling it "progress."

Ukraine just reminded us in real-time why single points of failure are a bad idea, yet somehow, we’ll still act shocked the next time one outage takes down half the planet.

This is a subtoot about Microsoft.

Edit: Changed "survive a nuclear war" to "be resilient"

#Microsoft #Down #Decentralise #RYOMS #RunYourOwnMailServer

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Mauve 👁💜

In the age of LLMs all data is easier to mine and turn into databases. In particular any private notes you swnd to a cloud service. Before even if yhey read your messages, it was way more work toake them usable. Now it's just a number of dollars and cranks of the slop machine.

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The main question seems to be about our use of LLMs in our development process. Main concern is with liability and ownership with code.

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We're finally having our "AI policy" discussion at work. It's neat because we have a wide range of opinions. Especially neat given we're an org focused on environmental conservation.

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LabSpokane

Is this an inconvenient moment to point out Microsoft has shed almost 36% of its workforce in two years?

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