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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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Florian Gilcher

I'm pretty amazed how much "Move away from GitHub" is becoming a serious conversation popping up outside of the usual circles. Perceived product quality has dropped so hard that it's not just the usual moral argument anymore.

A good time for free and open source software solutions to compete.

Like, I'm talking "It's a topic in management level circles of multinationals".

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Elijah Massey

@mauve @bscross32 Yes, using Wayland is exactly the problem. Speakup only works on the plain virtual terminal, and it will not work under X or Wayland. Speakup is a kernel module (so no package is necessary for it because it is in the Arch kernel), and espeakup is the program that connects to speakup on /dev/softsynth and speaks its output using eSpeak NG. Just make sure you are on a real virtual terminal (plain TTY), make sure the speakup_soft module is loaded, and start the espeakup service, and it should work. Also make sure sound can play as root. If you use Pipewire or PulseAudio, you may have to do some work for that, but if you use plain ALSA, it should be fine. Personally I use speechd-up instead, because even though it hasn't been maintained in many years, I still prefer it because it uses Speech Dispatcher instead of directly using eSpeak NG, meaning its a lot easier to increase the maximum speech rate, and I can use Pipewire and run Speech Dispatcher as my user, run speechd-up as root, and point it to the Speech Dispatcher socket for my user with the SPEECHD_ADDRESS environment variable, so I can still use Pipewire with Bluetooth audio and its other advantages, and still use speakup.

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question: How the heck do I actually use `espeakup`? I have it running as a system service but I'm not sure how to make it do anything. e.g. I don't hear anything when it starts and my terminals aren't reacting any different. The man page is very sparse without any guide on how I'm supposed to actually use it.

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Staff Chief of Joints

I am at the combination goose/factory.

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Lol, gnu.org just blanket blocks my web browser from loading anything with a 403 Frobidden error. 🤷

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Jules

Q: are you a boy or a girl?

A: no, I'm in the control group

#AgenderFeels

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Types cript. 🐸

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TypeScript.😭

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For some reason weird shit only happens when I'm in a rush. 🤪

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My flesh weeps for more sleep yet denies itself its own desires.

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Taught my mother how to do the six-seven motion and gave her instructions to use it next time she's around her friends kids.

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Snake feeding 

My corn snake decided she wanted to have a go at eating my hand again when I was taking her out to feed. I respect the hubris. She got a nice rat to eat once she calmed down enough to pry off of my finger and seemed satisfied with her clean terrarium.

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Love this author's use of switching between second to first person to represent dissasociation.

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DWeb

🎉 The Schedule of DWeb Camp 2026 is out 🎉

We received an unprecedented amount of proposals for this year.

Our incredible track curators and our scheduling team worked hard to accept as many as possible.

➡️ Here is the long-awaited schedule: dwebcamp.org/schedule ⬅️

⚠️ Expect changes: we are still ironing out the details.

#DWeb #DWebCamp #schedule #camp #event #Berlin #talks #camping #proposals #tech #technology #decentralization

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The Witchy Bitches

In today's misadventure with the hospital cops.... i am standing at the metal detector and the cop asks me the name of my dog. I tell him she's working and it's not necessary for him to have that information. And I ask him why he needs it. He informs me he wants to talk to her while he pats her down. FOR REAL! I tell him that he can just use the wand, that he doesn't need to talk to or interact with her and that she is working and will be ignoring him. Also that if he needs to search under the handles of her harness or in her pouches that I will need to be the one to open and or move them because she will not allow strangers to do that. Did he listen to me? OF course he didd 'NOT because he's a COP and I'm just a woman. A disabled woman at that. So he goes in and starts talking to her and trying to touch her and she steps back and gives him a filthy look. Finally he decides that I do actually know what I'm talking about so goes over her with the wand, while keeping his mouth shut and she ignored him like I said she would. *sighs*

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Can't imagine what it's like to be programming without learning what pointers are and how manual memory works first.

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I wish the JavaScript Map class could use buffers as keys instead of needing to convert them to strings first.

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My current cyberdeck setup makes it super easy to work from the library. I just need to figure out a lower power matrix client and how to make the CPU fan less noisy.

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Current Biology

An abstract relational map emerges in the human medial prefrontal cortex with consolidation cell.com/current-biology/fullt

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Episode three million of Mauve forgets it visibly stands out as unusual in a crowd 🤪

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