Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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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.
OMG I really missed the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Way easier to actually do stuff with them now that I've researched how they work a bit more
Been watching early seasons of spongebob lately. Still as goofy as I remember it
Finally set up my GPD for actually playing games. Been in a Sonic the Hedgehog mood lately
If anyone wants to donate etherium to me, I finally set up a wallet here: 0xC29a6b70A7B64D539375FF8608E19c64dc5B457A
At least I had my computer attached to my belt like usual so I did most of the motions of getting it set up.
low key thinking of buying one of those compute pucks that Rokid and XREAL sell just to have something more slim to carry around.
Had a dream I was at a small scale tech trade show and there was a booth with some AR googles I hadn't seen before that looked cool. Sadly I woke up before I could try them on 😭
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you don’t version it, it is disrespectful to the users who spent time learning that UI. time from their only life on earth, to learn your software.
And you’ve just told them, fuck you, we demand more of your time, every /2-3 years, forever. Any time spent learning computers is futile and all gains are temporary
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this is why constant UI churn is bad.
The whole advantage of using computers was supposed to be their ability to automate and speed up our work.
By attrition, most of the ways of doing this have been systematically removed from average users and are the exclusive domain of expert developers braving the hazards of alternative operating systems
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aside from pure CLI stuff, I can't remember the last time I used a computing device where things felt instant, or even just faster than my rate of interaction.
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This might just shake things up
"Switzerland Now Requires All Government Software To Be Open Source"
Not trusting or relying on the Microsofts of the world anymore.
Sturmer believes everyone will benefit from this regulation, as it reduces vendor lock-in for the public sector, allows companies to expand their digital business solutions, and potentially leads to reduced IT costs and improved services for taxpayers.
My cats sound so funny. They're like the pokemon noises in the gameboy games.
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Crowdstrike situation is putting a very firm pressure on another round of removing software agents without mandatory need, especially kernel-mode or that inject DLLs. This is real, I'm in the middle of it. It's a good argument to slim things down where there is overlap.
Hey folks into #ActivityPub and #p2p / #dweb tech. We've got a new #FEP in the works to bridge between the two worlds based on the work we've been doing at @distributed
Come check it out and let us know what you think and if you'd like to implement it yourselves!
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There are 20,000+ Mastodon servers alone. Thousands of WordPress and Pixelfed servers.
The idea that the Fediverse is about connecting 5-6 servers, one for each kind of data posted, is really misleading.
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Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.
https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere
In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.
Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.
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Alright, now we're getting close to usable AR. 🎉
Xreal shipped a sub-$1k package (Ultra + Beam Pro) for light weight, see-through AR glasses with 6dof tracking and flat display mirroring of Android apps. From reviews it sounds like the driver slab suffers from perf and heat issues but it might be a good devkit to prep apps for the more polished models in development.
It's amazing to me that usable and cheap AR glasses could ship next year.
https://youtu.be/HRdK2nmS3OU
Felt in an anime mood. Watching "Uramichi Oniisan" and damn it's real AF.
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As an archivist, let me say clearly:
Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.
It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.
It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.
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I would like to use websites and apps without "AI". Both for not appropriating my data, nor for "helpful" suggestions when I'm writing for example. I'm happy to pay the premium fee for this. Recommendations welcome!
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“Despite 96% of C-suite leaders expressing high expectations that AI will enhance productivity, 77% of employees using AI say these tools have added to their workload, and nearly half (47%) of employees using AI report they do not know how to achieve the expected productivity gains.”
The only real winners of this whole AI productivity snake oil scam are the companies selling subscriptions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Losers: everyone else – and the climate.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
