Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
Might finally get a robot vaccume to keep the cat hair in check since there's this project to add custom firmware to keep them off the sketchy cloud features. https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots/
@nasser I friggen love Igorr. They're so creative. I listen to Viande on the reg to get in the right headspace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4lrS9bPbp0
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Why you should stop donating to wikipedia.
TLDR; They are loaded with cash. They took your donations and still sold wikipedia to AI companies. They are sacking workers who try to unionise. They fired the people who most know how wikipedia actually works.
"The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. Wikimedia Enterprise, the team that provides high speed, high volume API access to AI labs, just turned profitable on $8.3 million in revenue, a 148% jump from the prior year... The point is the Foundation is rich. Seventeen-plus months of operating runway in the bank. Revenue diversifying, not shrinking. They can afford six engineers. Whatever this fight is about, it is not about money."
As if wikipedia selling the work of volunteers to AI companies was not enough, now they are coming for the workers.
"In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications."
If you have a wikipedia account you can sign the solidarity petition here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity#Signatures
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
For real I should set up affiliate links for my modular cyberdeck setup somewhere :P
prime napping in the shade on a sunny fay hours and I'm in the dark fixing bugs in how we authenticate encrypted streams throughout the codebase 😝
@pixelate @TheQuinbox Ha ha, edbrowse is way more fancy than my setup.
I just have a custom electron based browser with some extensions in it for privacy protection.
Really not sure what triggers cloudflare to infinitely loop their captcha checking thing on it since it should be equivalent to chromium. 🤷
Did you know science can now castrate "farm animals" using mrna injections instead of invasive surgery?
What I really want right now is a search engine that ignores sites that are hidden behind cloudflare since their captcha never allows my weird web browser setups through.
Lmao this end to end test for connecting three peers together was taking me hours to debug yesterday and now it's just passing every time. 🙃 That's on network conditions.
Saskachewan is burning up and there's a bunch of little ones around Ontario/Quebec?
It's that time of the year when we play "Is it just a foggy day or is there a huge forest fire somewhere"
@suricrasia May it extend to the heavens a la "BLAME!".
@suricrasia The real pro strat is to reduce the number of extant human cities.
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It's a screeching and writhing sort of day
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@esoteric_programmer @TheQuinbox No git repo yet, I'm just writing notes on how I'd like to interact with the system and figuring out how to get wayland to run without a physical monitor. I'm down to collaborate though! What's your new screen reader called? Is this that new Rust one that's been bouncing around?
@TheQuinbox Yeah of course! The tl;dr is the Twiddler 4 keyboard and a Khadas Edge 2 glued to a random USB-C powerbank. Orca for screen reader for now but I'm gonna slap together something else. Mostly geares towards jumping around the accessibility tree with fuzzy search. Maybe also speaking live regions in multiple voices to get more data through?
Should I use Minecraft as my window manager or what? 🙈🙈🙈
@TheQuinbox I'm sighted but I've been working on making a portable audio based desktop environment for these exact same reasons. I use a one handed keyboard and bluetooth headphones with a single board computer hooked to a portable battery bank. Sadly I found linux screen readers have been too slow to use so I'm designing my own. IMO screen reader first setups could be better than dedicated linux phones if you focus on keyboard access and ignore the rendering entirely.
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
