Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.

You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.

It's really insulting.

As expected, the Qualcomm enshittification of @arduino has begun. Expressif's ESP32 stuff has already been a better platform for some time... I guess I'll have to learn the ESP-IDF ecosystem now instead of the Arduino IDE.

Valve’s announcements last week about their upcoming gaming devices were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in the Frame, as it has been in the Deck. From translation layers to frame rates and preventing rendering glitches, we’ve been helping Valve push gaming forward. https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

@kalisz79

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Campaign idea: Just Send The Prompt

To participate, tell everyone who will listen that if they want to use "ai" to email or Slack or whatever a message to you, they should "Just Send The Prompt".

The "ai" doesn't add anything; everything that matters has to be in the prompt, so please Just Send me that.

Add it to your email signature, "think of the environment before slopping this email; Just Send The Prompt".

"I judge you for using Copilot; please Just Send The Prompt"

hyper:// chatting with @mauve in @peersky

Its International Men's Day!

So, like, my bros, you know that medical thing you're ignoring and have been ignoring for several months. Yeah, both of them.

Part of the reason we live shorter and have worse mental health is because we ignore stuff. So, like, if you have access to healthcare, today is your day to to start to sort this out.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨