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
@lumen Oh jeeze yeah, I can imagine the costs are even more unreasonable given the average income in Brazil 😱
Sharing the burden with other seems to be in the spirit of running federated infrastructure too.
@heapwolf *furiously destroys my body and mind to enhance shareholder value* aye aye!
@technobaboo Or maybe "Mime" isn't the right word here?
It's more like a "File" where it has a mime type describing what format it is, and a way to load it's data which might be from a URL or from raw data. E.g. the File API in web browsers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File
@technobaboo Hmm, I'm not sure. Personally, I'd have the mime type contain either the raw buffer for the data, a file URL for the data, or a IPFS/HTTPS URL for the data.
That way you can seamlessly attach either remote, local, or syntesized data to anything that takes a mime type object. 🤷 Not sure what sort of UI you were thinking of for this though.
@technobaboo For IPFS URLs, take the stuff in the PATH_GATEWAY spec, but replace `/ipfs/` with `ipfs://`.
I'm also working on a IPLD URL spec that's along the same lines.
But generally its `ipfs://CID_HERE/path/to/file.txt` and similarly `ipns://PUBLICKEY_OR_DNS_HERE/path/to/file.txt`.
Anyone know of a tool that takes those two column PDFs that papers typically get formatted in and turn them into a one column HTML page?
Or even better, have a way to get the original LaTeX for papers from their ID. :P
@technobaboo @gwil URLs generally don't contain mime types since browsers get them from the Content-Type header in the response (yeah, it kinda sucks). A lot of servers sniff the content and the file ending to guess the mime type. Either way you typically need to read from the resource to know what sort it is. 😅
@todrobbins I tried it in the past, but I didn't have time to actually practice since I always have so much on my plate. :/ Hopefully I'll have more time over my holiday break and then see how it goes from there.
I think it worked okay when I tried it last though. 🤷
I think I just wish there was a path to getting it on mobile, too.
Maybe my new years resolution will be to finally learn how to use Talon for talking to my computer. 🤔
@heapwolf Wake me up when the AI sequences a genome to print to grow a living machine that'll do whatever task is needed. 🤪
Preferably if it's a cool crab thing I can stick right into my spine.
Mauve 👁💜
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I backed the Flipper Zero on Kickstarter and got mine some months ago.
Now, initially, I did some pretty basic things with it - loaded all my remotes into it, tinkered with NFC, opened a Tesla's charge door. You know, the usual. I've even gotten pretty good at Snake on it, because I can.
Then I started seeing TikTok videos and reading the comments on them, and man, this thing is wild. They told me about all the cool shit it can do, so naturally I started experimenting!
To date, I've:
- Overridden drone controls and organized a dozen stolen drones into a bomber wing to harass local wildlife.
- Taken over a Tesla entirely. I didn't keep it. Just drove it around the parking lot like a really expensive remote control car. Then I changed the horn to the theme song from the old Flipper TV show, for science.
- Discovered the human 'off switch.' I didn't realize such a thing existed until I saw a TikTok video that pointed out the app on GitHub. Download it and put it on the Flipper. Run it, point the IR window at the person in question and click! Human off. There is the very minor detail that this is generally referred to as, in TikTok parlance, unaliving them. Don't recommend doing this to people regularly.
- Found the AI function, but then shit got weird. It stole my car. I don't mean I stole a car with it, I mean *it* stole *my* car. I drive stick. How the fuck does something without arms, let alone hands, drive stick? How does it even see!?
- After I got it back, I figured out the right frequency to tap into those mind control chips they put in the COVID vaccine. Problem is the Flipper AI realized what I was doing, and I don't think I'm the one forming the mind controlled army anymore. Send help, before it's too late. I don't think the tinfoil is working anymore...
10/10. Would back again.
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Thinking about the asynchronous power of todays ‘speakers’ in the US - everything from Citizens United to Musk. The First Amendment is not cut out for rampant unregulated business scale. It comes from a point in history that assumed oppression of citizens, inequity and effective dictatorship, can only come from the government . The American belief that commerce will correct course in favor of a better society seems unshakeable despite the vast towering evidence to the contrary.
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*teleports behind you with a p2p storage mesh* nothing personnel, kid
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space That makes sense. I still worry that this places the bulk of the power in the hands of hosting providers and the nerds that actually operate the software rather than people. 😅 E.g. if a hosting provider decides to deplatform all queer people or sex workers, they can for whatever reason. Happens with Youtube and Apple-related things. I guess if it's easier to run the hosting then more groups can participate in that?
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space Interesting. Do you have thoughts on how this could be 10x better than the status quo of running matrix servers on regular cloud hosts? (particularly to users of the service).
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“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.
@cblgh God I wish. 😭😭😭😭 Maybe if I move somewhere a bit more rural than Ottawa where it'd be more worth the effort vs just dealing with the pain of the duopoly. 🤔
Realistically, after I get another grant or two with the Wakoma folks to get p2p stuff working on mesh networks I should be able to reproduce that in local contexts.
@cblgh 👀 Having a mesh would be swell actually. I think there was legislation passed recently that made it easier to connect to the internet backbone in Canada.
In general Canadian ISPs are a duoploy and actively engage in anti-competitive legislation to make internet shit for everyone here. 😅
@jauntywunderkind420@cybre.space Yeah, TBH for my self hosting needs I can probably get away with just a TB HDD, like 8 GB RAM and whatever mid tier CPU. I kinda started exploring with this Synology NAS and it's been nice enough that I've been wanting to expand my setup. :o
Though again I'd rather just not need to think about servers in the first place.
@cblgh :O Thanks for the tip. I was initially looking at server racks and Intel NUC style devices. I think I'd still need to figure out a custom internet connection which'd give decent outbound. Mine start puking when I do anything more than a megabit or so.
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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
