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
Buhh, I wanna just work on little p2p web apps but instead I gotta work to pay rent.
Hopefully some of the funding strings I've been tugging at will finally give.
Been thinking a music player and an RSS reader would be a major improvement to my life.
@szbalint I always thought folks complained about paywalls because they don't have spare income for stuff and felt baited by links that don't warn them ahead of time.
Defs agree good work should get paid for.
I wish capitalism wasn't so soul crushing.
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Capitalism has convinced you RSS is antiquated. The real reason it's fading is because it doesn't have ads and tracking. You going to tell me the news article is truly better on a browser with ads than on a little program you can open any time, on or offline?
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People who are pro-capitalism aren't swayed by the suffering of others. So how about a big thread on a bunch of "1st world" ways capitalism has fucked you!
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Between its web services, its growing presence inside and outside of homes with always-on microphones and cameras and systems of monitoring employees in vehicles and in distribution centers alike, Amazon is not a commerce company. Amazon is a surveillance company. We need to understand exactly what beast is we are feeding. https://mas.to/@obeto/109937158795614534
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“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
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We're getting quite a few people who thought the project was dead for some reason... Remember that you should follow our blog (and this account) for updates.
We released the first open-source accelerated GPU drivers for Apple Silicon just two months ago:
https://asahilinux.org/2022/12/gpu-drivers-now-in-asahi-linux/
That's the world's first open source driver for Apple GPUs, and also the world's first Linux GPU driver written in Rust, but for some reason it didn't get almost any media attention...
But then we sent out some device trees for Linux 6.2 and that did?
We don't get it...
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@ben I dunno, I don't much like how the Internet I helped build turned out, so I'm open to investigating the hypothesis that the problem was at least partly in the financial assumptions.
Turns out that Fediverse stuff is pretty cheap to run. So why not run it on the cheap with co-ops and suchlike, without key players being in a position where success is 1000X ROI and anything else is failure?
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The strong isolation of QubesOS is supposedly designed to stop even your worst enemy from sabotaging your system's integrity. Today I just found out who's my worst enemy - myself...
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Also, ChatGPT can generate valid Windows 95 keys, and some suspiciously good-looking Windows XP keys. Is it piracy if a text model created them and told you it's okay to use those? 🤔
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David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."
Sometimes I have low-energy days and get the urge to pivot my career into another direction.
A bit less on my plate could be good for me, but my ambition is hard to keep in check.
I wish I could get to a point where I'd have a stable enough income on 20h/week so I can spend more time on my own projects.
@cwebber@octodon.social Oh! Was this a subtoot of this new flatpak app store thing? https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/blob/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md
@WildEnte Interesting. I already have a custom mail server along with like 4 work-related external accounts.
Do you know if their email client works as a web app outside of Vivaldi? I was hoping to have a similar use case to GMail, but for all my email accounts and self hosted.
@cblgh Interesting, ty! Is this a sort of Electron app?
I was hoping for something I could run on a server so that I didn't need to worry about native apps as much. 🤔
@kubikpixel If I'm understanding correctly, this is a mail server? I was hoping for a web frontend that would talk to my existing email servers. Do you know if they have some more concrete docs of what it's supposed to do? Not very obvious from their docs page.
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If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
@cwebber@octodon.social Does guix make it easy to distribute to Mac/Windows in addition to different flavors of Linux by any chance?
@cwebber@octodon.social I feel like there's a lot of downsides to end users by having this restriction which would reduce adoption outside of tech people that care about this stuff very strongly.
In my experience the average person want's to do as little as possible to get something running. It's why app stores and websites are so popular IMO.
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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
