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
angry about gmail
@tychi Neat. :o Is there a FOSS or self hosted alternative to fastmail?
angry about gmail
Also now I'm seeing more sites that are like "Oh you need to use Chrome to access this" which I thought the web had gotten over for a while now.
Especially annoying when I'm loading via a chromium browser that certainly has whatever Google-pushed feature they want to use anyway.
Did people really give up on progressive enhancement and cross browser interop?
@yosh I think the biggest thing I miss is the network tab and the sources tab.
I get you can _kinda_ get it with some cli debuggers and vscode integration, but nothing I've used feels quite the same.
angry about gmail
Have I mentioned that I hate gmail? Their oauth login thing makes logging in with alternative clients a huge pain in the ass, and it's regular login requires a bunch of hoops to jump through and even then it barely works.
Really tired of this shit and that so many orgs require using it for "work email".
The calendar is also a pain.
People capitulating to megacorps ruining open protocols fills me with despair and is a recurring paint point.
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Funny how people always go with the classic,
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide."
over a far more sensible:
"If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me."
@ThunderHoneySnow Yeah thankfully it seemed to just be the street itself and I don't know of any houses that got flooded. Last year our basement didn't do so well however :P
@ThunderHoneySnow OMG my street was totally flooded until one of the neighbors cleared a drain grate. Cars were up to their hubcaps in the stuff.
Bluh, brain is super poopy today but I have so much to do. 😭 Excited to get some stuff off my plateand to build up a team to delegate some other stuff down the line.
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Just saw that #Etsy has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent #artist myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building #magpiemarket - a #federated Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps #artists rather than uses them. Please #boost this to help us spread the word.
I think I could really enjoy renting a cabin for a few days and going offline. 😭
Maybe once I get some last urgent TODOs done.
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Cory Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
@tty Oh! I should also say that I supplement the speech with my ps4 or steamdeck controller mapping. I have a mouse/copy paste/undo redo and some other text editing things on there and it helps a lot so I don't need to navigate with my voice for example.
still way less painful on my hands than a miuse+keyboard too
@tty Nice, I've been trying to keep what I say and what I output to be as close together as possible. So I've been using "dot" to mean "." with no whitespace and "period" to have a space after it.
I wanna be able to say "mode camel window dot open open bracket location dot href close bracket" to type "window.close(location.href)".
@tty another big thing on my to do list is adding an emoji mode since I use those constantly
@tty oh em gee yeah, that one is honestly the most annoying one for me. it also keeps mistaking it as "come on" and I can't realistically alias that one since I use it legitimately on the regular 😭
@tty yes sadly my hand pain has been kind of unbearable lately. also it's easier to use voice when I'm on the go with my steam deck.
I'm building off of nerd dictation so there's some limitations. one thing I've been putting off is adding the nato phonetic alphabet so I can type individual characters and the other was toggling snake / screaming snake / camel case.
https://github.com/RangerMauve/mauve-dictation/blob/default/nerd-dictation.py
@tty i would love to see the source once it's available :o
Something I've been working towards too
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Alt text isn't just helpful for the sight-impaired. By reading alt text I can identify what the OP is calling attention to in the pic, helping me get the joke or social commentary that would otherwise be illegible to me. (Without this I'm like, I see a thousand details and I don't know which one matters to you.) #ActuallyAutistic
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So the first part of things is just a big, public peertube instance.
I have the know how, the capacity, the ability. The trick is that it's still difficult and expensive to host peertube for other people.
So I'm going to charge of it. Not much, but enough. We charge folks for their storage quota.
$12/year for 10GB of storage. $50/year for 50GB of storage. Other packages at higher rates.
That's $1/month for 10GB, or ~$4/month for 50GB. We'll charge by the year to reduce transaction fees.
Cheap, but not free. That reduces a lot of our burdens around hosting, while keeping the thing accessible. It makes us enough money to give accounts away when people can't afford hosting, etc.
It let's us really do Community media.
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- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
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- @RangerMauve
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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
