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
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you never really realize how many charging-only USB cables you have until you try to program a fucking arduino
Got a salary review thing at work this month. Documenting all my responsibilities and weekly/monthly routine. Jeeze. I have a lot of hats. I remember back when I was an office drone and just had to juggle timelines and two three devs with their own features at a time. At least stuff is more stable than the 4 years of solo dev I was doing before.
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@mauve is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about lots of subjects:
* distributed.press and our social.distributed.press AP implementation
* sutty.nl : a static site generator CMS
* their distributed press integration
* peer to peer activitypub loading and our FEP for it
Join us in March? https://fediforum.org
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Quick new post about making the headings of HTML tables "sticky":
"Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky"
https://btxx.org/posts/Please_Make_Your_Table_Headings_Sticky/
Survived six meetings and 8 context switches and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.
One of the neat innovations of the #DistributedPress #SocialInbox is that instead of having a large central instance database everyone pulls from for their clients, each user has a personal database of just the things they got sent. From there they can pull data from people they follow and replies using the ActivityPub client-server API. This means that the data you see has a higher social context to who you interact with rather than a grab bag of whatever folks throw onto the global timeline.
Maybe the real ActivityPub compliance suite is the friends we made along the way.
evil thoughts re: spam
One cool thing is that you don't need to set up a mastodon instance in order to run a spam campaign. If anyone wants to give me a million bucks I could whip up a tool that'd require fedi as a whole to go allowlist.
Context switching so fast it blurs into a single context.
@akhileshthite This is so slick! I love it.
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Own your identity, own your data!
DScan v4.0 leverages Web3Storage's w3up-client, incorporating #DIDs and #UCAN to create a robust framework for decentralized authentication and authorization.
DScan is the fastest way to store and share data over #IPFS directly from browsers.
💻 Chrome web store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dscan-own-your-identity-o/idpfgkgogjjgklefnkjdpghkifbjenap
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Make no mistake, the massive layoffs are intentional SHORT TERM sabotage by business decision makers with the goal of LONG TERM benefits for them.
They're trying to drive down the costs of labor. Specifically, they're firing everyone so that we'll accept lower wages upon rehire.
In #infosec, this will backfire on them.
By firing everyone, the level of security technical debt will increase that they'll have to hire everyone AND THEN SOME back at even higher rates.
So. Neat. Fucking great.
In the mean time, research how to create unions. Start doing so. Tech folks and infosec are not used to needing collective bargaining. You need it now.
Learn about the concepts of Economic Leverage and how it works as an individual contributor and when that fails how Collective Leverage works. The whole "if you fire that one person, we all quit" sort of thing works.
You all hack systems every day. You all study Social Engineering and combat it every day.
Hack the labor market. Socially engineer our mutual protection.
Unsure how to prioritize management and strategy decisions when most of my time is spent writing code and abswering emails 💀
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I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation
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にゃん 
every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private
because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private
@fleeky I don't know the folklore but probably. Have you played Disco Elysium? Kinda like all the personalities talking to each other and the user. Maybe each gets "You only respond if you think this is relevant to you" in their system prompt and have an order for processing.
Thinking about how to add memory to an #LLM
Might be good to have two models running in tandem. One is trained to use a memory API. The other is just the personality. Before the personality gets data, memory decides if it wants to do some RAG queries. Then the result is fed to personality to respond with without it needing to understand memory. Then memory asks itself if it needs to remember any of personality's outputs.
Neat article my coworker found about some of the limitations of LLMs and so called #GenAI (generative AI?).
https://www.aspendigital.org/report/navigating-uncharted-waters/
@Hyolobrika Ooo. If you remember the names I'd love yo learn about them. :o
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What Apple is going to do to PWAs in less than two weeks in the EU is dastardly.
Their goal is to remove the only versions of Push, Fullscreen, Homescreen Icons, and Badging that didn't require paying them to be in the App Store *and make sure no other browser can have them either*.
They tried to sneak it under the noise of the alt-store drama, in a clearly premeditated fashion.
It's no exaggeration to say they've gone to war with the web & we don't owe the benefit of the doubt ever again.
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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
