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
It makes me sad that a lot of families can't afford to be single income. I have a lot of friends that ended up having trauma stemming from the fact their parent's were too drained by work to be able to spend time raising them. Full time work in general is something I wish was abolished.
@melroy @lutindiscret @agregore would you be interested in cross linking between our documentation and linking to sites that work on both?
Agregore also supports IPFS and markdown :)
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Prime day is a great time to remember that alternatives to most of Amazon's services not only exist, but in cases like audiobooks are actively superior to their offering!
E.g. libro.fm, where you get to both own your audiobooks and support local book shops. Seems better than giving Bezos more cash
@fabrice Yeah, heisenbridge does not seem to. I don't want another app just for irc when I already have my matrix bridges for it :P
@sarahjamielewis Are there plans to add a regular cert eventually? My client does not permit self signed certs 😿
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Advertising isn't inevitable, it's a thing that was invented, it became the dominant funding model on the web because it appears to have no cost to the user and it doesn't appear to interfere with the free and open access principles of the early web.
It actually has significant cost to users, we pay in time, privacy, experience, and security.
It's eroded the free and open web, spawned walled gardens whose only goal is to capture more of the user's time.
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Companies: oh noes hackers broke in and stole your old data 😢
Me: and as usual I can do nothing except wait and see what cyberpunk crimes they or their buyers attempt, right?
Companies: right! 🤗
Me: how about you stop hoarding customer data to sell?
Companies: haha wtf no 🙃
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i was this kid, in beirut, using cracked and pirated software to learn how to program. stuff that was never released in the middle east or stuff that wouldnt make sense to buy for a 10 year old. and guess what? microsoft didnt go out of business. and i have a career in media art and software engineering despite being from the armpit of the world. win win. intellectual property is fake, steal from corporations, kill the cop in your mind.
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How ‘bout instead of machines that steal from artists to “democratize creativity” we have machines that steal from billionaires to democratize money
@canteen @atax1a Ha ha that's*exactly* what I do :P
Some STT folks invent their own phonetic alphabet to make it faster / more reliable but I wanted something more reusable in other contexts.
I've been considering adding a "mode swith" to disable the phonetic alphabet so I can use its words directly.
source code for my setup if you're curious: https://github.com/RangerMauve/mauve-dictation
Speaking of RAM I might end up upgrading to the higher spec GPD WIN 4 model since I keep running out. I have like 3 GB allocated to video ram right now and VS Code eats through half of the remainder just idling in a rust project. God forbid I open a zoom call then my Element client (which easily reaches 3GB) client gets killed by the system 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.
@aynish Yeah niri has been great. I just stooped thinking about layouts entirely and scroll left and right. I was kinda put off by tiling managers before because I didn't want to have to think about layouts so much and liked the chaos of having dozens on windows stacked on top of each other.
It's not for the faint of heart tho! You need to set up the xdg desktop portal and stufd yourself. They have guides though
My main win from using wayland natively is that my speech to text with `ydotool` now gets affected by keyboard modifyers. If I want to quit an application I hit my left bumper (mapped to ctrl) on my controller and say `quebec`. If I want to open my terminal I hit R4 and say "tango". Toggling my STT is R4+A (return jkey).
With this I am more effective with stt+controller than my mini bt keyboard. 🥳
Eventually I want to get a screen reader involved to more effectively navigate content.
@il_Lost_ Kinda related though, this group is making a bunch of useful primitives for cyberspace. https://v-sekai.org/
@stardustxr is doing great things for making your baseline OS desktop environment 3d-friendly.
This was a really promising project but it kinda crashed chasing crypto and ai hype. Their baseline for representing virtual projects and social features is super cool though. https://github.com/webaverse
I have some old writings here I need to update: https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/cyberspace-components
@il_Lost_ When I say cyberspace I mean the abstract concept associated with cyberpunk books like Neuromancer, not a specific app or protocol. 😅
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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
