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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tech industry commentary
tech companies: we're firing everyone!!!!
society: <new large scale tech disaster every 4-6 weeks>
also tech companies, apparently: we can't fill any of these jobs??
people applying to tech jobs: i get about 1 interview per 4000 applications, the last one asked if i had ever programmed in 'windex' and hung up when i said that's a cleaning product
What's your fave number? I think I'm really into 256 lately. I set that as a default page size on a healthcare UI thing and people got super confused as to why it'd be such a specific number 🤪
@hank I think it's p much just you and a couple Hypha adjacent folks I see on here :o
My favorite part of fedi is that most folks I interact with IRL don't use it and would never come across my posts 🥰
See the approach is to target the repair drones first so that the enemy becomes killable. then you target the summoners to limit how fast the reinforcements get there, then you fight the big bad and scavange ammo/heals from the regular drones as you run around dodging lasers. It helps when you avoid fighting in the middle of a firestorm tho 😅
I am currwntly picking fights with the big bad aliens to work through some emotions 😈 Investing in shields paid off.
Excited by the prospect of making some more local-first tech for communities that stand to gain the most harmony with the approach. Data should live with us like ideas and cultural norms instead of ivory towers that decide to give us glimpses on their rent seeking terms.
34 hours in no mans sky. What have I been doing? Who knows 🤷
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love how companies eventually just all give up making anything and just go to rent seeking
@errantscience That's why I don't buy physical copies until I read them digitally :P
Love how these need to take totally different interpretations for the symbol `.`
`foo=.`
`foo=bar.`
`foo=var.baz`
I wish programming languages just settled on S-expressions and called it a day. Code analysis and parser writing can be such a PITA :P
God I hate MacOS's security features. I just want to run a friggen binary for some quick tests. needing to go through code signing or explaining way too many steps of settings tweaking is so exhausting. I wish I didn't have to deal with mac users so often for work.
@vr-t8x15 TBH I have invested thousands more hours in code compared to chess so it's not unexpected :P
Jeeze I really suck at chess.
@freakazoid @onepict Yeah sadly fine tuning is the only type I have had acces to 🥲
@onepict @freakazoid Access to training data is such a game changer. Especially in small LLMs it means I can tune my prompts and the way U use the llm to stuff that it's already encountered. Especially handy for stuff like tool calling where the names of functions are important
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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
