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
Excited for the goat simulator direct today. Hope it's a new DLC or something.
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how indexes make your queries fast
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/indexes/
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read Javi's post from last month about Chromium's Ed25519 implementation to learn about the challenges in getting the last bits over the finish line.
nothing is easy when you want to change the web.
blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2...
Can I use Secure Curves in the...
The cure for nihilism is some sunshine and fresh air apparently 
The mind truly is a plaything of the body
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we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it one time.
why is the cloud good
The MMORPG DLC for Goat Simulator is probably my fave DLC ever. It hit all the right nostalgia buttons the first time I played it.
Nihilism
How do I skip nihilism and jump right to absurdism? Is there a book or something to cure the doom?
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@matrix has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr.
We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads.
It's the classic FOSS funding problem: use and adoption are at an all-time high, wealthy companies and countries use it, and secure decentralized comms have never been more important. And yet we can't pay our bills.
YOU have a role to play in shaping what comes next: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/
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Got the Goat Simulator remaster. I love this series so much 
@Filene seems to just be a front end for whisper. It seems to be the main thing folks are using but IMO it's still pretty heavy 
Picovoice would be so great if they didn't have all these restrictions for personal use. Needing internet and tiny amounts of "minutes per month" (for locally processed audio mind you) is unfortunate.
Gotta mute all references to Medium.com on here. Few things fill me with as much rage as articles that bait and switch to "You need to make an account and use an app to read this". Writers that use medium for publishing: Fuck you, but only a little.
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https://ordinary.cafe/@technobaboo/114235868752970789 "... for the record, some formats like GLTF can do this already, it's just JSON after all"
@fleeky IMO the diffing is a key function. You can't really see diffs over large binary files, can you?
What @technobaboo said about diffing GLTF seemed reasonable though.
Low key love identifying race conditions in decentralized systems
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I increasingly think that what we culturally conceptualize as being a programmer is a lot less about knowing or using a programming language and a lot more about knowing how to use the whole computer instead of just the parts that have been nicely packaged for you by the corpos or volunteers
@ireneista Oh? Do you have a writeup somewhere? Which information medium are you targeting? Text? Would love to learn more.
I think a lot of version control energy is being put into real time collaboration via stuff like automerge which IMO is great but makes the history less useful for human understanding.
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we've seen things you people wouldn't believe — shell scripts piping `openssl smime` through an HTTP tunnel. push-mode kerberos propagation across 7 zones worth of replicas. `iptables` rules that, over 24 hours, dropped 96 gigabytes of DNS traffic. all these moments will be lost, like tweets in rain
Source code version control is actually such an amazing tool. I wish other industries had similar uses. Like, I'd love to be able to do the equivalent of git blame for 3D objects or vector graphics and see what else changed for that version and trace the "why" for the change.
I'm getting more acquainted with this codebase and seeing where a particular line got added in the history can make such a difference.
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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
