Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

So much has happened in my lawsuits against Apple over the last five months!

An incredible amount of new information came to light about my Apple office at the TRW #Superfund site & Apple's rogue secret silicon fab plant outside my living room, & how Apple retaliated against me about both, while Apple knew it was responsible for sickening & disabling me in 2020.

#Apple is evil, yo.

If you want to see the new bigger picture, I updated my mega-timeline:
https://gjovik.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Gjovik-v-Apple-FOIA-Timeline-V24.pdf

I’m sure an apple headset will be very impressive, cost 6k, and if you try to make something for it they’ll deprecate the dev stack and replace it with something new with no backwards compatibility the day before you release. Also it will explode after three years.

The most convincing evidence for the overall drop of quality on the internet isn't even remotely the content itself.
It's the functionality of the websites, and their interface in particular. "2021-12-15 16:12 UTC" became "1 year ago". Search by date became as coarse as "This week/This month/This year", which by themselves come with 50% error margins. Search by duration: "Short", "Medium", "Long". Search pictures by size: "Small", "Medium, "Large". Numbers are hard. Windows went from being a quagmire of preciseness to reinventing a tablet interface every 4 years, with Gnome trailing behind and users tied up in a line following. With such poor functionality, is it any wonder everything is becoming an uphill struggle.
With search engines becoming more and more useless, no surprises that it's easier to generate something than look for anything.

interesting fact: it has never been easier to access and support avant-garde and experimental art of all kinds from around the world

i want a never-online video game. i want a game that folds its arms and impatiently taps its toes until i get off the fucking internet before playing it.

i think more games should stutter a bit sometimes. i like to know that the computer is thinking really hard about the game

Computers should be simple, because the simpler the computer is, the easier it is to program, and the easier it is to program, more people can program it.

Being able to program your own computer is like a superpower. Not only can you make the computer do what *you* want and need it to do, but you also sever the dependencies which constrain what is possible and bind you to external systems and their unchecked complexity.

I know people say they don’t want to write their own software, but I try to ask why. Often the reasons have less to do with writing software and more to do with a tech industry that wants to keep selling them things.

But if you go back and look closely at the humble 8-bit micros of the late 70’s and early 80’s you’ll see a wide range of machines that shipped with everything you needed to program them, and as a result millions of people learned how and wrote the most diverse range of applications ever known. Perhaps even more miraculous, most of them were compatible with different computers and shareable via any conceivable communications medium (print, tape, vinyl, radio, etc.)

It’s hard to concisely explain how powerful this is. I’ll probably write a lot more about this when I’m out west.