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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It's true that experimenting with this on your own isn't free, but it's also not out of reach as long as you have a general purpose computer (like, not an Android or iOS phone).
If you can't afford another computer, you can spin up a free, small Linux VM on your own laptop or desktop and experiment that way.
If you can afford a two hundred dollar expenditure and a few dollars a month of electricity, you can get a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny or a Dell Optiplex Micro or two and hook them up to your home network. These are typically sold in lots from large corporate deployments, where they are used as small, efficient desktops for thousands of employees until they no longer quite work. They are then sold individually for about a hundred dollars each on eBay. I run my home network on two of these, plus some other nonsense you don't really need.
Because of exactly what we're talking about here, these acquisitions are modular; you can get one box, plug it in, and experiment until you can afford another, then plug that one into the same network and see how they interact.
Ultimately, it's probably a cheaper hobby than, say, Magic: the Gathering.
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It's so many of our favorite people all in one podcast!
Listen to @mauve, Fauno, and Jacky Zhao as they discuss decentralized publishing on the latest episode of DWeb Decoded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqPomT1Teo #dweb
Just saw the new ninja turtles movie in "4dx". The moving chairs gave me shaken baby syndrome and the smellovision reminded me of sewage.
10/10 movie, loved those turtle boys. 🥰
@vampiress My money is on "quantum somethings"
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i want usb ports to come with a lil eject motor like CD drives, so when you eject a drive it gets physically booted out of your PC
~bx
@hank Probably not. My mental capacity is barely enough to get by as is :P
Ahhhhh. Wish I could split into four people to cover all the stuff I want to do. 😭 So much stuff so little energy/time in a day
@quinn@octodon.social Eee! I would love to see pics of the final result if that's an option 😍
@quinn@octodon.social want! I'm gonna ve moving soon so maybe I'll have space for something like this too. Do they come in purple? :P
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Hi all! My first "neuro-focused" post 🧠 has to be these beautiful #PlaceCells that I recorded in a #NeuroRat foraging for cocops in a rectangle. #Hippocampus
#NeuroForNewbies ⏬(trying this out)
What are "place cells"? They are a category of neurons, first discovered in the brain of rats, that activate only in specific locations in a given environment. Each place cell fires at a different location, together forming a sort of map (#CognitiveMap) of all the locations that we know.
plot legend is described in the alt-text
(Edit: added hippocampus tag)
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No more of this ‘dot’ nonsense for me.
From now on it’s ‘period com.’
Gonna make a melee build in Fallout 4 with a character that looks like santa clause. Gonna see how much I can RP as a grizzled saint nick for this round
@92e3aac668edb25319edd1d87cadef0b189557fdd13b123d82a19d67fd211909@mostr.pub Right! Honestly I'm down to pay extra to just not have to deal with that shit. It's also frankly strange that it's required on consoles where I already need to give some corpo my personal information just to buy the game. Like, just use my playstation account. 🙃
Angry about corpo games
Fuck bethesda for making you make an account to play a singleplayer game. Paid 90 bucks for this shit and now I need to give them extra personal information to play it. I hate what game studios have come to and I hate tech's obsession with cloud shit and user tracking.
@hhardy01 facebook replaced meeting people in person and chatting about what they've been into lately
angry about gmail
@tychi Neat. :o Is there a FOSS or self hosted alternative to fastmail?
angry about gmail
Also now I'm seeing more sites that are like "Oh you need to use Chrome to access this" which I thought the web had gotten over for a while now.
Especially annoying when I'm loading via a chromium browser that certainly has whatever Google-pushed feature they want to use anyway.
Did people really give up on progressive enhancement and cross browser interop?
@yosh I think the biggest thing I miss is the network tab and the sources tab.
I get you can _kinda_ get it with some cli debuggers and vscode integration, but nothing I've used feels quite the same.
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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
