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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- The fact we have a flagship instance and that mastodon.social didn’t close signups ages ago is a huge part of the problem. They could have set a social precedent (large instances are a no-no) – they didn’t.
- When Threads federates, it will become the flagship instance.
- Eugen is basically handing the crown to Mark.
- The fact there is a crown to start with is a shortcoming of the federated model with instances that can scale indefinitely. (How else could things be done? See #SmallWeb)
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@teal Interesting that most of these are cross platform, too. They each have their own APIs and approaches to scripting right?
I think the main linux app I use is bash (or zsh) 😎👉👉
@teal Could you give some examples of scriptable linux apps you use? Most of the ones in my daily use don't have stuff like that.
Big agree on mobile lacking devtools. I think only Kiwi Browser on Android has usable ish devtools and extensions. I was hoping to learn from their code to add devtools to my browser too.
I wish web devs were a bit more cautious with memory usage for their apps and that browsers were a bit less greedy with resource usage.
My favorite part of the web is that it makes things hackable. Stuff like userscripts or even being able to muck around in devtools makes it so much more empowering than native apps that give you a "take it or leave it" approach to apps.
Mobile apps make me so mad because they give me no control over my device even with the prospect of "app permissions".
Excited for the holidays so that I can get work done without being interrupted by meetings 🥰
okay okay. Databases. >:)
Looks like I'm finally starting to get out of the covid hole. Gotta figure out my current priority queue to cagch up on all the stuff I missed while I was under. Very frustrated to have lost so much time but hopefully veing agressive on letting my physical form do it's thing and redt will havr avoided some of the risk of long term side effects.
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Among the schemes discussed to move the Zuckerverse - sorry, Fediverse - forward:
- Monetization of fediverse interactions: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-a/
- Crypto functionality: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/3-d/
- Location tracking: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-c/
- Individual reputation scoring: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/1-d/
- Contact book ingestion: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/2-d/
- For-profit revenue models: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/5-c/
- Facebook feature incorporation: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/4-h/
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FediForum ...and no more
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Wondering if all this fiddling with ZFS and big box of hard drives is worth it, went to compare it to AWS elastic file storage and whelp...
I've downloaded 100TB (more, but 100 is round number) of data so far. To store that in EFS near me, that would cost $0.33/GB/month to store, $0.03/GB to read, and $0.07/GB to write. Downloading the data does a 100% write (obvi) and read (checksumming). So merely to get the data it would cost $10,000, and to park it for ONE MONTH would cost $33k.
That's more than the whole NAS for ONE MONTH. and the NAS has 500TB. Even with 25% storage efficiency from mirroring and backups, we could afford to buy a new NAS every month instead of using AWS. That's a hell of a scam.
The pharmacy decided they don't want to take my call for 35 mins so now I'm stuck in the pbyskcal waiting room instead of resting in bed.
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Custom protocol support has landed and will be in the next release.
This means when your app is installed, links like this in your browser, on your command line, or anywhere else on your computer will load the app and parse the url.
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If you ever wondered what happened to that TextBlade kickstarter project, the answer is "they succeeded in building what they set out to build, and then a patent troll cut them off from being able to ship anything, ran them out of funding runway, and now they have several shipping pallets worth of working hardware stored somewhere in California, a stack of legal bills and no way to ship the finished, working product they've built."
Looks like I might qualify for paxlovid which is fortunate.
@nix ty 😭 Fonna take it easy and noy push my body in general. So far it's progressing less fast than I expected.
Welp. Got covid from the conf despite wearing a mask 😭😭😭😭
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Can people just skip straight to publishing their stuff in some reasonable form where it already feels like Reader Mode (or unclutter.it)? That way there's no need to download all the auxiliary junk that gets stripped out/cleaned up in the first place... (and no need to run the extension)
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I'm a bit disappointed that all the discourse in the #gemini hashtag is about Google's newest large language model and not the powerful, minimalist hypertext protocol.
@cblgh I guess it's about internet "splintering" due to censorship and wars? https://splintercon.net/
I was expecting more of a mesh network focus but it's a lot more social focused.
BTW! i'm currently at #Spintercon in #Montreal. I'm the person with the purpleish hair and mask! Feel free to chat me up if you see me 🥳
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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
