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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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.
From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.
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@brandon Yeah! Also a lot of DBs already have fancy access control features in place which could be used. I think couch db was made for the "access the db directly" use case but I think it ended up not being as fine grained as I'd like, especially for sparse replication use cases.
Really not a fan of needing servers for APIs. Lately I find it especially annoying when ActivityPub impls have CORS.
oh wow I had a great long weekend disconnecting from cyberspace. I'm excited to take this energy and write some code this week 😈💜
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From now on instead of a phone, I just have a raspberry pi strapped to my belt buckle with a giant battery pack in my backpack and a keyboard on my arm
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Just read an article about how Apple is going to incorporate openAI into the next iOS and it made me realize I need to maybe get a pine phone
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I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:
If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.
I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.
No. Let me disable it.
I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.
I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.
It's not that hard.
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SaaS kinda feels like extortion sometimes. Bht I guess that's the core of capitalism?
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it
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@makeworld a few things tbh.
1. Thinking about mobile first. A lot of protocols end up focusing on desktop to server or desktop to desktop and don't account for stuff like NAT or intermittant uptimes. There's also the fact that storage modules take mobile storage location needs out of the box. Socket supply's packet routing is a bit better for networking and I think the holepunch dht is better for handling churn.
@light it's a new implementation from what I understand. I'm defs gonna set up an instance once it's out.
@makeworld One thing it's kinda lacking is in blob storage and packet forwarding use cases but I think those can be brought in as stuff running over the kv store and tunnels. We're gonna be experimenting with using iroh over the wire for blobs and documents and using tunnels for connecting and kv for group discovery
3. Key value stores are important for stuff like introducing peers or keeping small bits of shared state. It's less versatile thsn holochain or freenet but it's just enough to get the job done. Other dhts like mainline or hyperswarm don't have shared mutable state which can be annoying
2. Taking ip privacy more seriously while trying to keep speed and decentralization up. A lot of p2p protocols just give up rigjt away and mixnets lack p2p primitives or aren't as fast. For privacy perserving or censorship use cases this is crucial.
@makeworld a few things tbh.
1. Thinking about mobile first. A lot of protocols end up focusing on desktop to server or desktop to desktop and don't account for stuff like NAT or intermittant uptimes. There's also the fact that storage modules take mobile storage location needs out of the box. Socket supply's packet routing is a bit better for networking and I think the holepunch dht is better for handling churn.
@makeworld Yeah I wish the Synology Download Station could let me schedule bandwidth limits. I'm usually not using much internet outside of work hours for calls.
@light @futo@minds.com @nlnetlabs Sweet I'll give them a peek. I've been looking at OTF too. I'm thinking to pitch either as censorship resistance tech with decentralized publishing or double down on people being able to make new decentralkzed web apps on fully local networks. I think the p2pad demo app has a lot of potential. Ipns://agregore.mauve.moe/docs/tutorials/p2pad-code-editor
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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
