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
@DrPsyBuffy That makes sense. Hopefully it will work out sooner or later. It sounds like a rough time down there right now 🙏
Been playin Borderlands 3 with one of my pals once a week. They did a great job making split screen work IMO. Also a much more fun game with friends.
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Those that obsess over LLMs like to believe that Plain English sits at the top of the abstraction pile, that it is the thing that a programming environment should seek to model. From this point of view, an LLM seems perfect: type in words, program comes out.
But Plain English is not the top of the pile, not even close. It's an imprecise and clumsy lingo. The process of development is about throwing away that imprecision and engaging with the reality of the possibility space.
@tahnok Yeah! If you join the group you should be able to get notifs. I'm hoping to do one once every month or two
Spent a bit last night looking at the state of client apis for signal and matrix and I get ehy everyone is making new chat protocols instead of connecting to existing stuff.
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@mos_8502 God I wish. Low key the conservatives would be kicking ass if they didn't get derailed by all the right wing BS. The liberal party seems to be getting closer to what a conservative party would be and eating their lunch.
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Imagine saying this to someone 50years ago: "Netcat found a bug in the pipe playing with the mouse"
#technology #innovation #communication #generationaldifference #Meme
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Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.
Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.
They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.
It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.
@DrPsyBuffy what steps are you taking?
@nasser sauce? :o
Reminds me of when I was trying to do go channels in JS with promises. https://www.npmjs.com/package/promise-channel
@light I usually listen to ebooks while I do chores with TTS actually 😸
Currently reading through Handmaid's tale and some non fiction books.
Been agressively blocking my social media and doom scrolling apps and it looks like I'm filling the void with videogames and reading some of the blog posts in my backlog. Lots of screen time but feels less brain dead
Flesh, amirite?
Looking back I kinda wish WebSQL didn't get abandoned. So many apps would benefit from having that be browser native. Also dev tools having it built in would mean stuff like performance analysis and user discovery / querying could be a thing.
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It can be hard for those that don't do a lot of programming to understand, but programmers do not think in Plain English (or whatever their native tongue is). They do not, for the most part, spend their time wrangling & getting frustrated at their tools.
Instead, programmers think in abstractions that sit beyond the realm of natural language, and those abstractions are carved through dialect with the machine. The machine pushes back, the chisel strikes the marble, and the abstraction evolves.
@tahnok Feel free to sign up here :) https://www.meetup.com/decentralized-ottawa/events/307548114/
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"Lol," said Gandalf. "Lmao."
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Actual p2p requires that people actually care about the thing to keep it available, which is bad to them for some reason.
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TIL: The European Union Public License.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence
Looks pretty decent actually!
• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity
#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing
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WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.
Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV
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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
