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.
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Joined Apr 2022
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During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab.
https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ #science #nature
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It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)
It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.
Kinda wanna play a text adventure
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Anthropic when Chinese companies use Claude to train their own AI models vs Anothropic when they’re stealing everyone’s data to train Claude
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u never have to worry about ur code quality when posting on hackernews cuz they never read it anyways and just post their thoughts based on the title
@rmond I really gotta write up a proper blog post about it! tl;dr, I used to use an intel NUC with a BT keyboard, apple trackpad, powerbank, and usb-c monitor. Then I replaced the kb/trackpad with a mini keyboard meant for TVs, switched the nuc for a steam deck, swithed the deck and kb with a gpd win 4, started using a one handed keyboard and ar glasses display, and am about to use a khadas edge 2 for compute and bring back the battery pack, switch between glasses and usb monitor. Mb audio only?
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
@mdhughes Gotta try everything once, right?
Wish I thought to order this phone holder thingie way before Lunar New Year. 😅
I get my computer setup is janky as heck but it really pays off! I'm gonna switch up my main compute module this year but my screen/monitor/battery components will still be usable! Ship of thesius as a computing platform.
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"Disable your ad blocker to continue"
::closes browser tab::
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@TonyVladusich @johncarlosbaez when giving a research talk, rather than saying "that's a great question" all the time, I always wanted to institute a policy of giving the questions a score out of 10 before answering. Haven't done it yet, but one day...
@jj_3 I found the time based search at least only showed results for things that contained my search string instead of "popular videos vaguely related to your search string's semantic meaning"
@ligaturerecords The bit about it needing way more training data than humans is very compelling.
Youtube removed the ability to sort search results by "recent first" which was the last non-algorithm based way to get results. Now it's all useless BS and clickbait.
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My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But he reports that "absolutely everything works better than Windows".
I suggested he use KDE for the desktop, and he is blown away about how good everything looks, and how easy the user experience is. He has used Linux for a bit probably 7 or 8 years ago when he used a salvaged laptop at uni that had Ubuntu on it, and he remembers that being a bit janky and frustrating, but now he's decided that he'll wipe the Windows partition and stay with Linux.
So keep it up, clever people that are making Linux distros and software, you're winning.
#Linux #Bazzite #KDE #Steam
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Recommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits
Mesh network? I sure hope it does!
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
