Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
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This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.
It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.
It consumes just under 1W.
Its database is this size:
-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db
That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.
Its average CPU load is extremely low.
It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.
I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.
I promise myself to use it more, and I will.
You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.
You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.
Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.
EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.
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"Large/long-scale industry studies [of LLM use for programming] show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software. If ever we needed proof that software development isn’t a production process."
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-the-data-say/
@aeva it'll be an amazing day when linux folks can recreate the utility of Procreate on an iPad Pro 😭💜
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@argv_minus_one @murdoc @renardboy @KatyElphinstone my "party trick " back in the early 90's and while a sysop of a home BBS system was I could whistle the handshake of a 9600 band modem XD
They'd phone up, I'd answer get their handshake, I'd respond then they'd start transmission and I'd put the phone down XD
Kokofreakbean really lives up to their name. Really nothing like em out there.
Finding signal in a bunch of slop genned noise is a pain.
Remember kids: the best way to lie is to tell the truth!
@futureisfoss the meta right now is buying those mac minis with the "unified memory" so you can use the RAM with their GPU acceleration. Something like a 64 gig box should do the trick. I ended up getting a 128 GB DGX spark alternative cause I didn't want to worry about ram for a few years. 😝
@futureisfoss Hmm tbh it depends on what you're trying to do. I'd say for multi round coding taskd with longer contexts anything less than 27B won't cut it. And even then Qwen 3.6+ seems to be one of the few that actually cut it. For basic stuff like zero shot bash scripts or code snippets 8b models can work well enough, even the 4b gemma models can handle zero shot tasks if you keep their context small. Use vllm or llama.cpp instead of ollama for running inference.
Youtube search is such garbage lately. It's hard to actually get the videos for my search terms. And then harder to find something that's low effort and full of empty words. 🥲 Gotta publish my own blog post about it once I figure it out.
Snake food
My ball python missed its initial strike on its food and now it's too nervous to acrually eat it 😭 Sensitive baby.
@symbiogenic These aren't *amazing* but they're real and get the job done. i sleep with them on the daily. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004258147797.html The mic is so so but not the worst.
Pissed off at how many supposed "bone conduction" headsets are actually "air conduction". One I considered had the usual bone conduction design in the marketing but very obviously had shitty speaker grates in the customer review photos.
23. I've been meaning to get a fancier bone conducting headset for my setup. This one comes with a camera that I could feed into my local assistant! Better than the clunky wired cameras I have but never use. Goal would be to speed up note taking or scanning business cards or event photos.
https://voulao.com/products/voulao-e12-bone-conduction-headphones-with-camera
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Link: https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421158
Systemd is the GNOME of init scripts.
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Yep, I'm about to be that person again. Please remember to put alt text on your audio as well as your images. Deaf people matter, too. "A silly song" or "game sounds" is not helpful, the same way "a cute bird" or "a funny meme with a cat" aren't helpful as image alt texts. Blind or sighted, please do this. I'm not even someone who really needs audio alt texts and I'm still sad when I see missing or unhelpful alt text. It doesn't have to be some elaborate thing, you don't have to be a perfect writer or capture every minute detail, just describe what you're hearing. I always liked the thing of "describe it like you're talking to a friend who can't access it," and I think that's applicable here just as much as it is to images. And no, it is not just deaf people who benefit from audio alt texts.
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Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
