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
Indexer? I hardly know 'er!
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Just as medieval nobles had no shortage of people telling them that they were pious despite their wars and mistresses, so does the modern CEO class have no shortage of sycophants assuring them that they are very intelligent.
The desired virtues may change, but the nature of power does not, not really.
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Amidst the chaos of the current internet, sooth your sorrows with cool gear! Use "CAPITALISM2022" & get a free 555 pin w/ purchase of colorful clips! Also, if you spend more than 50$ you'll get 10% off. And the RESEARCH & DESTROY stickers are here! 💝🤖
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it's hard to explain to people that software is a fundamentally communal activity because they're like "ohh you're a dev! you must be so smart!" and like. it literally does not matter how smart i am. none of this works at all unless we can collaborate across time and space.
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Big rumblings in the expansion of the #Fediverse have been happening recently.
#Tumblr has already promised to implement #ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon uses), which will mean you can follow Tumblr accounts from here and vice versa. And today we a learning that #Flickr is also considering it!
This will be a massive expansion, which obviously carries some uncertainties, but I, for one, welcome our new federation partners.
This is the way the internet is supposed to work.
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I wish we could rely on governments or companies or other institutions to be there for us. But increasingly we will not be able to. *We have to do it ourselves.*
Housing, community safety, cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure, local journalism, education, preventing drug overdoses, running social media…It is all up to us. There is no one else.
It's a dizzying realization. It's terrifying…but also incredibly empowering.
Does anyone else feel this way?
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Ooo. I'm thinking of taking a small vacation from work for a couple of weeks in December.
Maybe I'll finally have time to migrate away from Pop OS to something that doesn't use GNOME. :P Been having a bunch of trouble since Gnome 42 came out and all my themes broke + it started freezing up.
Any KDE things out there that have decent support for Intel machines?
IMO Clients for all the fedi apps should prefer to use the ActivityPub Client-Server API as good praxis regardless of the backend they might be tailored to. 🤷
For those that have been seeing me ramble about this every chance I get. We've submitted the initial PR for our #IPLD #ProllyTrees spec.
This is a great building block for building #p2p databases which use sparsely replicated indexes to quickly load just the data that's needed.
Once we get some indexing going on top of these things, waiting for stuff to sync will be something you barely need to think about in P2P social apps! 🎉
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Technology isn’t about computers. Technology is about people.
@hank This website should just be part of the unicode spec!
The fact that there are a bunch of 😻😹 cat emoji with different expression seems to beg for the same being the same of the 😈 devil emoji.
Sometimes I'm happy devil, but a devil do be feeling other emotions sometimes.
Ooo, just had a great idea for how to make 3d graph layout easier for flowchart-like constructs.
Basically, what if you use a regular format like graphviz for your usual 2d layout stuff. But then if you place something in a subgraph it goes on a different `z` layer. Such that you can have a bunch of layers but can still have that flowchart arrangement. E.g. you could link up and down between two layers and the nodes would be placed close together.
Juggling a billion projects is hard. Gonna try to reduce hours next month as much as I can to give my body and mind a break.
Is there a client for Mastodon that purely speaks in ActivityPub rather than mastodon-specific APIs?
Ahhh, the initial spec of IPLD prolly trees is almost done and we're about to start writing a golang impl based on the spec that'll integrate with other IPLD things more easily.
Next we're going to be working on indexing data on top of it, and from there' it's a small jump to bridging the fediverse wtih p2p by publishing indexed activity streams onto IPLD!
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If you're feeling lonely this holiday, just toot "if you can't push to prod on thanksgiving you're not a real devops" and a whole community of people will keep you company. In fact you'll even get a job offer from Netflix.
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Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?
That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!
→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←
For example, our Mastodon URL "https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird"
becomes
"https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird.rss"
What about #hashtags? YEP!
Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource"
So, we just append .rss and it works!
"https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource.rss"
REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!
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The hardest problem in computer science is to make a social network without nazis
I wish there was some format for DnD which could be a lot more async at the speed of an email thread or forums. Or the speed of someone casually playing a chess game with a friend over the course of a week, paying attention to it when it's their move and they happen to have time.
- Pronouns
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- @RangerMauve
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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
