Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Every worker in every industry deserves a union, and tech right now is having a clear demonstration of how our lack of unions hurts us.

I just heard an exec say that it was "unfortunate" that we couldn't fire people faster in other parts of the world because of labor protections. Sit with that for a moment.

In the US unions are one of our very very few tools to give us any chance at all.

We need strong unions to push back against this sort of callous insensitivity backed by unchecked greed.

The vision of the future sketched here, the one Hasbro is currently risking destroying D&D forever to create, is really deeply depressing. Instead of having fun painting little models and maps, or God forbid *imagining*, you just pay $3.99 over and over forever. Some leaks float the idea of eliminating the DM role entirely (an "AI" does that).

Interposing technology where it's not really needed because technology can be monetized (taxed) in a way imagination can't.

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

tiktok has a button employees can click to artificially boost posts! facebook gives every employee $3,000 a year in free ad credits! spotify invents fake royalty-free artists out of thin air and gives them placement to artificially dilute the per-play royalty!

Capitalists understand collective action.

The current layoffs *are* collective action. They're collective action *by the Capitalists* to suppress wages/rights.

@anildash I don't think enough people have realized how incredibly valuable the robust universal sandboxing provided by WASM is going to be

I genuinely don't want to run code written by other people that's NOT in a sandbox at this point: even if I trust them, do I also trust them not to have written any bugs?

WASM to me represents the freedom to run code on my machines again!

To provide electricity at Pompeii, without wrecking the historic feel of the site, "invisible" photovoltaic cells have been installed that mimic terracotta roof tiles.

https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/pompeii-features-invisible-pv-panels-in-the-form-of-roof-tiles-11435

Here’s a quick prerelease demo of what we’ve been working on. #p2p #offlinefirst #localfirst #nat-traversal #holepunching #crossplatform

https://youtu.be/PhTjKtrpCYk

#PineTab2 software progress :)

Come check it out at our @fosdem stall 4 & 5 February!

Pictures via developer Dieselnutjob (github.com/dieselnutjob)

Give me smaller, simpler, slower software, written by fewer people, under less pressure, intended for longer service. Please!

Hey XR friends. If you're waiting for Apple to deliver an iPhone moment then I humbly suggest that instead you focus on open web standards for XR on a variety of hardware. It isn't just that we don't want another hypercorp silo, it's that Papa Apple no longer has what it takes.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23560097/apple-ar-vr-glasses-headset-rumor-mixed-reality

I get it cats, I also sleep all day long and maniac-run at 3am when I feel guilty I haven't exercised in a while.