Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I wonder if one could compile Chrome OS from within a chromebook.

One reason I want to create an @agregore OS based on Chrome OS is that there's loads of #ChromeBook e-waste that could be repurposed into #p2p #meshnetwork nodes.

They're probably cheaper to get a hold of than other computers since there's so many being flooded as schools buy and get rid of them.

Adding p2p mesh stuff and de-googling them somewhat would be useful to bring utility to folks with less means or in situations where always-on internet just isn't viable.

Really cool video by @b5 looking at optimizations over #kademlia #dht algos by taking latency into account when searching for data. Seems like it would be very useful for #p2p and #localfirst protocols.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OUUXIldZas

I love all my european colleages but god damn is it painful to have to get up two hours early to attend meetings 😭😭

God I don't want to work today. I just want to be cozy in bed and listening to a spooky podcast or something.

Sadly I need to instead do end to end testing of distributed publishing workflows and make sure it's all working by Thursday. 😓

We'll know the #fediverse has finally made it to the mainstream when we start seeing screenshots of posts on people's Instagram reels.

It's amazing that database queries work at all given how groady some of the join pyramids people use are.

#SQL is powerful as hell but the evil magic that goes into making it possible is pretty intense.

Yes I am in fact procrastinating on the fediverse instead of updating the budget / timeline of this grant. :P

Does #ActivityPub have a spec for communities to expose their combined timeline?

I think that would be super cool to combine with #p2p indexing where you could follow entire instances by lazily querying data from their timline index on the fly instead of needing to load everything on your server first.

Playing #HypnospaceOutlaw really helped put the fedi into context for me.

They did a good job of giving the aesthetic of random trolls and blogs on the internet just kinda existing in their tiny communities.

It helps that they have a 90's/00's retro aesthetic, but it's pretty much just a more exaggerated version of what we have now.

Main thing I learned from shopping around for instances is that there's a lot of cool color schemes and themes on the fediverse and that isn't reflected in the feeling of browsing fedi from a client.

it'd be cool if we had a spec to add a background/font style to let people express themselves more openly.

Yikes, the fedi do be a bit spicy if you get out of the higher trust+moderation use case.

I think my comfort so far has been from mostly following professionals that I kinda know already

Honestly spinning off another individual instance feels like less cognitive overhead for me 😨 So many choices

Oh it's even worse than I thought. Everything is set to "apply for an account" which impliesa bunch of hassle before you can actually do anything. Is this for safety or is it due to all the servers getting overloaded?

Tried looking for new instances to join and it's pretty harrowing. I think at least one is run like a cult