Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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- Matrix
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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
Set my mother up with a Synology NAS recently. Lost a bunch of her files cause a cloud storage thing got yanked out from under her.
Now she can back her stuff up without having to worry about some corpo's opinions.
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otherwise we'll all be right back where we were, ten years from now. that's clear to everyone at this point, right? lasting solutions require addressing the sources of the problem, and profit incentives are one of the big sources.
gender (mostly positive)
My mom is apparently my biggest ally in trying to gender me properly. Double hard since it/its isn't really used for people in Russian.
Then some anglophones struggle to even use they/them despite it literally being a single word change and doesn't even require using weird suffixes
feelings (positive)
I feel like I should share some more of my happy feelings on here.
Had dinner with my folks today and the slow relationship building we've been workinv on all these years is paying off. Had a lovely and chill time and felt pretty understood and appreciated.
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I'm making an ActivityPub server for distributing transit alerts 🎉 The tool is completely open-source and fetches alerts from GTFS-realtime Service Alerts feeds
Official instance: https://transit.alerts.social
Currently works with:
@kingcountymetro
@commtrans
@soundtransit
I expect to add a lot more agencies to the instance in the near-ish future—want to validate more before going wider
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So I was thinking a calendar is kind of like a one way sms to your future self. Unlike usual smss that mostly go through space to another person, calendar messages go through time to reach your self.
snakes
I do so enjoy when my beast accepts it's weekly offering. It's a clumsy little reptile and it's so cute when it strikes.
Glad it's okay with defrosted flesh and that it's food does not need to suffer.
BTW for anyone wanting to migrate away from centralized chat to a more #federated alternative via #matrix I'd strongly suggest using https://etke.cc/ to set up your own instance and bridges to your existing chat apps.
You can bring your own VM and pay them to set it up along with a small monthly fee for upkeep. Generally good if you've got a community that wants to migrate together.
Still thinkin about makin an alt for feelings posting. I'm thinking lf calling it some sort of pun.
Been into messing with names in chatrooms with some meatspace pals. It's fun
Jeeze. People are really out here making 250k USD a year doing tech stuff. Literally can't imagine having that much money around.
Most people I know are barely getting 40 something.
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who called it “writing documentation” and not “manual labor”
One of the hard pars of doing a bunch of remote jobs instead of a single full time one is that I miss out on the extra wage theft that's expected of office workers where they check their emails and goof off for parts of the day. :P
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Imagine a hypothetical conference about AP, a virtual CVQCon if you will, but now imagine the infrastructure. What do we need to spend money on? If we keep our commitment to open systems (and I don't see why we shouldn't), we certainly won't find ourselves paying eight dollars a head for video conferencing. The only real costs are hosting costs, a bit of sysadmin time, plus a few hundred on creative commons furry art (obviously, branding is clearly important)
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I can't even begin to describe what the state of gaming on the Linux desktop is even like any more. When I started using Ubuntu back in 2005, Wine barely worked. Native commercial games were an absolute chore to get running.
Now, we're at a point where I can easily play loads of indie, retro, and AAA titles with great graphics and smooth be gameplay. My desktop plays Returnal like a PS5. My handheld can do something like 40 years worth of games, plus many current titles.
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f*cking apple
This kind of stuff really really makes me frustrated with Apple.
Their hardware is pretty good, but their software and, especially, the way they tie together their services to lock possibility away and the way they outright condescend to their developers is actively toxic.
They increasingly spend their time figuring out new ways to be digital landlords, extracting money from the processes of using their devices, death by nickel and dimeing you to the bone.
As cool as game trailers can be, all I really want to see in them is gameplay footage to see if it's actually fun / visually appealing
My roles right now are interesting.
- Coordinating small team of folks doing mostly technical writing and small scale web apps
- Making an open source HTTP server for proxying to p2p backends
- Coordinating a dev and myself for an HTTP API for p2p publishing with user management
- P2P database / indexing architecture consulting (managing a researcher, working with international groups)
And on top of that random fixes for Agregore when I have time.
Also got ny back touched up and boy howdy that hurts so much worse than my arm 😭 Hopefully my body doesn't reabsorb as much of the ink this time
- Pronouns
- they/them/it
- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
- Matrix
- @mauve:mauve.moe
- Github/Gitlab/Discord
- @RangerMauve
Mod
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
