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
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web developer. im going into battle and i need your darkest patterns
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I canʼt believe I have to tell people this, but
- Donʼt buy smart home shit
- Donʼt download an app to get a free smoothie
- Donʼt sign up for something you heard about in a piece of junk mail
- Donʼt create an account with fucking McDonald's or Chipotleʼs or whatever
- Donʼt use a coupon or a discount for something you werenʼt going to buy anyway
- Donʼt sign up for free trials
- Donʼt let the devil in through the front door
- Donʼt let them sell you anything
You will not come out ahead.
The fediverse occipies an interesting part of my social sphere where I mostly talk about work stuff (my primary hobby) and random rants.
In contrast I have some small group chats with a few folks from meatspace where I exclusively shitpost and share political toots.
Then in meatspace proper is when I go full goofball mode and also where I share my feelings.
It's fun having different spaces to explore different aspects of myself.
Every api call is a chance for them to make money off your data without your consent. Every stored file will get mined and sold to advertizers and LLMs
Gonna start writing notes in raw RDF and visualize then exclusively through graph layout engines
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@marcan this is why, for a while, my contribution to open source was not code
It was priming the pump on bugs: did you try this? Could you get this log? Here are the instructions if you don't know, etc
Thank you for endorsing what was often thankless work at the time
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@arisunz this issue exists in lots of places!! should be talked about more
on Windows, compiling an executable in most languages will probably make the linker embed the absolute path to the pdb inside your executable (which might contain your system username)
with Rust, it will embed the compiler version into your binary: If you’re using rustup then the absolute path to the compiler version is inside your user folder
in C and Cpp, if your build system gives the compiler an absolute path to a compilation unit, the __FILE__ macro will expand to this absolute path (and therefore may end up embedded in the binary in lots of forms). also if you don’t have -no-canonical-prefixes and you use a compiler version inside your home folder, you might end up with your username embedded in paths to compiler-internal headers in the debug symbols (not sure about the binary itself)
definitely something to be aware of if you’re shipping binaries for anything
Absolutely we need regulations like "Don't create cognitohazards" similar to stuff like "don't let metal shrapnel get into cereal"
I feel like the software industry could stand to have the equivalent of OSHA but for handling harms unique to it.
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Definitely do not go to these websites to get free study books. Also, don't go to https://12ft.io/ to unlock paywalls.
libgen.is, pk1lib.org, ethos.bl.uk, sabaq.pk, sci-hub.se, archive.org, lej4learning.com.pk, pdfdrive.com, unpaywall.org
Gonna try to quit tiktok. It's the last place I get a bunch of creepy ads thrown in my face and I think I'm just exhausted to have to deal with algorithms and tech that don't center user agency.
Imagineing an alternate reality where chrome got canned and google reader hadn't. Structured web and news feeds with potential logins for paywlls orbwhatever
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~32 years after the first website was published, we're celebrating with HTML in the Park. Toronto, August 19th
One fun fact is that even though I'm a tech person I've been lower income until pretty recently in my career and most of my friends in meatspace are in the lower brackets.
I get a bit of whiplash when I enter spaces with people making six figure salaries rather than living month to month.
Though TBH I feel way worse for folks that don't have the luxury of not needing to commute to work. Usually they have to commute even further for even shittier pay and shittier work conditions.
They should at least be offered significantly higher compensation. Pisses me off that folks can't afford to live close to where they work and that so many employers are comfortable with exploitation and destroying people's bodies and minds for short term profits.
Bluh, I feel bad for all the office workers I know that are being forced back into working from the office after getting a taste of remote.
Being fully remote since pre pandemic has made me extremely against being forced back into the commute and the noise. Thankful to be working with other fully remote folks!
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It's true that experimenting with this on your own isn't free, but it's also not out of reach as long as you have a general purpose computer (like, not an Android or iOS phone).
If you can't afford another computer, you can spin up a free, small Linux VM on your own laptop or desktop and experiment that way.
If you can afford a two hundred dollar expenditure and a few dollars a month of electricity, you can get a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny or a Dell Optiplex Micro or two and hook them up to your home network. These are typically sold in lots from large corporate deployments, where they are used as small, efficient desktops for thousands of employees until they no longer quite work. They are then sold individually for about a hundred dollars each on eBay. I run my home network on two of these, plus some other nonsense you don't really need.
Because of exactly what we're talking about here, these acquisitions are modular; you can get one box, plug it in, and experiment until you can afford another, then plug that one into the same network and see how they interact.
Ultimately, it's probably a cheaper hobby than, say, Magic: the Gathering.
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It's so many of our favorite people all in one podcast!
Listen to @mauve, Fauno, and Jacky Zhao as they discuss decentralized publishing on the latest episode of DWeb Decoded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqPomT1Teo #dweb
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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
