Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

all software is open source if you’re good enough at social engineering

Also, in case it wasn't obvious, fuck student loans. Education should be free.

Are you working in the intersection of security and usability? Would $10K help you in your work? Then you should apply for this year's Norm Hardy Prize! https://foresight.org/norm-hardy-prize/ (feel free to repost this)

I love the irony of getting an "are you human" captcha then realizing that the entire article I clicked on was 100% AI generated

CF is amassing a lot of power. With 30% of all Internet Traffic going through CF and them decrypting all HTTPS traffic at the Edge...and able to change any or all of it transparently. This extract from CF's blog reads like a Government/Thread Actor's dream come true....

Game dev is the bizarro world where everything you've learned in high school is still relevant.

Anarchists don’t have to agree on a best way of doing things or to find single answers to questions about the future. Anarchism won’t come to pass when enough people agree on how to live anarchically but rather when enough people feel the price for any other way of life is too high, too bloody. It’s not a single best way of doing things, it’s what’s left when the cops are gone. It’s what free people can build on that foundation.

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #TheAnarchistLibrary

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adrian-riskin-anarchism-isn-t-a-fantasy-and-it-s-not-a-political-theory

Google killing off their basic HTML version of Gmail due to basic HTML not including 'full feature functionality' seems like code for 'we don't make ad revenue off this version'.

We relied on the basic HTML version while doing arctic fieldwork in 2017 using low bandwidth satellite internet. Gone were extraneous graphics and junk ads getting served - just mail. It's also no longer possible to auto sort messages in the full version without enabling tracking to serve ads.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/25/gmail_basic_html_discontinued/

@lePetomaneAncien @futurebird @natty @neckspike @adamp Yeah, we're getting "right to repair" for mobile phones, but not for medical devices people rely on to be functional members of society

A friend asked me "how do i get amazing frontend chops?"

I answered off the top of my head:
- Go implement some challenging designs
- Go sit with a designer who really cares about their work, and iterate like mad in parallel with them.
- Animate some complex shit.
- Drive your browser with only a screen reader for a week.
- Go work on implementing data tables with 100,000 rows.
- Oh, and try using the web at 400% zoom for a while. Fix everything that's busted on your site when you do.

(Add your own! There's so many great ways to learn the expertise required)

A little teaser of a talk I'm doing for #DC212 tomorrow about the #PirateBox project and how we're reviving the idea. In this day and age, I think we need to bring this project back to the forefront more than ever!

There are some folks who want a faster-moving, constantly-updated AP and AS2 docs.

We have a great process for making new extensions and applications of AP and AS2. It moves fast and is really loose:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

And you can do this kind of development outside of the FEP process, too.

AP and AS2 need to move slow and stable so everyone can build on them. Extensions can be fast and wild, because that's where new things happen.

NEPHEW: Does life get easier when you're older?

ME: [eating "ranch blasted" taco shells directly from the box because they are basically giant corn chips] Life doesn't get easier but you learn to adapt

@mcc imagining the timeline where nobody figured out chemical batteries and so all electrical capacitors everywhere run on clockwork

materials science is less interested in finding room-temperature semiconductors and more in finding materials for making the smallest, sturdiest springs possible

@mauve@mauve.moe In Oslo, 20 years ago there was an art exhibition on 3 central subway stations where they changed all the ads with art for a couple of weeks. It was suddenly so nice to wait for the subway withouth being forced to watch all this stuff that is really shouting. No movement and just food for thought, if you wanted to take it in.

Did you know that the CEO of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, is also on the board of The Walt Disney Company?

They are, and the UAW are quite literally up against the same people SAG-AFTRA and WGA are up against. Their fight is our fight.

Maybe concentrating wealth and power in only a few hands was a bad idea.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #AutoworkersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UAWstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UAWstrong #UnionStrong