Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

The nature of life right now is that you can wake up on any given day and discover that a giant corporation or maybe just one very rich man has taken something important away from you,

and there's nothing you can do about it,

and there will be no consequences for them at all

With the technology that is available today, we can build a network that spans a neighborhood wirelessly, without infrastructure.

We can adjoin nearby neighborhoods with nothing more than the thoughtful placement of an antenna (and a radio, of course, and perhaps a solar panel and battery if required for the thoughtful placement.)

We can *easily* cover our small town. I'm betting we can do it with 3 nodes, but it might take as many as six. That's fine, every participant can be a range extender (and vice versa).

We can cover our community with a free to access network, all you need is a radio, and we should be able to build those for $30 or less.

We live in a world of seamingly endless technological marvels, of massive potential, of immense beauty.

And so much of that potential, those marvels, and even that beauty, is locked up in the name of profit.

How many of the world's current horrors are being carried out in the name of profit?

not to yuck anyone's yum but, as someone who builds web-based experiences: apple mobile devices are garbage from a toilet ✌️

STOP DOING OFFICES

Edit: Apparent creator of this image, Pavel Samsonov: https://bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.social/post/3jvu3gud4hk22 /via @jsit

damn i need to study for the turing test

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

feeling stressed, time to veg out on my phone

*checks the news* oh no

*checks twitter* jesus this is even worse

*reads Wikipedia articles about different kinds of apples for three hours*

crisp, very sweet, and a little tart. see that’s what I’m looking for in an apple

Mastodon should support Markdown formatting. This should actually be defined as a part of ActivityPub. Beyond bold and italics, it would be great to create links to make the content easier to read. https://www.markdownguide.org #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker.

Thoughts?

#strike #noBillionaires #unionize

The “industry standard” modules used in digital braille displays are custom piezoelectric devices, costing around $100 per “letter,” making such displays impractically expensive for most applications.

I just learned about this hackaday prize winner, who has designed digital, refreshable #braille modules that cost less than $1 each, using teeny-tiny magnets and 3D printed parts.

https://youtu.be/BXi1tG78AW4
#OpenSource #accessibility technologies FTW!

Holy shit I think I’m in love.

#Protomaps, a way to serve vector #maps of the entire world using a single static file and HTTP range requests.

It’s basically a static site generator for interactive maps. Tile servers are pretty much obsolete now. No database needed, you can run your interactive, smooth-zooming vector map from any HTTP storage. S3, Caddy running on your Wi-Fi router, even GitHub pages.

https://protomaps.com/

It’s open source & free to use. Wow. 🤯

via https://chaos.social/@djh/111280447304607540

@jackofalltrades @escarpment @magitweeter

Capitalism is *ideologically* predicated on the idea that it consists of nothing more than free individuals voluntarily engaging in production and exchange using their private property.

The sleight of hand is that “private property” is a property mode that has only ever existed, and can only exist, as a product of state violence. Landlords can only extract rent from their tenants because that landlord can call up sheriff’s deputies to evict those tenants into homelessness, and all of the harms that entails, at gunpoint.

So we end up with constant, massive state intervention in the economy on behalf of capital owners—police who protect private property, registrars who survey and record ownership rights, courts that adjudicate those rights, copyrights and patents and trademarks, banks deputized to monopolize money production, direct state subsidies and indirect tax subsidies, zoning laws and licensing regimes that create barriers to market entry, enclosure of commons, debtors prisons, etc etc forever—which all becomes invisible as “state involvement” or “central planning.” So when we debate “state intervention,” we end up debating only those instances where the state intervenes to temper the worst excesses of the capital class.

How retro kick ass is that? Flash is resurrected sans the neglected, proprietary, security ridden, plugin bs of Adobe; thanks to Rust, and modern day sandboxed WebAssembly. No plugin required; small, compact, compatible engine, that unlocks decades of lost SWF content in all its vector visuals, MP3 stereo, and ActionScript-y glory. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle #flash #adobe #webdev #javascript #rust #retrogaming