Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

"Daily Driving Mobile Linux" posts are too overdone. What about a "Not Daily Driving Android" post?

- I did not get popup ads obscuring my apps.
- I did not have to restart Google Play Services
- I was able to remove the apps my OS came with.
- My phone did not overheat because it is too weak for built-in Google tracking.
- My phone did not get a virus from the official app sources.
- I didn't have Sudoku 2 preinstalled.

#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Android #Satire

Announcing the 10th #LoFi (#LocalFirst) meetup on Tuesday, November 28, at 11:00 AM EST. We have another fantastic lineup featuring Greg Svarovsky, Sunil Pai, and @mauve
Make sure to tune in by visiting https://lofi.software.

@marijn Check this out:

Your AI-free Content Deserves a Badge

https://notbyai.fyi/

⚠️ Edit: Please read the license and the following toot ⚠️

https://floss.social/@amin@alpha.polymaths.social/111461825808009435

It is not ideal. If I had known this and read the fine-print, I probably wouldn't have shared it 😔

#AIFree #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NotByAI #LLM #LLMs #SALAMI

I'd like to thank Amazon for their decision to start charging for IPv4 addresses on top of their already inflated monthly charges for a small VPS we're running on their infrastructure. Caused me to finally do some comparative shopping and wow, turns out we can get what we need, and more, from another provider for about a quarter of what we're paying now

Reverse GitHub Copilot, it doesn't write any code for you, instead it asks you to explain your code with non-specific questions and through the rubber duck effect this causes you to notice bugs and/or realize yourself how to proceed with coding. On the inside it is literally just Eliza (1964)

You should stop using Google Chrome. The company is following through on its threat to ban the ad/tracker blockers that a) help protect your privacy and b) make your web experience much more pleasant.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've spent roughly a decade hacking on ChromeOS: patching it, compiling it from source, and deploying it into schools and charities. It was one of the best software engineering projects I've ever seen, but "Manifest V3" marks the end of my work with the platform. Effective adblockers are a basic security tool on the modern web and disabling them makes ChromeOS pretty useless.

if we can use normal every day operating systems to virtualize weird operating systems we can use weird operating systems as our daily drivers and virtualize normalcy, just keep it in a little box when we absolutely have to interact with it.