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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Broke: Licensing personal projects as AGPL so mega-co's can't use them.
Woke; Writing personal projects in C, so mega-co's can't use them.
"Prompt engineering" this local copilot to actually do what I want. I'm gonna try to treat it like a codereview instead of "instructions" for what it should do. Apparently prepending an argument to a list of function calls is too big brain unless I word it just right. Though it's also just a 4GB model so what more can I expect
Killer feature of the web: Opening the same app in two tabs so you can be navigated to two views at once.
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In the first devlog for Rad Reader (rss reader) I present to you: a new icon, bug fixes from the support forum, and the very first OSX builds!! 🍾
https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader/devlog/689209/bug-fixes-galore-and-osx-builds
Sad again about how single window applications are the norm. So much screen real estate wasted and so much multitasking limited just cause the app decided it should handle tabs / views and only let you load a single window.
Playing Cloudpunk for the first time. It's a neat game. I was expecting it to have racing minigames and escort quests or something but it's mostly story driven with some open world exploration and trinket collection. The little npc convos and side quests really make it for me.
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No, I'm not a wizard, though we have similarities I just have #ADD real bad.
- we disappear for periods of time and come back with new clothes
- we obsess over small things and will go on about them
- we usually like a good pipe now and then
- sometimes when we talk it's like we are speaking in ancient tongues to most people
One thing I find fun is seeing people underestimate me and seeing the change in their face and poature when they reevaluate their assumptions.
At my first local meetup in like 5 years. It's wild how the scene has changed completely and it's nice to see some familiar faces despite it.
Thunderbird's spam detection thing is hella busted. Kinda wish there were fewer features.
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Yep! Google is labelling all Gemini sites as malware!
This is completely unbelievable, downright anti-competitive, and evil.
Google is literally trying to kill an entire protocol!
cc: @deadsuperhero
@atomicpoet
This is completely unbelievable, downright anti-competitive, and evil.
Google is literally trying to kill an entire protocol!
cc: @deadsuperhero
@atomicpoet
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I’ve come up with the term “software rebranding” to describe software changes for change’s sake that nobody asked for and are forced upon us for no apparent reason, much like corporate name and logo rebranding, which is almost universally a failure but continues nonetheless.
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Maybe the postal service should offer email?
I’ve been thinking about how I could have email service that isn’t a constant battle against Google over deliverability without having to use Gmail/Outlook/etc. and all the evil bullshit that entails.
Maybe there’s other providers who have the reputation and resources to deal with this but it to me thinking: if the postal service can deliver mail to everyone with a mailing address, why not have them do the same for email?
I know historically they were competitors, but I think that time has long passed. Aside from giving everyone reliable email it could also be a way to get back to internet email standards and get companies like Google to handle internet email properly. It has the negotiation benefits of something like single-payer health insurance.
I’m sure there’s downsides, and you could always have additional, privately-owned service addresses for that.
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I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.
Lol gonna ads a cron script to reboot my pixelfed instance every week since mariadb randomly locks uo every now and then if I don't and I'm too lazy to actually fix it
Every day the yearning to pivot to #BioEngineering and #SyntheticBiology grows deeper.
Neat info about how outside of DNA and gene therapy, cells can be induced to grow different structures using bioelectrical stimulus.
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look ok it's very simple!
I just want a body that never tires, a mind that never rests, and a soul that never hardens. I want to be left alone to my thoughts and craft while always surrounded by friends and loved ones and praise. I don't want anything to ever change and I don't want progress to ever stop. give me the lifespan of an immortal with the appreciation of every passing moment available only to the condemned facing the gallows.
that's all I ask.
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you never really realize how many charging-only USB cables you have until you try to program a fucking arduino
Got a salary review thing at work this month. Documenting all my responsibilities and weekly/monthly routine. Jeeze. I have a lot of hats. I remember back when I was an office drone and just had to juggle timelines and two three devs with their own features at a time. At least stuff is more stable than the 4 years of solo dev I was doing before.
- Pronouns
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- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
- Matrix
- @mauve:mauve.moe
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- @RangerMauve
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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
