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.
Also exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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Here's a half-formed thought I need to mull a bit on:
Somehow, algorithmic (and especially "AI-driven") decision making tends to only be proposed in contexts where it can only — or mostly — affect those with the least power in the system.
Migrants and asylum seekers.
Prisoners.
Families using any form of state support (child benefits, foodstamps, etc).
Palestinians in Gaza.
It somehow never gets proposed for use-cases where it might affect the wealthy and powerful.
One wonders why. 🤔
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I sometimes forget that my experience with AI is totally different from either the corporate or consumer experiences. Folks are talking about gpt 4 or claude or whatever while I'm focusing on tinydolphin and hermes 2 pro.
Shit I might get a beefier version of my GPD Win 4 so I can fit larger models into video ram. 😭
Whoaaaa. Eclipse
My matrix server is like a hungry beast. I feed it CPU and RAM and it just keeps asking for more. Then again it is handling thousands of chat rooms and accounts at this point and needs to calculate a huge diff to send to my client every time I load. :P
Heads up: Matrix like all append only log systems sucks when you're not always online and loading data.
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fun fact: if you have a laptop or desktop that has an intel cpu with "vPro" on the sticker there's a chance the management engine in your CPU is just hosting a web server at all times.
It's at port 16992
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🆕 blog! “The Fediverse of Things”
One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-fediverse-of-things/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #IoT #SocialNetworks
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Netizens, what are you doing to restore the Cyber-occult utopia?
What are folks using for subscribing to #email #MailingList software? We basically want something to manage email signups which we can use with an API to send out emails to everyone. Ideally they should be able to unsub if they want. We'd want to be able to send either html or markdown via api.
Bonus points if the tool can subscript to an ActivityPub actor. :P
Honestly so done with winter. This sucks.
My favorite @agregore feature is the built in "Reader Mode" which makes it easier for me to read articles without all the random styling and page sizing assumptions websites add.
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“The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It”
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/09/the-insurance-buys-the-wheelchair-but-not-the-app-to-run-it/
Which covers this post from a wheelchair user who had to hack his wheelchair to get basic features:
https://lemmy.zip/post/11077316
Because Alber’s ‘Mobility Plus Package’ locks features (like speed control) behind a payment:
https://www.alber.de/en/help-service/alber-mobility-apps/
via @eric:
https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/112202585269370056
K, I'm thinking of following some bluesky accounts via https://fed.brid.gy/
Anyone I'm already interacting with here wanna link me their bsky accounts so I can see more of their stuff?
Honestly reframing goals and problems has been one of these super powers for managing stress for myself
When the going gets tough change the concept of going.
Eep. The default console in GNOME is taking up like 200 MB of ram for a single tab. The bloat Linux distros are okay with having in their core runtime is unfortunate. Might need to redo my OS yet again after spending all this time tinkering with it. 🤷
Strongly considering getting some pamphlets printed about the fediverse to hand out to folks since literally nobody (figuratively speaking) seems to know about it.
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"You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code." is a fire quote https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
See if I transpile everything to common lisp it'll be easier to do code analysis for tracibility accross data pipelines and programming langiages.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Also exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
