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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Prime day is a great time to remember that alternatives to most of Amazon's services not only exist, but in cases like audiobooks are actively superior to their offering!
E.g. libro.fm, where you get to both own your audiobooks and support local book shops. Seems better than giving Bezos more cash
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Advertising isn't inevitable, it's a thing that was invented, it became the dominant funding model on the web because it appears to have no cost to the user and it doesn't appear to interfere with the free and open access principles of the early web.
It actually has significant cost to users, we pay in time, privacy, experience, and security.
It's eroded the free and open web, spawned walled gardens whose only goal is to capture more of the user's time.
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Companies: oh noes hackers broke in and stole your old data 😢
Me: and as usual I can do nothing except wait and see what cyberpunk crimes they or their buyers attempt, right?
Companies: right! 🤗
Me: how about you stop hoarding customer data to sell?
Companies: haha wtf no 🙃
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i was this kid, in beirut, using cracked and pirated software to learn how to program. stuff that was never released in the middle east or stuff that wouldnt make sense to buy for a 10 year old. and guess what? microsoft didnt go out of business. and i have a career in media art and software engineering despite being from the armpit of the world. win win. intellectual property is fake, steal from corporations, kill the cop in your mind.
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How ‘bout instead of machines that steal from artists to “democratize creativity” we have machines that steal from billionaires to democratize money
Speaking of RAM I might end up upgrading to the higher spec GPD WIN 4 model since I keep running out. I have like 3 GB allocated to video ram right now and VS Code eats through half of the remainder just idling in a rust project. God forbid I open a zoom call then my Element client (which easily reaches 3GB) client gets killed by the system 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.
My main win from using wayland natively is that my speech to text with `ydotool` now gets affected by keyboard modifyers. If I want to quit an application I hit my left bumper (mapped to ctrl) on my controller and say `quebec`. If I want to open my terminal I hit R4 and say "tango". Toggling my STT is R4+A (return jkey).
With this I am more effective with stt+controller than my mini bt keyboard. 🥳
Eventually I want to get a screen reader involved to more effectively navigate content.
I don't think I'd make a good warlord because my strategy is to grow big as fast as possible and crush my foes with might. More nuance and politica is way to frustrating in comparison. Mostly in Civ and Magic The Gathering
Neat, came accross this alternative to the #SteamDeck
Seems to be aimed mostly at retro gamers but it also has a vr mode for some reason. I wonder if it can run linux >:)
C++ Dependencies 💀
BTW for anyone into #VR #XR #AR and #Cyberspace, I have a matrix channel set up where we chat about that stuff and how it overlaps with decentralized systems. https://matrix.to/#/#LoFirCy:mauve.moe
I love that feeling when I change to a new input device and have to start relearning the muscle memory for all of my keyboard shortcuts.
it's funny when I keep hitting the wrong key and accidentally mess up
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@screaminggoat @mttaggart conversely, as someone who works in cyber insurance, and sees that the amount of data held is one of the biggest drivers of incident costs, I’d *love* to see less personal data being held by companies and moved around.
Been doing a bit better at letting my body rest when sick instead of pushing through but the productivity hit so frustrating. An entire day and then some lost to a cold TT_TT
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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
