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
I think social media platforms should have a block button that's like "fuck you, and fuck all your friends". Less so on the fedi but I think a lot of other platforms for "creators" could stand to benefit it as a more efficient way to cull trolls
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Just remember, kids: It's perfectly legal for people to take your writing, code, videos, music and other works into a 'dataset' that can be used to train an LLM model to forge your art or writing style -- for money.
But if a nonprofit decides to purchase hardcopy books, scan them in, and create a digital lending program providing works to anyone who asks -- for free, that's checks notes illegal. :D
Riddle me this Batman: WHen I run some code in one project it seems to work fine, but pretty much the exact same code in another project causes unexplainable stack overflows. How is that possible when the dependencies are the same version?
I love wasting hours and hours on build issues and random failures on startup instead of actual code.
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It just occurred to me that the phases in waterfall software development could just as well have been named after the stages of grief:
1. denial (requirements and design)
2. anger (implementation)
3. bargaining (functional testing)
4. depression (alpha & beta testing) and
5. acceptance (release)
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someone over on bsky asked me if anyone knows of any active Brazilian-focused instances that are good (active and well moderated)
if you know any please reply and i'll make sure your suggestion gets passed along
Is it just me or do folks see issues with long list based explanations as being potentially LLM generated?
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Can you boost this please? I'm sort of load-testing / trying to reproduce a bug, and I think I need a bit more traffic to do so. Thank you!
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DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
My cats have decided that my morning meetings are the best time to get super needy and meow non-stop.
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MPs should not be landlords.
MPs should not have outside employments.
MPs should not be allowed to receive gifts of any kind (which are bribes pure and simple).
They already get nearly 100K salary and many claim 200K expenses on top of that.
The whole system is corrupt.
Anyone wanna hire me to touch computers for your bioengineering project? :P I specialize in managing information flow and databases, particularly in decentralized / distributed setups. e.g. agregating data from different groups without needing one central database.
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I had to go out to buy a specific version of the iPad in order for my kids to be able to do their homework.
Educational policies aside, it was a sad reminder of what we are losing when we let the web be displaced by propietary apps.
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tech venting
Betterbird has been randomly crashing on top of no longer consistently logging into my outlook email. I fucking hate the state of email and especially wish I hadn't tied so much with microsoft when I was younger.
My poor mastodon server reached a full disk since it seems my automated cleanup script wasn't running. Luckily I had a file allocatex to give me extra space for recovery and I let it run overnight. :P 75 GB of random attachmentd I probably have never seen. I think stuff like that should be loaded on demand tbh
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Be the change you want to see in the world. Start by changing your editor settings from spaces to tabs.
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I just realized what I hate about modern chat: it's not a small window on the screen anymore, it's *the whole screen*.
Discord (et al) is barely usable in a small window, whereas AOL Instant Messenger was *very* usable in a small window as you went about your browsing.
For me, smaller window = fewer distractions.
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- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
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- @RangerMauve
Mod
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
