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 feel like more businesses should be using VR for demoing stuff and for meetings. It's cheaper to buy and ship a headset than it is to fly somebody over or to pay for office / showroom space.
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The question is: what do governments and law enforcements do when they realize every single person has a little agent on their phone that can answer literally *any* question about their activities, in simple human language? The “crypto wars” are going to look quaint.
The temptation to legislate government access to this agent will be enormous. It’ll start with heinous crimes like child sexual abuse or terrorism, and it will appear tightly targeted. But it will be applied at massive scale, to millions of people.
I miss when browsers would cache pages for offline use by default. It's so annoying that I need to wait for site devs to do a bunch of custom behavior with service workers instead of having control of it at the user agent. Sadly Electron doesn't make the caching super easy so it'd be a lot of time investment to add to Aggregore
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also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service
the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor
we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity
public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have
public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism
Thankful for the cool bsky folks that have enabled bridgy federation so I can see their stuff from this side of the fediverse 🥳
Screech 😵
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*experience problem with home assistant*
*find a github issue about it*
*...stale bot has closed and locked the issue*
:neocat_floof_explode:
re-upped my fancy instant noodle supply 😈 The one I had today had like 6 mysterious packets of goop in it.
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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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
