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
Now that Rust have given me predictable and easy to use destructors via the Drop trait I kinda wish I had them everywhere :x
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The @snarfed.org bridge is one of the coolest things about the fediverse right now. It is amazing to me that more people aren't talking about it. It shows so much potential for the future of the open web. I want to see a 1000 bridges to a 1000 different networks bloom.
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One of the strongest arguments for right-to-repair (that no one wants to make) is that as the supply chain collapses, maintaining all the technology in our possession becomes exponentially more important. Parts must be interchangeable, accessible, and open for this to really work at all.
LMAO I think I just literally used magic to make this networking code work. 🤪
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Yep, the Chrome team is now reaching into your machine to remove your browser extensions. Don't want them to? Tough noogies.
🙃
That's not your browser.
That's not your web.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#latest
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It’s fascinating to see just how fast the web could be if it wasn't burdened by images and millions of lines of Javascript. Check out CNN's "lite" web site.
I added a thing to my window manager to show me the current moon phase so I could be more aware of the moon in general. It's pretty wild that it's floating up there while we join it on its rotation around the sun.
My cats are just too cute. It's amazing how effortlessly they make my heart weep from joy just by seeing them sleeping in the sun.
Call me an Enterprise Java Programmer or whatever but I really like method and variable names that say exactly what they are rather then saving characters.
`let routing_context = bla bla; routing_context.get_route()` is just so much quicker for me to grock than `let rc = bla bla; rc.get_route()`. Then again I guess the intellisense stuff would be popping up the type for folks for the shortnames?
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In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!
Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.
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my pronouns are they/them/../../../etc/shadow
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What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.
No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.
Just be inert until acted upon!
Who needs to worry about LLMs eating my system resources when `cargo build` will do it just fine. 🤪
Listening to Bill Jobs, fixin bugs and adding network outage recovery.
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Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION
Thinking about, if someone were to try to teach "Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" , the basically thirty pages of explanation that would be needed to make it make sense. It's so rooted in a cultural context… all the Minecraft mechanics you need to understand. Familiarity with the "Prison Server" concept. Enough knowledge of present day serialized media to recognize the video you're watching is stitched together out of shorter videos…
Recipe websites are examples of how the internet keeps getting less and less useful.
The project itself has been a team effort and I'm thankful for help from my teammates at Hypha + various folks on the interwebs. Hopefully we can stabilize and document this stuff this month so we can show a full demo.
It's been a bit of a journey learning #rust and #veilid and #iroh but these last few functions were very satisfying to write. This code triggers a download of an Iroh-blobs based file from it's hash by establishing tunnels to peers in a group using a multiplexer I built using Veilid AppMessages over private routes. The code to get here was hella messy but these functions felt pretty elegant.
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tired: it's your own fault if the TLD your organization depends on evaporates for unrelated political reasons entirely out of your control
wired: shut down every .com whose index.html doesn't execute cleanly in x86 real mode
- Pronouns
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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
