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
As much as I like flathub for making it easy to install linux apps, the permissions systems and OS styling is all over the place which is inconvenient. Probs works best if you stick to a default GNOME/KDE setup instead of all the weirdness I've got going on.
See I was hoping for stuff more along these lines from youtube: https://youtu.be/SrltwGJAiCM
Finally got the tiktok STEM tab but sadly most of it seems to be high school level math for folks studying for SATs which is not very interesting to me. Like the third video talking about the quadratic formula was wayy too much. Getting a bunch of geology content though which is an area I don't know much about and is interesting.
Yeah the full moon defs makes me more restless
Screeeech I wanna do something but my friends are morning people and there's a lot of covid cases right now so crowded clubs seem unappealing 😭
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@Molondrongo @futurebird @discoursology
if users can't figure out where their files are, they can't switch to an alternative app, can't protect themselves against the app deleting, modifying, or moving their files. Location obfuscation enables companies to have all the benefits of widely used interoperable file formats, but prevents users from using said benefits in ways which might not benefit the company. Whenever you see "intuitive", think about how that concept is used to manipulate people.
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I've said it before and you guys have ridiculed me for it (with the exception of a notable audience that wholeheartedly agrees)
Scrap the past 20 years of tech everything. All this flat bullshit UI design that's impossible to figure out how to use. Stupid touchscreen phones with no buttons or keyboards, and this nightmarish "mobile first" disaster that makes everything gross and terrible. Internet- and cloud-connected everything that's a safety and privacy nightmare. Hardware that's designed first and foremost with a scheduled obsoletion philosophy and artificially makes perfectly adequate equipment run like dirt.
Let's go back to Palm pilots, phones with actual buttons, Classic Mac OS, plain HTML with very little javascript, tape drives and manual backups, and finally have some sanity again.
This week's #Rust lesson was to wrap mutable bits of state in `Arc<Mutex<>>` otherwise you may encounter issues with data not persisting even though you think you've got mutable references to it.
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Furilabs Linux Phone
Link: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
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I unfortunately am not at all skilled in hardware design or development, but more than anything I just wish someone would put out a digital ring or smartwatch that could act as a personal wearable datastore, that could auto sync with other devices over bluetooth as a disk. I just can't believe we aren't walking around with 512gb local-syncing watches on our wrists. 😢
Lmao I Element really likes to make me suffer with weird bugs. Somehow the latest update manages to freeze my browser and then OOM when it tries to do some sort logic after initial load. Clearing cache didn't fix it either so I guess I just have no way of answer work messages in the middle of this major crunch
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.
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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
