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
Lmao, re-running an neural network training thing I did a month ago and it's no longer able to train a working model. Not even sure what changed 🤷
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nazi techbro avoidance
Over the past month, I've been doing my best to de-mega-corp my tech ecosystem.
My conclusion: unless you are a skilled tech nerd with money and are willing and able to do it, it's basically impossible to not be exploited by your tech.
Tech's current state is abusive in all the worst ways, and frankly it should be illegal.
Tech professionals should be ashamed by what we have wrought.
#python tips for folks getting started.
Don't use the system-level python as that can update and break dependencies. E.g. Arch uses 3.13 if you update and Tensorflow can't go above 3.12.
Use pyenv to do version management per project. https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
Don't install pip dependencies globally. Use virtualenv to set up dependencies per project. https://virtualenv.pypa.io/
Python versioning is rough out of the box and these tips can save you some pain.
The appeal of machine learning to me is how clean the actual structure of models can be once you split it up in the right layers.
A lot of "application" code is a tangled web of dependencies and small independent or coupled bits of state that you need to coordinate in bizarre ways to account for the difficulty of state management in distributed systems.
ML on the other hand needs maths knowledge but the blocks fit together in a nice clean linear way of input to output.
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I'm seeing a lot of folks making the same suggestion, and now I'll say it too:
Use Amazon like a catalog you browse.
Find a thing you want.
Go to the manufacturer's site (NOT their Amazon "store!").
Buy it there. Often you'll find coupons or discount codes NOT present on Amazon.
[Edit: I live in the so-called UnitedStates. You may not. Even if you do, your experience may differ from mine. Use what you can/choose to from the suggestion and ignore the rest. This is about doing our best, to the best of our ability, under what are becoming uncertain and possibly extraordinary circumstances.]
In manual memory management, the garbage collects YOU.
Found this #techno banger via tiktok. Very cyber.
https://soundcloud.com/nikolachenmusic/nikola-chen-lippo-pippo
Looks like the emails used to register for fediforum have either been leaked or scraped or something because I've been getting spam on the one I created just for the event. 😿
Hard to find time to become transhuman while I gotta do my tasks. Luckily humans on average have a decent lifespan to get stuff done in.
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Don't forget to eat your clocks this weekend. Completing the Sisyphusian cycle of how time consumes us.
Being a mortal is kinda frustrating at time.
A/B testing with zero user consent or disclosure is messed up. It's gross how tech people treat users like fodder with little care for their agency.
Code refactor? I hardy know her!
Updating my code to the latest version of #veilid
Hopefully the route instability stuff will be fixed now!
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Fascinating practical networking research that exposes the gap between networking theory & real-world implementations. Valuable for security researchers, network engineers, and anyone building custom network protocols. https://github.com/Hawzen/hdp
I'm ready for winter to be over 😭
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"Thank you for screaming at the void. Your scream is important to us. All our customer service associates are currently assisting other screamers. Please wait and a representative will be with you shortly."
"Pour crier en Français, s'il vous plaît criez deux"
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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
