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
The hardest problem in computer science is figuring out what the correct version of Ubuntu and Python should be for any given project to compile. 🤪
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Great post about the downsides of relying on #ai code generation.
https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/
> The experience of using an LLM to solve a problem is very similar to using voice-control like Alexa or Siri. You ask it to do something, and when it does the wrong thing, you're left explaining yourself in greater and greater detail until you might as well have solved the problem yourself.
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Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.
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Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).
But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.
Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever
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BTW the #decentralized #Ottawa meetup is happening today in a few hours! Come join our potluck and learn how to make a more resilient foundation for technology.
https://www.meetup.com/decentralized-ottawa/events/307548114/
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Writhing 💪🤓🤙
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The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.
The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.
It sucks that computers get too intimidated to misbehave around me sometimes because I really need to reproduce these bugs 🤪 Luckily my main one is never to shy to just randomly shut down while I'm in the middle of typing a long post.
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Good on Soundcloud - they’ve revised their terms of use to say they won’t train AI on user content, and any future AI plans will be opt in. https://musically.com/2025/05/14/soundcloud-changes-terms-of-use-to-reflect-its-ai-policies/
Trying ti get system logs on Android to debug issues can be such a slog. I can't just filter by process ID so I have a grep with a hundred item log OR regex to wittle it down to just the items I care about.
Been falling asleep a bit earlier latey which is great. Also been waking up earlier and not feeling rested which is less great. 🤡
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@courtcan Sounds about right. It's currently costing them vast sums of money. They're not spending that without the expectation they can recoup it eventually.
And even if you try to avoid getting dependent on AI for your own life, you can't stop your employer and every business and organisation you deal with getting sucked into this trap, so one day you'll be paying for that when their costs go up
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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
