Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

"There's a theory that early Europeans started saying "brown one" or "honey- eater" instead of "bear" to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa "the faceless woman" because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber"

I have no idea who said this, but I keep it where I can see it:
"When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by some small action.
Barely anyone in the present thinks they can radically change the future by doing something small."
#DoSmallThings

"The Spiders to Worry About"

1. Agatha: lives in a small town in upstate NY in the canoe shed of a summer camp. She is a massive fishing spider and doesn't understand how shocking this can be.

2. Ricardo: Never listened to his mom when she taught them about good web sites. He wants to build one across your front door. Otherwise harmless.

3. Lilly: A tiny harmless spider who is NOT good at "ballooning" she WILL end up in your beer. If you see her shout "pull the line in!"

I think that's it.

✨ Your new public_html folder is here, upload html and ~your-site is ready

~ https://public.monster 🐙

I'm pretty sure I'll regret making this, but upload your public monstrosity and let's see how it goes. Some fun may be had. I'll watch carefully for now 🕵️

Great post about URL design. Our P2P web apps store information in the query string for easy sharing, for example specifying `?url=something` in the DWeb Scratchpad will get it to automatically open the URL for editing upon navigation!

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

@mauve Not many people know that the 16 bit value is signed, so you connect to negative ports. It's the shadow internet, for instance port -80 is the evil web, and port -25 is used to send spam emails.

me: "look I've made this in half an hour"

personA: "but it is ethical?"
personB: "but does it scale?"
personC: "but what about X?"

me: "I've made this in half an hour" :D