Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Caffeine is to me what yellow sunlight is to Superman.

Without it, I become weak and vulnerable.

With it, I regain my superpower: being barely functional.

In my personal opinion: Instead of banning, say, Chinese companies from delivering infrastructure components like the EU is pondering with Huawei and mobile networks, the ultimate goal should be to demand open source software/firmware for these components and reproducible builds of all software components so #DigitalSovereignty becomes default.

@mauve oh this would be great for kids: burger and fries you hoped? surprise! it’s a healthy meal with generous portion of veggies. 😜

"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.