Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.

The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??

This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.

You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.

It's really insulting.

As expected, the Qualcomm enshittification of @arduino has begun. Expressif's ESP32 stuff has already been a better platform for some time... I guess I'll have to learn the ESP-IDF ecosystem now instead of the Arduino IDE.

Valve’s announcements last week about their upcoming gaming devices were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in the Frame, as it has been in the Deck. From translation layers to frame rates and preventing rendering glitches, we’ve been helping Valve push gaming forward. https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html