Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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- Matrix
- @mauve: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
Cooking up some grant applications to do some #meshnetwork stuff along with #dweb and #p2p publishing onto local networks.
Longer term planning to deploy education materials as part of the setup so that communities can create #localfirst software without needing to rely on the cloud or even local servers so much.
One thing that's a TODO is figuring out how the economics of maintaining things work for places where that's a concern.
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New P2P service (pigeon-to-prison).
I think this article should have an actual photo of one of their little backpacks.
Excited for spring to come so I can start practicing with my little RC quadcopter again.
It's just a cheap toy one at the moment but eventually I wanna get into #fpv racing with one once I can justify the cost.
banking
Banking suuucks. One of my contracts involved using a custom payment service instead of my usual wise.com and it only gives me the option of depositing in my Canadian bank account even though it was being payed out in USD.
Now I need to physically go to my bank so I can do a SWIFT transfer to my Wise account so I can convert it to USD and send it out to subcontractors. 😭
Honestly if CBDCs can make this easier I'll let the gub control all my money for me.
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Did you know the Journal of Trial and Error is wanting to publish rejected grant applications? In their words, "We believe that applications often suffer from a highly competitive system rather than a deficient proposal."
If this sounds interesting to you, check out the call for submissions, which also has a link to their blog post on the topic: https://journal.trialanderror.org/pub/callrga/release/1?readingCollection=d235496a
Took my own advice and rewatched it. Still holds up 🥰
ai talk
Has anyone made some sort of LLM bridge/bot for Matrix? It'd be fun to prime accounts with a prompt of who they are and invite them into spaces to chat with folks.
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"it works on my machine (fullscreen chrome on m2 macbook pro with gigabit ethernet and traditional mouse+keyboard)"
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"Inuit are 85% of Nunavut population, & 70% of us have Inuktut as our mother tongue. Yet all the schools operate in English. Greenland runs an entire government in Inuit language. They’ve had an Inuit language school system since 1979. If they can do it, we can do it. 🧵 👇🏾
#LanguageRevitalization #Inuit #Nunavut #Indigenous
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1635299909158191105.html
Also, how the heck am I to explain what daylight saving time is to a cat?
I wish automated cat feeders could automatically set themselves with the moon or sun cycle to match the something closer to the cat's biological cadence rather than some arbitrary human one.
If you haven't yet, I'd recommend watching Shrek Retold. It's a scene by scene recreation of the original Shrek movie by a bunch of random animators on YouTube.
Each scene is done in a radically different style with different voice actors throughout and it's quite a trip.
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I've been talking with an academic researcher who is interested in speaking with people who have shut down their fediverse servers, for any reason.
I know it's a touchy subject so I didn't want to just refer her directly to people, but if you are seeing this message and you're interested, please DM me and I will give you her email. I did a 1-hour interview with her on more general topics and really enjoyed the experience.
(Boosts appreciated!)
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Lack of sleep linked to car accidents among teens and poorer achievement: When schools started after 8:30 a.m., attendance, standardized test scores, and academic performance in math, English, science, and social studies increased, while tardiness declined. One school that shifted start times from 7:35 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. saw a 70% decline in the number of local car accidents among drivers ages 16 to 18.
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It is truly impressive how bad google search has gotten at just finding basic information and I do not understand why almost no one is noticing or talking about this.
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I do not want Slack to provide a probabilistic summary of what I said. I don't want notion to guess what I'm going to say. I want to choose my words with clarity and precision in mind, and if people want me to take the time to read what they've written I would hope that they've taken the time to choose their words too
And I really want to take my words out of training data sets
Set my mother up with a Synology NAS recently. Lost a bunch of her files cause a cloud storage thing got yanked out from under her.
Now she can back her stuff up without having to worry about some corpo's opinions.
gender (mostly positive)
My mom is apparently my biggest ally in trying to gender me properly. Double hard since it/its isn't really used for people in Russian.
Then some anglophones struggle to even use they/them despite it literally being a single word change and doesn't even require using weird suffixes
feelings (positive)
I feel like I should share some more of my happy feelings on here.
Had dinner with my folks today and the slow relationship building we've been workinv on all these years is paying off. Had a lovely and chill time and felt pretty understood and appreciated.
- Pronouns
- they/them/it
- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
- Matrix
- @mauve:mauve.moe
- Github/Gitlab/Discord
- @RangerMauve
Mod
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
