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
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It's true that experimenting with this on your own isn't free, but it's also not out of reach as long as you have a general purpose computer (like, not an Android or iOS phone).
If you can't afford another computer, you can spin up a free, small Linux VM on your own laptop or desktop and experiment that way.
If you can afford a two hundred dollar expenditure and a few dollars a month of electricity, you can get a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny or a Dell Optiplex Micro or two and hook them up to your home network. These are typically sold in lots from large corporate deployments, where they are used as small, efficient desktops for thousands of employees until they no longer quite work. They are then sold individually for about a hundred dollars each on eBay. I run my home network on two of these, plus some other nonsense you don't really need.
Because of exactly what we're talking about here, these acquisitions are modular; you can get one box, plug it in, and experiment until you can afford another, then plug that one into the same network and see how they interact.
Ultimately, it's probably a cheaper hobby than, say, Magic: the Gathering.
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It's so many of our favorite people all in one podcast!
Listen to @mauve, Fauno, and Jacky Zhao as they discuss decentralized publishing on the latest episode of DWeb Decoded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqPomT1Teo #dweb
Just saw the new ninja turtles movie in "4dx". The moving chairs gave me shaken baby syndrome and the smellovision reminded me of sewage.
10/10 movie, loved those turtle boys. 🥰
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i want usb ports to come with a lil eject motor like CD drives, so when you eject a drive it gets physically booted out of your PC
~bx
Ahhhhh. Wish I could split into four people to cover all the stuff I want to do. 😭 So much stuff so little energy/time in a day
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Hi all! My first "neuro-focused" post 🧠 has to be these beautiful #PlaceCells that I recorded in a #NeuroRat foraging for cocops in a rectangle. #Hippocampus
#NeuroForNewbies ⏬(trying this out)
What are "place cells"? They are a category of neurons, first discovered in the brain of rats, that activate only in specific locations in a given environment. Each place cell fires at a different location, together forming a sort of map (#CognitiveMap) of all the locations that we know.
plot legend is described in the alt-text
(Edit: added hippocampus tag)
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No more of this ‘dot’ nonsense for me.
From now on it’s ‘period com.’
Gonna make a melee build in Fallout 4 with a character that looks like santa clause. Gonna see how much I can RP as a grizzled saint nick for this round
Angry about corpo games
Fuck bethesda for making you make an account to play a singleplayer game. Paid 90 bucks for this shit and now I need to give them extra personal information to play it. I hate what game studios have come to and I hate tech's obsession with cloud shit and user tracking.
angry about gmail
Also now I'm seeing more sites that are like "Oh you need to use Chrome to access this" which I thought the web had gotten over for a while now.
Especially annoying when I'm loading via a chromium browser that certainly has whatever Google-pushed feature they want to use anyway.
Did people really give up on progressive enhancement and cross browser interop?
angry about gmail
Have I mentioned that I hate gmail? Their oauth login thing makes logging in with alternative clients a huge pain in the ass, and it's regular login requires a bunch of hoops to jump through and even then it barely works.
Really tired of this shit and that so many orgs require using it for "work email".
The calendar is also a pain.
People capitulating to megacorps ruining open protocols fills me with despair and is a recurring paint point.
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Funny how people always go with the classic,
"If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide."
over a far more sensible:
"If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me."
Bluh, brain is super poopy today but I have so much to do. 😭 Excited to get some stuff off my plateand to build up a team to delegate some other stuff down the line.
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Just saw that #Etsy has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent #artist myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building #magpiemarket - a #federated Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps #artists rather than uses them. Please #boost this to help us spread the word.
I think I could really enjoy renting a cabin for a few days and going offline. 😭
Maybe once I get some last urgent TODOs done.
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Cory Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
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Alt text isn't just helpful for the sight-impaired. By reading alt text I can identify what the OP is calling attention to in the pic, helping me get the joke or social commentary that would otherwise be illegible to me. (Without this I'm like, I see a thousand details and I don't know which one matters to you.) #ActuallyAutistic
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So the first part of things is just a big, public peertube instance.
I have the know how, the capacity, the ability. The trick is that it's still difficult and expensive to host peertube for other people.
So I'm going to charge of it. Not much, but enough. We charge folks for their storage quota.
$12/year for 10GB of storage. $50/year for 50GB of storage. Other packages at higher rates.
That's $1/month for 10GB, or ~$4/month for 50GB. We'll charge by the year to reduce transaction fees.
Cheap, but not free. That reduces a lot of our burdens around hosting, while keeping the thing accessible. It makes us enough money to give accounts away when people can't afford hosting, etc.
It let's us really do Community media.
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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
