Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Been hanging around with folks that aren't into tech and god damb nobody cares about or understands any of the stuff I feel passionate about 😅😅 So far explaining fediverse stuff is getting slowly easier

The fediverse occipies an interesting part of my social sphere where I mostly talk about work stuff (my primary hobby) and random rants.

In contrast I have some small group chats with a few folks from meatspace where I exclusively shitpost and share political toots.

Then in meatspace proper is when I go full goofball mode and also where I share my feelings.

It's fun having different spaces to explore different aspects of myself.

Every api call is a chance for them to make money off your data without your consent. Every stored file will get mined and sold to advertizers and LLMs

Gonna start writing notes in raw RDF and visualize then exclusively through graph layout engines

Absolutely we need regulations like "Don't create cognitohazards" similar to stuff like "don't let metal shrapnel get into cereal"

I feel like the software industry could stand to have the equivalent of OSHA but for handling harms unique to it.

Gonna try to quit tiktok. It's the last place I get a bunch of creepy ads thrown in my face and I think I'm just exhausted to have to deal with algorithms and tech that don't center user agency.

Imagineing an alternate reality where chrome got canned and google reader hadn't. Structured web and news feeds with potential logins for paywlls orbwhatever

One fun fact is that even though I'm a tech person I've been lower income until pretty recently in my career and most of my friends in meatspace are in the lower brackets.

I get a bit of whiplash when I enter spaces with people making six figure salaries rather than living month to month.

Though TBH I feel way worse for folks that don't have the luxury of not needing to commute to work. Usually they have to commute even further for even shittier pay and shittier work conditions.

They should at least be offered significantly higher compensation. Pisses me off that folks can't afford to live close to where they work and that so many employers are comfortable with exploitation and destroying people's bodies and minds for short term profits.

Bluh, I feel bad for all the office workers I know that are being forced back into working from the office after getting a taste of remote.

Being fully remote since pre pandemic has made me extremely against being forced back into the commute and the noise. Thankful to be working with other fully remote folks!