Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

a good thread

the root of all evil in the modern web is monopolism and copyright. the web started getting shit -- truly shit not just banner ads but really bad -- when the acquisition-as-growth monopolism started emerging with tech companies, and when DRM became the default mode of creating lock in.

rather than building new stuff, sufficiently large companies could just buy startups. and so rather than risk losing users, companies could just acquire potential competitors and avoid the risk

and to keep those users locked in, they could add the slimmest of DRM and turn webscraping into a felony

the larger a company is, the more incentive it has to do this and the more resources it has to do this

the solution is to break up the tech giants and repeal section 1201 of the dmca

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/110672711639616140

i go to mastodon. i complain about bug. rando says "treatment is simple. great clown maintainer is on github tonight. file an issue. that should fix your bug." i burst into tears. say: "but rando.... i am maintainer"

This whole "real names in open source" discussion is kinda amusing to me, because at one point I was in the credits of a project under three separate names.

The wizard will now install your software

Artist: MaximumR3x

#art #furryart #furry #fantasyart #fantasyart #fantasy #dragon

The year is 2030.

Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.

All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.

Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.

Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.

One thing I hate about my phone and localization is that I get to pick ONE language. That's it. But I'm fluent in both English and Norwegian.

I don't want American apps in shitty translated Norwegian, I want them in native English. At the same time, I don't want my local bank, gym, metro etc showing me their dubious English translations, I want the native Norwegian.

But I can't choose this. I get everything in one language. And it sucks.

gender is a scam invented by bathroom companies in the 1960's in order to sell more bathrooms

Back in the day, I felt Firefox OS was brilliant, way ahead of its time, and abandoned far too soon. But now a rebirth has happened thanks to @capyloon and it looks exciting. Exciting enough that I might have to see if I can contribute. Check it out.

https://capyloon.org/

#firefoxos #FirefoxOSFork

If you prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming softly
- vibrating to an internal rhythm
- levitating at midnight
- attracting the attention of the vine ghouls
- smelling faintly of sulfur and eldritch madness

They feed us poison(ipv4)

so we buy they cures(tailscale)

while they suppress our medicine(ipv6)

So I managed to add #ActivityPub to a static website I just put together. I will be modifying it so I use the same code on my personal blog too.

Basically it supports followers, and when a new page is added (like a news entry, or a new project) then if your following the website it will show as a status in your feed.

Even cooler, if you comment or like the status from here you will see that comment and status on the website. Yes I can block people if they abuse this, as well as servers.

Check it out by following @flear which represents https://flear.org

Its a very early beta, so the look of the site will still be heavily modified and I will add some more #AP support soon. But this covers all the basics needs.

#Fediverse #Mastodon
QT: https://flear.org/activitypub-support-added/

Consumer concerns about #AI
- What is it trained on?
- Is it accurate?
- What are the environmental impacts?
- What are the economic impacts?

Corporate concerns about AI:

- Oh my god what if they make it say f*ck?!?!?!

#llm #chatgpt #bard

It always sounds so pretentious or paranoid when I post something about this kind of stuff but I've been getting repeatedly intercepted on some of my VPN's exit nodes, with minor websites that I regularly use getting false certs signed by bullshit orgs. And when the exit node is changed, the man-in-the-middle certs go away.

So forgive the tinfoil hat posting but I do believe public notes should be made about this kind of surveillance, even if there are other conceivable explanations.

In this world of modern password cracking, please keep this in mind:

bottoms are NOT CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE!

but if you are going to acquire your password from them anyway, please use their nonsense spoken sentences when they're flustered, and not the keysmashes

Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.

A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.

They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.

#Politics #Capitalism #Environment