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
Uuugh, colds suck. Had to cancel all my plans this week cause I don't wanna infect people.
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i am available for software contracting work via my cooperative @emma! i have 10+ years of experience in game design and development on desktop/mobile/consoles, VR/AR, museum installations, compilers/language/VMs, front end/backend web development, and distributed systems -- among others. if you need software work done please reach out and i would love to figure out how i can be of service! you'll also be supporting a democratic worker-owned business in the process 💪
Itching for an excuse to use a quadkey index.
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Link via @psilocervine on Cohost: Some investigative journalism inside Unity's road to briefly introducing a company-destroying "install fees" policy last month.
The most interesting takeaway here is the whole disaster really was just IronSource, who merged with Unity last year, puppeting the company into destroying IronSource's competitor AppLovin at all costs. An entire art form is a pawn to be sacrificed in a fight between two adtech companies you've never heard of
https://mobilegamer.biz/fuck-you-were-not-paying-inside-unitys-runtime-fee-fiasco/
Fun fact, I am young enough that homestuck was a formative experience in that it got me more into programming. 😅
As a profesional todo list (with extra steps) maker this is a useful development for me 😎👉👉
It's amazing how much money companies have managed to make from glorified todolist / blog post viewers when that is such a miniscule part of what computers can do.
Watching Hackers with my partner finally. God I love this movie.
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There's a special hell for sites which have password requirements that are like 16 letters, one or more numbers, upper case and lowercase, at least one special character, and we disabled pasting/password managers
Fug, I think I am a cranky old fart type already because I like to write code closer to the metal instead of using all the fancy new tooling.
Maybe I should swallow my pride and install vscode and try copilot or whatever it is kids these days are using.
Also I'm still using nano for all my text editing so I might be imposing a deeper limitation on myself than most minimalists. :P
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Kinda wild that after years of people being stuck in zoom calls we still need to constantly be like "Can you hear me now?" or "Oh, you're muted" or folks leaving their mic on while loudly typing.
I am guilty of all these things, FWIW. >:P
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love documentation pages that you can just download as an html file and view + use offline
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Tomorrow's DWeb meetup will be hosted by @mai with talks by:
* Kevin Nguyen about our DWeb Node organizing work
* Bruno Vianna about DWeb+Coolab Camp
* @mauve + fauno of @sutty about Distributed.Press
* David Casey of Funding the Commons
* Guo Liu about ZuSocial Hacker House happening this month in Istanbul
We'll end with an informal hang on Gather.town
Hope you can join us !
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I stumbled upon Standard Ebooks last year, and they're awesome! If you have a common type of e-reader for books, you can pick up books from them that have gone past their copyright dates.
I read some Voltaire and Herman Melville from them last year and their formatting is fantastic.
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the EU privacy regulators are going ham on adtech folks right now, it's fuckin' glorious.
"users must consent before you can target ads at them or track them in any way"
"ok but what if-"
"DID WE FUCKING STUTTER"
Any e-signature services out there that charge per document instead of a subscription per month / year? I don't think I can justify 200 dollars a year for the 5 or so I need and I don't think I can keep making new accounts for the free trials :P
Gonna start pasting the entire bee movie script whenever a marketing chatbot pops up while I'm trying to read a page.
For reference: https://pastebin.com/raw/e90ZUNtD
Hopefully they get billed per word.
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Low key wish Github would stop adding features. The changes this year have made things way slower and more buggy. Now I have the pleasure of the "submit review" button not working anymore which is a pretty big chunk of my job. :P
It could be related to my ad blocker not letting them log every single action I take to their analytics though.
- Pronouns
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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
