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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A bad thing about social media is this pattern where a person with expertise starts rebutting bad ideas, and it’s great, but over time it primes them to see everyone who doesn’t hold exactly their opinions as part of a horde of goons with terrible ideas, because that’s who they end up interacting with.
Eventually their online persona is, like, Truth Gladiator. And that’s so much less interesting and important to me than Thoughtful Person With Useful Perspectives.
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i suppose this is how it's going to go:
1. google chrome bans ad blockers
2. users move to other browsers to surf the web
3. google, youtube, and a ton of other sites that depend on ad revenue dongle themselves to google chrome (and/or any browser that blocks ads)
4. community browsers spoof google chrome but block ads
5. websites try to detect fake chrome browsers
6. *tom & jerry chase sequence*
7. google becomes a huge fan of the idea of running only "trusted" apps on computers
Figured out a portion of my email troubles and got some sleep and suddenly I feel a bit less angry at computers :P
Computer software is not a joy to use. Especially if you care about things being "cross platform". The best program is the one you don't run.
Made the mistake of trying to give QT another shot.
tech vent
I think I am particulrly sensitive to my information streams being disrupted because I am very much a cyborg and these are my sensory organs that are suddenly being ripped out.
tech vent
All the graphical email clients suck and they either use gigabytes of ram or don't support basic shit like using DNS SRV records to lookup server info for account setup. Usually both plus some extra bullshit. I'm going joker mode and dropping everything until I have my own client.
I'd almost switch to Windows at this point just so I don't have to mess around with configs and re-loging into all my email accounts every month.
LMAO and it completely fucked my email client. Remind me why should I bother updating software ever? Every update I get just makes my system worse and more unstable.
Just updated my #SteamDeck and it turns out they broke the MDNS support so I can't resolve `.local` domains again. It's literally one line of code what bullshit reason could they have for disabling this. The cherry on top is that the readonly filesystem means I'd lose this setting on every update if I enable it manually
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"Most anarchists always wear black. However, knowledgeable intellectual anarchists occasionally avoid wearing black in order to subvert preconceptions about the way that anarchists dress. Very knowledgeable intellectual anarchists subvert the stereotype of how knowledgeable anarchist intellectuals occasionally avoid wearing black by never avoiding wearing black. The really really knowledgeable intellectual anarchists realize that it doesn't matter what you wear as long as you (1) hate the government, and (2) never use a coaster. And the extremely really really really knowledgeable intellectual anarchist wear nothing at all except combat boots and a black silk cape with the anarchy sign on it."
@Gmaclennan Have you thought ahout ditching hypercore oplogs for replicating at the sqlite storage layer? Merkalize the b tree and have sql as your primiyive and sync the source trees from other writers (still runs into paralell writers issue hut maybe merged can happen more efficiently that way too?
The real truth is I can schrdule more time for art in my free time instead of tv or something. Just gotta get around the hand pain 😅😅😅
AI (fancy matrix math) tools for cellular automata are cool and also scary when you connect that with cybernetics (not scifi, academia)
Low key wish I could maintain my current quality of life using art instead of coding sometimes.
Every now and then I am reminded that I am anomalous in my interests.
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@requiem Considering the nature of the bulk of my searching, I'm beginning to think I'd like a search engine that incorporated:
* 3rd party curated resources (i.e. like a library)
* 1st party curated resources (things I think are reputable)
* Federated search from trusted comrades.
* Last would be some sort of webcrawler. Maybe.
I know this goes against the grain of modern life, but the idea of instant answers seems to have poisoned our minds. We tolerate wrong answers as long as they're fast.
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With the enshittification of search engines & the boom in craptastic AI word-vomit machines, I'm starting to wonder if we should go back to making old-school public listings of our favorite sites, especially other ones created by actual humans and with actual valid knowledge contained on them?
Or maybe more librarians could catalog the web for us, since they're pretty expert at that kind of thing.
Because the machine-driven systems we've built are just... *bad*.
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„Firefox has enabled Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for all users in Germany. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites.“
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Most screen readers say "link" before each link, so links don't need "link" in the link text. For images used as links, the alt text for a graphic doesn't need to say "link" or "link to," as screen readers could say "link graphic link to Products," which is redundant.
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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
