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
It'd actually be so wild if the programming industry had settled on royalties for written code instead of fully giving up your copyright to corporations.
One of the reasons that @agregore doesn't have tabs is to reduce the amount of vertical screen realestate being taken up by them. Especially now that I'm using my GPD Win 4 with limited vertical space I find apps like Firefox leave little room for actual data. Also web apps are so addicted to extra padding and empty space all over the place TT_TT
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Spiraling into control. Consumed from all sides while expanding into new dimensions.
#surrealart #art
#surrealart #art
Oof, looks like I'll need to create a new Matrix space to hold all the AI channels/discords I've been sucked into :P
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Old blogpost bamp:
#BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
https://rys.io/en/167.html
> BlueSky’s decentralization is a similar kind as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node, but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.
> “Neutrality” and “speech” and “voice” and “protection from bans” is mentioned right there, front and center, in BlueSky’s overview and FAQ. At the same time moderation and anti-harassment features are, at best, an afterthought.
5. Kinda want to add EEGs to my loadout. Maybe for controlling a cursor in XR? Biggest question is whether there are SDKs that work on Linux. https://www.emotiv.com/insight/
A decade of monkey patching and code transformation has made information systems my plaything.
Doing evil things to code for work. 😈
Transforming ASTs to add extra fields for data provenance.
Music to get me in the mood for sign weaving:
Instead of top down or bottom up I'm more like a throw a few strands into the problem space and then traverse between them and out.
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Good morning! It’s the first Tuesday in February, and so you’re all invited to look through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per xkcd custom.
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I won't be novel in saying huge tech companies are roughly what Big Tobacco was a few decades ago.
By now the harm they cause is increasingly clear, but everyone's hooked. It's hard or impossible to quit cold-turkey, and they know it.
So they milk it as long as they can, and engage in irrelevant performative actions (Zuck apologized, but did not offer any compensation) to make it rain as long as possible.
Yeah, excuse me for not having the stomach for the hype they peddle as a distraction. 🤷♀️
My setup. 🥰 It feels more dense but it's way easier to hold in one hand than a steam deck. Also bought the GSM module so hopefully I can get a data sim into it >:)
So far I'm really enjoying my new GPD Win 4. Having a kryboard built in is really a game changer. I usually use my Rokid Max as a screen since the Win 4 is a bit small for getting much work done. I like the built in keyboard more than my Rii 8+ since it has two shift/ctrl/alt keys which makes running shortcuts easier.
Sadly desktop mode in chimera OS runs in raw wayland so the controller keybindings don't work and neither does xdotool for nerd-dictation. I'll figure it out soon enough :)
Back in business! Thankfully etke.cc managed to fix it within an hour or so of me flagging the issue :)
Whoops, looks like my Matrix instance hasn't been able to federate since last week. :x
Took me longer to notice because all my puppet bridges are still up.
Hopefully it can be fixed soon since there's a bunch of matrix channels I need access to as well. 😅
Luckily anyone inside `#:mauve.moe` channels on other instances can still chat with each other even if mine is unreachable.
Screech. The anxiety of waiting for a thing to ship and not knowing when it'll get here and whether I'll actually be able to pick it up when it arrives.
After that it'll be the stress of trying to get Linux working at all. :P
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As someone in software for a while that has been the most surprising thing that Open Source did: It massively increased complexity even for small projects because "that's how Google/Amazon/etc do it".
Yes Amazon does Microservice architectures. They also have a few people for every service that knows the ins and outs. You have a team of 5 that now not only has to understand the problem but juggle dependency chains from here around the moon and back so your React App that should have been plain HTML doesn't fail while showing a basically static page.
You won't grow to Google/Amazon scale. It's fine. Just build a simple solution you can maintain.
Working on React/K8s or whatever is mostly you training yourself on your own dime and time to be a potential hire for some Big tech company that will fire you to juice the numbers at he end of the next quarter.
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The price of Huggies diapers went up 6% between April- June 2023.
Inflation, right? Wrong.
Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies, reported that the cost to make its products fell by $75 million.They took the money and ran, banking $168 million in operating profits in Q3 2023.
Now, new research shows that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023. During the 40 years prior to the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.
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Has anyone invented HTTP basic auth again yet, or are we still in the "every site has their own implementation of it with forms and cookies" part of that cycle?
I did it! Hopefully the shipping goes okay and after that that I can get ChimeraOS on there. Also! If anyone knows of folks I could comission to make fingerprint reader drivers, do hit me up.
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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
