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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If you give someone a program, you may frustrate them for a day.
If you teach someone how to program, you can frustrate them for a lifetime.
The only downside is that others seem to enjoy using their computers for work on weekends and I end up missing emails sent after my work hours 💀
I really need to learn some verilog and some fortran
Mobile apps made computing worse because they renoved the "undo my press of the back button" button. Wish I could do that for instagram 😭
I am very strict about not using computers for work on weekends cause otherwise they would eat evrry last moment of relaxation from me.
Yapping about tech
I really dislike apps because they're so segregated compared to cli programs. When you use an app it pretends it's the only thing that exists and there's usually no way to change it that isn't a pain in the ass. Once you can do some tricks in bash yiu basically get master over the cli apps and can stay closer to organizing data how you like it. GUIs with shared fs access are nice but it's not the norm and getting alternative apps for the same function is more of a pita
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Remember: If you can't just draw a line on your screen it's not a "personal" computer *at all*.
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People get wrapped up over the silliest things and call it “opsec” but here’s an actual opsec tip a lot of people slip up on
are you covering a mailing address on an envelope for a photo? are there any barcodes of any kind anywhere on the envelope? (hint: yes, there are.) QR codes are a barcode. faint small tick marks are a barcode. fluorescent tick marks that seem invisible in the photo are a bar code. and the bar code IS the destination.
Glad to be at the end of this big push so that I can work less nights and cook more dinners 🥰
I post like the small bits of story exposition you find in some scifi game
I wish the Ontario government covered "extra arms" as gender affirming healthcare for transhumanists.
I really want one of these backpack thingies hooked up to a BCI or a touchpad on my toe or whatever.
It's like using Windows but worse because I can't just sidestep into bash. Also code editing is one of my main uses of computers so it's extra annoying when my flow is interrupted.
I want to get used to using a fancy IDE like VS Code again, but I find myself jumping back into bash+nano because everything is just so much faster and more simple. I hate how many random popups and shit VS code throws in my face and how there's random keyboard shortcuts I'd never use that I end up fat-fingering. Like, I don't care if there's a new version out, don't remind me later just never talk to me again.
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Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.
Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. 
BTW for anyone interested in this stuff, come join my Matrix Channel about open source AI. https://matrix.to/#/#userless-agents:mauve.moe
Food (fun)
OMG the pasta I added absorbed all the broth and now it's more like "Mac & Radishes".
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Web 1.0: email@domain.tld
Web 2.0: @handle
Web 3.0: @handle@domain.tld
Food (fun)
Added some radishes to my soup for the first time. I cooked them a bit too long and they disintegrate when you eat them but that's kinda fun too
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Reminder to anyone who said "Meta wouldn't do anything to Fediverse, we should let them join!"
Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so it's users can't read about any alternatives to its services.
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807
Just remember, *Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them.* We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.
If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.
And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.
EDIT: *Please* send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.
EDIT #2: Some peppe are saying it doesn't happen anymore, but since it *only* happened to competitors to Facebook and only *after* people noticed, I don't think it was a "bug" that only impacted FOSS replacements, but a feature for Facebook removed. Don't give these Zuckers gaslight and think they remain innocent.
- Pronouns
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- @RangerMauve
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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
