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
My cats are just too cute. It's amazing how effortlessly they make my heart weep from joy just by seeing them sleeping in the sun.
Call me an Enterprise Java Programmer or whatever but I really like method and variable names that say exactly what they are rather then saving characters.
`let routing_context = bla bla; routing_context.get_route()` is just so much quicker for me to grock than `let rc = bla bla; rc.get_route()`. Then again I guess the intellisense stuff would be popping up the type for folks for the shortnames?
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In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!
Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.
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my pronouns are they/them/../../../etc/shadow
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What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.
No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.
Just be inert until acted upon!
Who needs to worry about LLMs eating my system resources when `cargo build` will do it just fine. 🤪
Listening to Bill Jobs, fixin bugs and adding network outage recovery.
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Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION
Thinking about, if someone were to try to teach "Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" , the basically thirty pages of explanation that would be needed to make it make sense. It's so rooted in a cultural context… all the Minecraft mechanics you need to understand. Familiarity with the "Prison Server" concept. Enough knowledge of present day serialized media to recognize the video you're watching is stitched together out of shorter videos…
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There is just something about the way Gemini capsules all have similar visual language by design and that I, the user, am in control of things like which font family is used, pleases my neuroatypical brain.
The page author decides the content and its structure. I decide the details of rendering, for the most part -- though Lagrange supports ANSI escapes[1] for foreground and background colour and font variant -- bold, italic, underline, etc.
I consider that a fair compromise between user and author.
[1] Hot take: If you write a Gemini client, you have two options for ANSI escape sequences: You can either implement them, or filter them out. Showing visual garbage that's never meant for human eyes is just lazy.
Recipe websites are examples of how the internet keeps getting less and less useful.
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GOOGLE: Hey! Would you like to sign in with Google???
ME: No.
GOOGLE: No problem! Just in case you change your mind, we’ll ask you again on every single web page you visit for the rest of your natural life
The project itself has been a team effort and I'm thankful for help from my teammates at Hypha + various folks on the interwebs. Hopefully we can stabilize and document this stuff this month so we can show a full demo.
It's been a bit of a journey learning #rust and #veilid and #iroh but these last few functions were very satisfying to write. This code triggers a download of an Iroh-blobs based file from it's hash by establishing tunnels to peers in a group using a multiplexer I built using Veilid AppMessages over private routes. The code to get here was hella messy but these functions felt pretty elegant.
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tired: it's your own fault if the TLD your organization depends on evaporates for unrelated political reasons entirely out of your control
wired: shut down every .com whose index.html doesn't execute cleanly in x86 real mode
If there was a butlerian jihad we'd get so many more cool jobs.
Being a voice actor sounda cool but I don't think it pays anywhere near as much as computers.
My toxic trait is that I'd prefer software / libraries statically link all their dependencies and live with the bugs / security vulns rather than deal with constantly breaking software from version mismatches. 😅
There should be legal consequences for cookie popups with dark patterns. `Reject all` should be a required button rather than going through several steps where "accept all" is the only obvious button.
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Imagine getting constantly kicked out of groups because you upset people and somehow assume it is always everyone else's problem.
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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
