Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

There is a solution to the memory shortage. Developers could start writing efficient and optimized code. This may require some re-training.

First off, stop using multi-gig libraries is a start. Modern software is bloated slop, with the exception of some really nice open source programs.

The entire LibreOffice download is 348 MEGABYTES. Microsoft Office is 5.3 GIGABYTES. For WHAT?

#memory #dram #ddr5 #coding #software #optimization

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/

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New release is out! Now you can go to `agregore://sites` to see which #p2p sites you've created or loaded. From there you can explore their files or purge the data. https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v2.21.1

#dweb #ipfs

The most succinct and accurate description of the Old Web I’ve seen to date.

I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

I'm legit really curious what will happen should bleeding-edge memory, GPUs, and hard drives become inaccessible for regular consumers. Speculating, my hunch is:

1. Most consumers will simply not upgrade unless things break
2. Instead of buying new, more people will buy refurbished instead
3. This will open up the market for new vendors selling hardware 5-10yrs behind the bleeding edge
4. We'll start hearing more about performance-per-dollar