Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!

and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.

DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP

like, even if the AI can do programming for you, which... is debatable.

It's not going to do it for free. They're selling you the ability to program. One of the main reasons you should learn to program is so no one can take it from you, or charge a fee for doing it.

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

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A rough analogy:

Threads → Fox News
Bluesky → The Atlantic
The fediverse → zines stapled to a lamppost outside your favorite queer and/or communist bookstore

There are not nearly enough digital screen-less devices around. I saw this incredibly cool pin-based display backed by actuators and thought it was so neat. I want more of that.

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg.

Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

I love the whole #cyberdeck concept but havent built one yet. However with all the #ageverification stuff going on right now i cant help thinking that if we're to stay online in the next few years the cyberdeck will be the only way. Everyone else will be enslaved by their #Apple #google devices but i dont intend to be part of that, and neither I suspect will you!

In order to use Kagi as the default search engine in iOS Safari, you install their app and it then redirects requests to one of the search engines Safari does actually support.

In other words: you keep your default search engine set as Google or whichever. When you perform a search, the Google page appears for a fraction of a second before you're redirected to Kagi.

As well as being wasteful in terms of resources, this breaks the back button in the browser. If you want to return to the page you were on before performing a search, good luck with that.

Each time you navigate back from Kagi, you go to Google. But the Kagi logic then redirects you forwards to Kagi which is where you just came from.

In theory it might be possible to tap the back button multiple times fast enough to avoid the redirect. In practice, I use VoiceOver and the screen reader is far too unresponsive to make that feasible without turning it off and hoping I tap in the right place.

All because Apple have decided not to support such a basic feature as custom search engines.

One morning, when Mark woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible daywalker.

UGH why is there time before noon?