Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

Main reason I'm going this route is that the sherpa-onnx library is supposed to be able to use my Rockchip NPU on my machine to speed things up.

https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/blob/master/nodejs-examples/test-offline-tts-pocket-en.js

I think I've gotten to the point where the default voices in espeak-ng aren't cutting it anymore. Gonna try cloning my own voice to speak back to me via sherpa-onnx and pocket TTS.

Cool side effect of running a battery powered cyberdeck is I can give a number for how much percentage bits of work take. e.g. compiling a big ish C++ project took like 20% of my battery

Thankful to live in a city with a thriving music scene. We're not fancy, but it's plentiful.

Today is a whatever this genre is sort of day.

soundcloud.com/strangputation/oooo-ooo-oo-o_o-o-oo-oo-oo_o_o

I love Ottawa and all that but somehow it's always cloudy whenever there's some sort of sky phenomena. Kinda miffed I missed out on meteor shower viewing last night.

Gonna start calling monogamous people singlephiles as a slur. 🤪

Snap! Just learned about this new #JavaScript feature called `using` that lets you dispose of resources after you exit a block. Good alternative for needing a `try - finally` expression. Feels like Python in a good way.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

I love how my timeline is full of conflicting opinions on a lot of issues. It's fun seeing the similarities within divergence and the divergence within the similar.

My cat just came into my office and started meowing until I followed her to the bedroom where she told me it was time for a nap. Sorry skitty, I gotta merge two highly divergent branches of a codebase. 😿

#techno sort of morning.

https://soundcloud.com/hvh-dreams/overdose-casino-by-mike-klubnika

spending some time on my local model LLM agent since my approach is way more screen reader friendly than pi.dev 🤓

Input device on my docked #cyberdeck controlling a terminal ssh'd into my portable deck in the other room that's pumping audio into my bone conducting headset for my terminal screen reader. Pulling in services over the local #p2p net.