Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
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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. 😅
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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.
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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.
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@Unixbigot FPGA development is a constant tension between chips which are easy to make work with open source toolchains but require hardware knowledge to integrate into a design you can connect to anything, versus designs which are relatively easy to obtain in preconfigured devboards but use proprietary IDEs so horrific they become a primary roadblock to your plans
It feels so good to not have to wait for a bunch of ads and "Recommended" content to load every time I load my homescreen.
I had my local LLM use ADB to figure out how to connect over wifi and override the launcher when the default one kept taking over.
Just installed this open source launcher for my #android TV and it's SO much nicer than all the BS in the default launcher that Google made me use.
Remember that the season is transitioning and your body is more likely to make you crave change. If you listen to it make sure to think through the tradeoffs.
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That phase of software development when you're preparing for an initial release is crazy. It's like packing for a trip when you don't know how long you'll be gone and the weather forecast for your destination keeps changing wildly. It always seems like there's something else to do, and just when you think you've got it all taken care of, you think of something else. There's also this feeling of foreboding, like am I forgetting something?
Not great being a side chaeacter in somone's paperclip maximizer speedrun. 🥲
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@elebertus all browsers had to do is not fucking deprecate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_manifest_in_HTML5 urrrggghhhhh explodes
Kinda want to start carrying a brick around when I walk.
Been enjoying hosting monthly parties. This month is sushi themed where everyone will bring some toppings and we'll all make a bunch of rolls to pass around.
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conspiracy theory
another tangent (this may actually exist, let me know):
how come the UN (or some other multinational entity) does not offer a search engine that is not tied to any state, to any government, to any corporation?
how come there isnt a search engine that is a public good, a public service?
and dont mean the code... I mean a fully funded entity committed to indexing and cataloguing the internet with no profit motive.
Feels goos to be getting back into my usual parts of the codebase after wresting with a bunch of other bits for a while.
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I will happily accept the parts of this proposed legislation that requires social media companies to reduce or eliminate algorithmic timelines, endless scrolling, functioning visibility restrictions and other controls that benefit everyone.
I actually think that such legislation would be widely popular, and would eliminate like 80% of the harmful effects of mainstream social media without any of the catastrophic impacts of forcing identity verification everywhere.
Kinda disappointed that one guy didn't actually fight a chimp but it's probably for the best that it got cancelled.
That clove of pickled garlic might have been a bit too much right before sleep. 🤤😵
Considering getting an eink phone for real as a "travel phone" so I can get better battery and not worry as much about losing it.
Is profiting from stock via dividends still a thing or are we stuck gambling with stock price fluctuations?
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Lol, the site has blocked me for… what exactly? Having a fingerprinting-resistant browser? I should probably change my user agent to ChatGPT or something.
Taking all my willpower to not say "figma nuts". Every time I review designs.
Showed my zoomer friend Invader Zim and now they're obsessed with Gir. 💜
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
