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.
These 30B-A3B models really act like 10 3B models trying to yap over each other at the same time instead of one more competent model.
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remind yourself of who you are.
remind yourself of what you want.
remind yourself of what you're doing.
remind yourself of what you carry with you inwards,
and what you carry out.
and most importantly
remind yourself of the difference between your self and other, because if you let the other past that difference, the self will be lost.
then seal your intent and your purpose, and then you can engage with the demon summoning or whatever the fuck horseshit you're wasting six counties' worth of electrical output to do.
Is it too much to ask for a petabyte of storage in a convenient and cheap package?
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you can also install it on your own desktop!
http://olia.lialina.work/
And thank you for the Agregore!
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You will never need more than 320 Gb of RAM.
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@mauve Yeah, it's on GitHub: https://github.com/trypsynth/paperback and the official site is https://paperback.dev. I create these things called markers, that form a tree of where headings, links, images, tables, etc are. It also ships with a CLI tool as of late, so you can get all its parsers (legacy/modern word, legacy/modern powerpoint, chm, rtf, epub, pdf, f2b, daisy, etc) from the CLI. Or, just pull in paperback-core and call into the parsers directly.
What are y'all working on lately?
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Shower thoughts
Phrased backwards, if 98% of people with elite skills fail financially on the basis of having elite skills, financial success as a metric of quality is wrong about a hundred percent of the time.
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Colleges and universities use document revision history (or lack thereof) as one mechanism to check for AI use in document creation.
More technically adept students use Pandoc, Org-Mode, or LaTeX and a git repo, which has no in-document revision history when converted to an .ODT or .DOCX file.
Is there a way to capture git revision history and merge it into a .DOCX or .ODT file's internal revision history.
Seeking a defense against profs who don't know git.
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Several level nested streams are hard sometimes.
Sometimes the connection breaks too early even though the API says the packet got flushed.
Daily pet owner affirmations: "Hey. Stop that. What the hell did you put in your mouth?!"
My blood must have helped sire thousands of mosquitos by now. 🫠
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can you imagine being able to switch apps on your mobile device and it doesn't make the background app restart when you come back to it bc google decided that was a good idea instead of just idk hibernating the freaking thing. i can't
Sometimes only one side of a connection knows its been broken and you need some sort of heartbeat protocol to check if it's actually alive.
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PSA: if you are anything like me you've accumulated a lot of tech with Lithium ion batteries. Some of which is probably stuck in a drawer that you don't check very often.
I'm reminding you to check every so often. This weekend I found a swollen battery in an old Parrot drone I'd bought for my kid over a decade ago. These batteries, if punctured, ignite on contact with the air and produce harmful gasses.
Give those old phones and pieces of tech the once over for safety.
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Is the Tim Hortons Bread Stabber threatening or actually enlightened?
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little lessons from BASIC:
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single file programs are OK
if you have a small number of colours, don't worry, that's OK
indentation can help--like with FOR/NEXT loops
if it takes a long time to code, that's OK
don't be afraid of garbage output--you're not hurting the computer!
take breaks, the computer will always be there.
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
