Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
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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I for one hope that millions of TikTok refugees just start posting dance videos to LinkedIn next week.
Death
Guy on my floor almost died in front of me. Thankfully he came to right around when the paramedics came. Old age is scary. His wife was in deep pain at the prospect of him not waking up.
When I touch a website I don't really think of it in terms of boxes with text and buttons. I think of the data being pulled from the backend. This kinda opens your eyes to how much "validation" on the front end is just a flimsy layer of tissue paper. What's fun is JS-heavy apps are usually the easiest to subvert by sniffing on network traffic and pulling the raw data by duplicating requests.
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So since #Github has decided to break their website with the latest website once you disable #JavaScript, it's worthwhile revisiting gh-cli. At first it baffles me how gh-cli can be an 80MB installable for what I hoped was a thin REST client ...
... until you realise that visiting a Github repo downloads 6.5MB of JavaScript. Then to visit the issues page it's another 10.5MB. Then to read a single issue it's 7.5MB. JUST JAVASCRIPT. Nothing else. Per page.
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They Want You:
Worried
Stressed
Scared
Confused
Irrational
Impotently Angry
Directionless
Hopeless
People like this are easy to control, People like this stop trying. Sometimes it feels like, "What can I even do?!" Times like this I think about this quote from P.J. O'Rourke:
Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.
Small things matter, my life has been changed by small acts of kindness. We don't have to save the world, but we can make our small part of it better. A lot of you probably do this already, and you don't even think about it. Remember being kind includes being kind to yourself too!
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beware of Proton (mail, VPN, etc)
resharing this after they deleted the thread. I think people might want to know that the CEO of the tool they are using to protect themselves with is a JD Vance fan...
(the whole thread is on https://web.archive.org/web/20250115164340/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833074076075466)
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The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/
Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!
We updated our bot to keep track of chat history and only chime in when mentioned. We forgot to tell it what anyone's name was or what it's name was so it got hella confused and forgot how to use most of its tools :P
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If you are still using the Circle V ⓥ logo to indicate you support Veilid, we are switching to the Square V 🅅 logo to disambiguate from the Vegan/Vegetarian usage of that symbol, which has caused some confusion.
Please update your profiles, and thanks for supporting us!
10. This is like the final step in evolution for me. It's purely a controller meant to hook into external displays. Some folks have already managed to get Linux on it too. Main thing it's missing is a keyboard. If I could figure out a proper text input scheme with a controller and get that working with my LUKS encryption it'd be golden.
I love the lil "mroo" sound my cat makes. 😭💜
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At CES I stumbled on this Linux ARM handheld from @mecha Systems You can switch out the IO with a keyboard and gamepad in the works. What do you all think? VIDEO: https://zurl.co/2ebET
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Job opportunities
My organisation is looking for a Campaign and Membership Digital Infrastructure Specialist - someone who knows Action Network, and integrations like Airtable, on a contract. Figure there might be some of you around here!
Also, we are recruiting a Head of Operations, part-time, remote. It is mostly helping us work effectively online, tending to people, culture and governance.
Happy to answer any questions!
Sneak peek at my slides: hyper://blog.mauve.moe/slides/llm-lenses/#1
Making our handbook more accessible to people with screen readers also means making it more accessible to our bot. It doesn't have eyes yet so capturing diagram structure in captions is essential.
Gonna be presenting my Tonal Lenses talk at tonights #AITinkerers meetup in #Ottawa
Hopefully it'll be recorded so I can share it here after
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which is why am going back to one of my hills: software developers are artisans, some are even artists.
software developers and engineers are part of the creative classes; and by default, the working classes.
it’s why they need, more than ever, to have their consciousness raised and radicalized 😉
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I woke up the other morning and discovered that during my sleep I had transformed into a monstrous bug.
Here's what it taught me about B2B sales:
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
