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.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
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.
20. These "power gloves" are cool for doing gestures and game controller input. Kinda too pricy for my taste, though
https://udexreal.com/products/udcap-vr-gloves?variant=45992815034533
If the thing you depend on costs a lot of money to operate, and got a lot of "investment" (loans) to get it in everyone's face, it will inevitably screw you over once the true owners want to bleed it dry for cash. The alternatives might not be as "popular", but they're the only option to escape the cycle.
It's exhausting watching people constantly shoot themselves in the foot by putting all their energy into platforms that are doomed to screw them over with the exact same patterns of being cheap and easy at first and inevitably shit once you're stuck there.
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Daily affirmations:
I am not sleepy.
I got adequate sleep last night.
I will not fall asleep standing up like a horse.
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Bing has blocked Neocities and all its sites from the search results
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
#bigtech #microsoft #bing #neocities #freedom #capitalism #microslop
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1/ Congestion pricing in New York City, one year later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRTyKbkDUo
• Car traffic: −11%
Positive effects (many nonlinear):
• Broadway revenues: +11%
• Storefront vacancies: decreased
• Crime on transit: −5.5% (safety in numbers)
• Serious injury crashes: −9%
• Illegal parking complaints: −14%
• Network delay from traffic jams: −28.4%
• Excessive honking reports: −70%
• Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution: −22%
Even people who drive cars are now predominantly in favor.
Eyyy, my bsky follow count is the max value for one unsigned byte. Lets get it up to the max value for two bytes next 😸
Mercury is in gatorade or something cause this week has been ass. 😅
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So systemd-brained I have no idea how to debug runit on termux to see why my script isn't running 😰
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animals enjoy my company, and I'm never without wheat. here, take some. *I hand you a scoop of grain from my apron pocket* there you are—but remember, nothing in life is free. you owe me something in return. I would like a binary-compatible drop-in replacement for libncurses written in rust. no worries, I can wait. you can write it through the winter, subsisting on the debt I have just loaned you. they call this leverage, in the finance world. I have many friends in that industry—bulls and bears, mostly.
Everything is isomorphic if you squint hard enough
I don't think the hype around "state of the art" small models like lfm2.5-thinking is warranted. Even if there's a bunch of "benchmarks" that they score higher on compared to other models of their "class", they're still to weak to perform tasks. Like all tiny models they're prone to babbling and getting confused.
New tech term: SLoC, Slopped-lines-of-code.
TIL there's a way to declaratively show/hide `<dialog>` elements in #html using the `commandFor` attribute on `<button>` elements.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Invoker_Commands_API
Managed to remove about 5-6 gigs of RAM usage and 15% CPU usage by disabling the AI stuff, One Drive, and random Dell/Adobe crapware.
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Too many smart home devices insist on having lit displays when some kind of reflective LCD or e-ink display would almost always provide a better experience at a lower power consumption.
Maybe I'm just very particular about home lighting but if I do want to see values on the sensor hardware itself, I probably do not want it to light up in the dark and I also probably want to be able to read it from a slight distance without having to get up and push a button.
New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.
Apparently minecraft isn't great for making use of multi threading. IMO there's an algo somewhere in there to find gaps between players and to run their simulations separately from each other and merge zones onto single threads as needed (Say within 5 chunks of each others simulation distance)
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You are regularly being scanned like this without knowing it.
"This photo was taken with a camera modified with a filter to capture the infrared light emitted by a face recognition camera. I had to shoot the subject in total darkness in order to cut out visible light and allow the camera to pick up on the infrared beams of a face recognition camera."
- Pronouns
- they/them/it
- mauve+fedi@mauve.moe
- Matrix
- @mauve:mauve.moe
- Github/Gitlab/Discord
- @RangerMauve
Mod
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
