Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
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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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in my opinion the answer is if a picture is worth a thousand words, you'll actually have to write those words bucko. "studio ghibli style trending on artstation" isn't gonna cut it. use your typing skills for something useful, and better yet, let me read your words directly. stop holding out on us
My setup is weird enough now that I might as well switch to NixOS.
Womp womp, I need to rethink this system because JSON-RPC can't handle binary blobs. Might end up using the same shape but with length prefixed cbor packets.
(joking) AI has taught me that you can do a "planning phase" before you write your code to avoid having to rewrite it a bunch of times. 🤪
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A 16 year old boy hacked an internal Microsoft system called TITAN with 17 trillion records as it didn’t validate JWT signatures at all, accepted ‘admin’ as authentication without a password and was internet facing.
They paid him $5000 and told nobody about it.
https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
Managed to order a shawarma in My broken French
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So I was testing #PeerSky with no internet. I uploaded a 2gb movie from my laptop, scanned the QR code with my phone through Hyperdrive, and sent the link from my phone to my Pi 5 over PeerChat, where I could stream it too.
With private drives, PeerSky gives you your own personal cloud, even offline!
Try it out! 👉️️ https://peersky.p2plabs.xyz/
It's tough out there.
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I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
venting, code troubles
This ass backwards subsystem is impossible to fucking test for failure conditions. 😭 Adding anything means touching half a dozen classes in really hacky and gross ways.
Maybe the real Torment Nexus is the friends we made along the way. 🥰
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When I need to communicate to someone the idea of a web app making an HTTPS API call to a server, I call this an "XHR". "So the app XHR's in to the server", I say. "XHR" is short for "XMLHttpRequest", an object which in web APIs is used to make JSON requests from HTTPS. Also, no one has used XMLHttpRequest to do this for about ten years. They use Fetch
TIL about Promise.withResolvers(). Seems I don't need to make ad-hoc deferred promises or import p-defer anymore! #JavaScript
I hope folks in the southern hemisphere are enjoying their spring extra hard as I descend into Canadian winter. 🥲
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This is insane. Here's a compiler that compiles to x86 using only bytes in the ascii range. It's how we bootstrap uxntal, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
https://tom7.org/abc/paper.txt
https://tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf
#permacomputing
Daily reminder that cloudflare's "verify you are human" thing is bullshit and regularly block loops alternative web browsers. If you really need it, use Anubis instead. https://anubis.techaro.lol/
Machines are actually pretty fragile and fallible compared to flesh. 🤷
Talking to" agreeable" LLMs will in turn make you more like them. Every interaction goes two ways.
This bug only shows up when I run the full e2e test suite but I can't get the full log when that happens and it takes forever to run. 🙃
LLM / local model "vibe coding"
Also! It ended up creating race conditions due to attaching listeners at the wrong point in the test (which didn't matter for this case) but I think I can modify the project's AGENTS.md to make sure it doesn't make the mistake a again.
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Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.
Joined Apr 2022
