Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

A rough analogy:

Threads → Fox News
Bluesky → The Atlantic
The fediverse → zines stapled to a lamppost outside your favorite queer and/or communist bookstore

There are not nearly enough digital screen-less devices around. I saw this incredibly cool pin-based display backed by actuators and thought it was so neat. I want more of that.

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg.

Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

I love the whole #cyberdeck concept but havent built one yet. However with all the #ageverification stuff going on right now i cant help thinking that if we're to stay online in the next few years the cyberdeck will be the only way. Everyone else will be enslaved by their #Apple #google devices but i dont intend to be part of that, and neither I suspect will you!

In order to use Kagi as the default search engine in iOS Safari, you install their app and it then redirects requests to one of the search engines Safari does actually support.

In other words: you keep your default search engine set as Google or whichever. When you perform a search, the Google page appears for a fraction of a second before you're redirected to Kagi.

As well as being wasteful in terms of resources, this breaks the back button in the browser. If you want to return to the page you were on before performing a search, good luck with that.

Each time you navigate back from Kagi, you go to Google. But the Kagi logic then redirects you forwards to Kagi which is where you just came from.

In theory it might be possible to tap the back button multiple times fast enough to avoid the redirect. In practice, I use VoiceOver and the screen reader is far too unresponsive to make that feasible without turning it off and hoping I tap in the right place.

All because Apple have decided not to support such a basic feature as custom search engines.

One morning, when Mark woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible daywalker.

UGH why is there time before noon?

I can't fucking figure out how to play zork

A bit more to this; if someone sees *me* doing something incorrectly, I *very much* want to be corrected. I am in no way all-knowing and regularly make mistakes, occasionally in a spectacular manner.

In a good team, everyone is open to improvement.

Imagine being a young singer in 2010, going to a music school and having them spend more than half the class time on responsible use of autotune.

You tell them you're not singing into microphones at all right now and you don't have a computer, you actually want to learn about scales, reading music, warm-ups, how to engage the diaphragm, voice box anatomy and building out a repertoire.

They tell you that before any of that you must learn how to use autotune properly and how not to use it, otherwise you'll be left behind.

All the exams are primarily testing that you're not using autotune to 'cheat'. You're not sure what you would use it to cheat at or what other thing you should be doing, because the only thing you've been shown how to do is interact with autotune. None of the teachers seem to know how autotune fits into singing, but they know it's equally naughty for students to use it and to refuse to use it.

This is what uni in 2026 is like.

A 12 year old child in the United States or Canada and arguably in many other countries can get the highest level of a ham radio license and theoretically build or service a 1500 watt tube amplifier. This exposes them to lethal voltages. They are however forbidden from participating in “social media”.

The problem isn’t the children, it’s the tech bro billionaires and their non stop harvesting of your data.