Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

One of the interns decided to interview devs across my org about how/whether they use AI for development and what they think about it. They shared without names but with titles.

I noticed that the more senior a dev is, the more they’re likely to have low opinion of AI and/or only use it for very narrow purposes. More junior devs tend to say things like “it makes me a better dev”

TIL there's a thing we're calling, "pathological demand avoidance" that is probably a better description of what was being called, "oppositional defiant disorder" lol I'm also OK with just calling us anti-authoritarian FWIW

If I remove the lid to their tank they could try to run up the side and over the edge, but then I would see them. They don't do this. They either wait on the lid, flattened into a crack motionless until it's removed (then they make a break for it)

Or they get on the brush and stay motionless (not running up it) until I put it down.

And a new gambit? playing dead so I sweep them out with the graveyard. (!)

They keep getting smarter.

Dogs are glitchy enough I bet there would be some good techniques in there, dog circle around scent 47 times to write bone to registry and this lets us take over at another dogs state in a previous run where the pendulum swings were positioned for a gapless traversal

Hey All, I made a header only C++ library where it's 1 line of code to init, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen.

I call it thirteen.h, as it is inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days.

Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game.

MIT licensed.

https://github.com/Atrix256/Thirteen

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty every nation can set up there own #mastodon server to contact and inform there citizens. Journalist Will follow. There is no need to be active on #x It’s a choice.