Mauve 👁💜

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.

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2024-09-04 19:50:21

I love wasting hours and hours on build issues and random failures on startup instead of actual code.

2024-08-12 03:25:38

Jeeze I really suck at chess.

2024-08-06 21:01:51

😭 The #rust borrow checker is no pushover. Brain turning to goo trying to figure out how to tie the lifetime of this channel sender to an Arc of a callback closure.

2024-08-03 05:26:45

Jeeze I need to curate a second less stressful fedi feed.

2024-07-31 20:56:07

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@npub1xjq…4rgh Browsers empower web designers instead of web users is the thing that irks me about them. The web isn't ours, it belongs to whoever writes the CSS.

2024-07-31 19:47:31

Hot take: The OS should provide declarative GUI APIs for the type of data an application wants to render instead of giving it graphics access and relying on a billion GUI toolkits with incompatible styles. Way easier for sandboxing too.

2024-07-26 19:40:04

Finally set up my GPD for actually playing games. Been in a Sonic the Hedgehog mood lately
https://mastodon.mauve.moe/system/media_attachments/files/112/854/482/885/887/378/original/8ca8a72df500c10d.jpg

2024-07-26 13:06:46

Had a dream I was at a small scale tech trade show and there was a booth with some AR googles I hadn't seen before that looked cool. Sadly I woke up before I could try them on 😭

2024-07-06 18:02:10

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i will say though it's more fun than outdoors these days since it's so hot and mosquito covered and everything costs money to do. 😅

2024-07-06 02:16:51

No man's sky is a really pretty game but the gameplay is so bland and samey to me. I feel like I need more novel stimulus in ideas than "go to planet and do the exact same thing as any other planet"

2024-06-26 17:21:55

I get frustrated when folks get angry at others for being "not normal". I think "normal" people often assume that "not normal" people are attacking them or trying to invalidate them by being counter to their culture. The reality is the "not normal" person is just trying to exist with what is normal to them. I wish folks allowed more space for others to live their own reality.

2024-06-10 20:55:50

Pretty excited by the fact that I can reach both #BlueSky and #nostr via bridges now. 🥰 Hope more of these federated systems get bridged soon too.

2024-06-05 21:33:51

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@npub1ajz…fcjg All within a few seconds with as little power or ram usage possible.

2024-06-05 19:56:55

Ordered a glasses mounted camera to feed to my local AI when I'm on the go

2024-05-29 21:44:25

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Sadly I haven't done anything with s expressions since I tried making a small language in it as a teen and playing with WebAssembly when WAT first came out.

2024-05-29 21:33:42

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Honestly, every time I have to deal with ASTs I wish S Expressions won over c-likes.

2024-05-29 21:32:50

I am a living parser generator. :P

2024-05-23 15:36:37

A nightmare woke me up a couple hours early today so I decompressed by getting #Veilid to run inside node.js via Neon bindings to Rust.

2024-05-18 06:10:51

I have been seeding so many "Linux ISOs" and "Big Buck Bunny.avi" (copyright friendly open source movie) that my regular internet speed has ground to a halt. I've got my up bandwidth *saturated* over here 😎

2024-03-21 20:58:36

I wish Element didn't load such a huge amount of data in memory and instead fetched it from indexed db on demand. It's bonkers how much is loaded as your volume grows.

2024-03-12 20:12:30

Thinking of the "trusted compute" stuff that's been getting more widespread and wondering if it'd lead to users having less agency over their devices a la Verner Vinge's Rainbows End where all computing has to be approved by a central authority first. :P

2024-03-12 18:42:55

#DistributedPress now has a product offerings and services page for anyone interested in hiring us to set up your #ActivityPub integration, static site hosting on the #dweb across different #p2p protocols like #ipfs or #bittorrent, and general tech stuff in this area.
https://distributed.press/services/

2024-03-01 01:41:26

High key I think corporate advertising is one of the biggest plagues on humanity in the last 100 years. A lot of the awful AI shit we're seeing stems from it as well as a lot of the shady data collection.
I feel it'd be for the collective consciousness if this concept were banned entirely or at least stunted to the point it's not commercially viable.

2024-02-28 23:38:37

Sad again about how single window applications are the norm. So much screen real estate wasted and so much multitasking limited just cause the app decided it should handle tabs / views and only let you load a single window.

2024-02-18 19:02:02

Everything about Apple the company pisses me off so much. They're some of the most abusive companies out there with how they treat the needs of others.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

2024-01-24 18:06:53

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@npub1eqz…p3ns Nice. I've been wanting to get into Rust for years but didn't have much of a use case. Now with the candle library from HuggingFace and my latest adventures with LLMs I've had an actual reason to write something in it. :) https://github.com/huggingface/candle/

2024-01-24 17:57:27

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@npub1eqz…p3ns This post by @npub1f6a…pnql is what exposed me to the idea for the first time: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern
I also have a slightly improved prompt here: https://gist.github.com/RangerMauve/19be7dca9ced8e1095ed2e00608ded5e
I'll likely be publishing any new work as open source on Github. :) Probably with Rust.

2024-01-23 17:05:23

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@npub1eqz…p3ns it has less innate knowledge of facts but it is pretty good at "reasoning". I'm gonna teach it to make function calls and traverse datasets + summarize stuff. 😁

2024-01-23 16:48:52

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@npub1eqz…p3ns Nice. I only do CPU workloads. Try running phi 2 some time! It's super low in resurce usage. Particually the Q4 quantized models.

2024-01-23 05:35:06

Having tested a bunch of #OpenSource #LLM projects, I gotta say that OpenHermes 2.5 is the most helpful out of the ones I can run locally.
I recently wasted a bunch of time getting Phi-2 to do some summarization work, and it just couldn't stay focused for more than a sentence or two.

2023-12-24 05:00:03

i really wish mastodon had a "randomized" timeline so I would get to enjoy totally random stuff rather than what people I follow are thinking of just today.

2023-10-24 22:31:37

Published a blog about the new Social Inbox tool we've made at #DistributedPress which makes it easy to add #ActivityPub to your static websites.
https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/distributed-press-social-inbox

2023-10-04 15:29:15

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@npub1u64…254l Interesting. Do you mean for hosting servers from within the browser? We currently resolve ".local" domains if your system has mdns support at the OS level. Also most integrated protocols have support for local network peer discovery.

2023-09-21 18:26:18

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If only I had a "perfect" p2p protocol that was resource efficient, mutable, and fully local-first. :x Also with http gateways and a url spec.

2023-09-21 17:48:57

Considering making some sort of digital beast that I can summon into people's homes via their google assistant. I'd talk to it in code and use pass phrases to access it's true nature.
probs jusr for playing my music and stuff?

2023-09-20 21:58:17

People are always like "what are the financial incentives for #P2P protocols??" but I'm here seeding like 50 TB per month out of the goodness of my heart and my unlimited fibe internet.
All Linux ISOs and copies of Big Buck Bunny.mp4 of course. 😈
Defs gonna set up some sort of TOR and Veilid relays or whatever. Maybe also move my server hosting to be on prem in my living room?

2023-09-20 21:27:03

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 Ah but that is for servers to get data pushed to other accounts' server inboxes not for clients to pull updates from a server.
E.g. a client application would need extra apis specific to their sever to be able to get updates.
I'm into thick clients over implementation specific server APIs. 😅

2023-09-20 02:40:02

Packing up my stuff and god damn I have more stuff than I expected :P

2023-09-15 21:14:45

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I'm pretty glad that the number of things I'm deeply stressed about had been cut down by like 60% over thr past couple weeks 😅 Sadly some things are looming and out of my control but at least I can check off some of the ones I can actually influence.

2023-09-15 20:36:19

My lease got approved so I can stop stressing about it 🥳🥳🥳

2023-09-14 15:48:13

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ha ha I think at this point I've been fully consumed by the beast known as Semantic Web. (though maybe that means I can eat some of it from the inside with p2p tech)

2023-09-14 15:44:12

I think it'd be cool if in addition the #ActivityPub client-server interface we had some sort of standard for accessing your timeline using Linked Data Framgents or something similar. It'd be nice if "what you seen on your timeline" was more of a client side concern and portable accross implementations instead of needing a custom mastodon-only endpoint.
https://linkeddatafragments.org/concept/

2023-09-14 15:36:04

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@npub1ncf…sl0e Mama mia 😱

2023-09-14 15:20:19

oof, I think I am approaching "caught up" on my sleep thanks to missing this alarm this morning 💀
Also it seems CBD actully works for me when I'm already a lil tired.

2023-09-07 13:46:51

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@npub1kr8…8hcd We need more Non-binary drone operators! More transmac cops!

2023-09-07 13:43:28

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@npub14kp…ez4u Oh wow. What environment are you in that you had to make your own JSON parser? 🤯

2023-09-07 01:36:35

I feel like humans being persistence hunters carries over in my hunt for making code work. I'm out here tracking the functioning configuration through the potential space of all possible code and sweating up a storm not to overheat.
"aha, the import didn't work due to a version conflict" is pretty much the same as "Aha here's a tuft of gazelle fur on this branch" or whatever

2023-09-07 01:34:16

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Luckily I am a wizard and have made NPM and Node.js do things so depraved that a mere typescript inconvenience cannot stop me 😈
The stuff I've done to make stuff build for react-native and cordova qualifies for one of those "This Place is not a Place of Honor" signs.

2023-09-07 01:26:35

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Now some dependency's build system for typescript got busted and it doesn't have the transpiled JS available in the dist folder. And of course NPM decides it has to preemptively update all my dependencies when I try to install an unrelated new one. 🙃
Is this really worth it? Hours wasted dealing with build systems to catch bugs that would be caught by a linter and unit tests anyway?

2023-09-05 06:06:02

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@npub1kr2…3ggc would be great if they got proper linux support for the GPD Win 4 first 😅

2023-08-31 23:35:10

For anyone curious this is what I've been doing for 9 hours straight: https://github.com/hyphacoop/social.distributed.press/pull/1

2023-08-31 23:32:09

Tired of writing text, I want to operate on content addressed ASTs in 3D instead.

2023-08-31 15:35:11

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@npub14aa…72lh That's the hope yeah. We're reducing the surface of the bits of AP that need to use a central server as much as possible. Right now the inbox is hosted in the cloud but it could just as easily run on your device and servers could acc3ess it over p2p if they support that or via http gateways.
Similar approach for the published AP data. Initially instances will load over https but we'll be adding specs to include p2p urls for all your data which some clients can load directly.

2023-08-31 15:14:02

We've got a new #ActivityPub implementation that'll be released in early September in #DistributedPress!
Instead of fancy frontends and databases, we're focusing on enabling statically published sites to add AP support via a lightweight Social Inbox server that they can register using standard HTTP Signed Messages.

2023-08-30 17:16:49

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@npub1j2u…c034 I wonder how much of tech company power comes from interoperability being almost impossible. Anyone can make a train or phone line but only Apple can make iphones that talk to apple cloud services. IMO in order to reduce their power they should probably be forced to interoperate more aggressivly at local levels.

2023-08-30 16:53:17

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@npub1fvf…vlru @npub1gky…xp6y I think it'd be great if ai generated work is not copyrightable and folks use it anyway so that more stuff is public domain and unmonetizeable by corpos.

2023-08-30 16:51:48

Gonna ditch all my programming languages and go full SQL. Style my web pages with an SQL to CSS transpiler. Query my filesystem with SQL. `SELECT from videos/spongebob WHERE season = 2 | vlc`

2023-08-30 16:35:36

Honestly, instead of an "API" or some sort of HTTP RPC thing or even a RESTful interface, I just want a database that I can query. Seriously, just let me load my data and be on my way. Everything else is friction and pain points.

2023-08-30 16:28:41

Not a fan of how sites with search features (youtube, duckduckgo, ali express, etc) have taken to showing results that they think are a "best match" even if they don't contain all the search terms I'm looking for. What the hell is the point of giving me options if it doesn't plan to respect them? Every year data becomes more frustrating to access as stuff gets "machine learned".

2023-08-30 15:22:43

You know people love to shit on Node.js and dependency hell in it, but dealing with package versions in it has been so much easier than other scripting languages like Python or Ruby. Even major updates in the version tend not to break all that much.

2023-08-30 15:17:45

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@npub1u6h…v9ag LOL I walk around with goggles strapped to my face and code using a mini keyboard. I'm pretty far from the definition of human though. Personally AR that magically overlays stuff is overrated, just having windows floating in my field of view has been great.

2023-08-27 02:05:02

When life gets tough, the tough get shitposting.

2023-08-27 02:03:45

Wearing my wizard robe with my spells strapped to my face (my deck). Casting evil spells (activitypub implementation) and imbibing wicked elixers (energy drinks).
Gotta wizard max to focus through this cold and meet my deadlines

2023-08-26 20:01:36

My house's cat is having lil shivers in her sleep and I'm giving her more comfort to sweeten her dreams.
Very thankful to get to hang with such sweet creatures.

2023-08-26 18:54:27

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@npub1fja…4zq5 I guess when I say "the web" I mean http+html from "web browsers". So stuff outside of that could either be called "not the web" or "new web" depending on framing 🤷

2023-08-26 18:14:56

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@npub175x…2fat Neat, what do you find better about it? I personally haven't had any issues with nvm accross all the environments I used it in.

2023-08-26 18:02:47

Heads up to any #NodeJS and #JavaScript developers out there: If you aren't already you should be using the Node Version Manager utility since a lot of projects need either an older or newer version of node and you'll have a bad time if you only use the system installed version.
`nvm use 16` saved me hours of debugging why Splunk's build tools weren't working recently :P
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

2023-08-26 17:28:07

Maybe instead of "a new web browser" I should be making "a new app" which fulfills some of my fave bits of the web.
E.g. structured content, small interactive apps, cross platform.

2023-08-26 16:23:44

Probably my fourth time playing through jazzpunk and it just doesn't get old.

2023-08-26 16:23:00

I think it's only just clicking for me that the death of the web is upon us. Instead of "googling" for stuff folks are searching on tiktok, instead of indexable forums there's closed discord communities. In fact apps and services are becoming locked within proprietary apps like discord. Paired with "ai" language models creating infinite web spam the whole thing is becoming less useful for the average person.

2023-08-24 16:18:19

like local-first software, the current state of the web is google-first software

2023-08-23 04:27:02

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@npub1alm…t4v4 I self hist my matrix instance and use bridges with e2ee. I've found that organizing stuff into "spaces" has been essential to make sense of messages. E.g. i have a seperate space for messages from loved ones and meatspace friends and others for different projects I work on. It's been a huge boon for ptojects that use multiple apps for comms (discord/slack/etc at once)

2023-08-21 18:30:46

I like to imagine that my spelling mistakes when I type could be read kinda like a computer that's glitching out every now and then.

2023-08-17 23:32:11

The fediverse occipies an interesting part of my social sphere where I mostly talk about work stuff (my primary hobby) and random rants.
In contrast I have some small group chats with a few folks from meatspace where I exclusively shitpost and share political toots.
Then in meatspace proper is when I go full goofball mode and also where I share my feelings.
It's fun having different spaces to explore different aspects of myself.

2023-08-17 21:08:46

Every api call is a chance for them to make money off your data without your consent. Every stored file will get mined and sold to advertizers and LLMs

2023-08-16 18:45:01

I feel like the software industry could stand to have the equivalent of OSHA but for handling harms unique to it.

2023-08-16 08:02:10

Imagineing an alternate reality where chrome got canned and google reader hadn't. Structured web and news feeds with potential logins for paywlls orbwhatever

2023-08-15 19:48:17

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One fun fact is that even though I'm a tech person I've been lower income until pretty recently in my career and most of my friends in meatspace are in the lower brackets.
I get a bit of whiplash when I enter spaces with people making six figure salaries rather than living month to month.

2023-08-15 19:46:15

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Though TBH I feel way worse for folks that don't have the luxury of not needing to commute to work. Usually they have to commute even further for even shittier pay and shittier work conditions.
They should at least be offered significantly higher compensation. Pisses me off that folks can't afford to live close to where they work and that so many employers are comfortable with exploitation and destroying people's bodies and minds for short term profits.

2023-08-15 18:01:08

Bluh, I feel bad for all the office workers I know that are being forced back into working from the office after getting a taste of remote.
Being fully remote since pre pandemic has made me extremely against being forced back into the commute and the noise. Thankful to be working with other fully remote folks!

2023-08-15 03:41:01

Just saw the new ninja turtles movie in "4dx". The moving chairs gave me shaken baby syndrome and the smellovision reminded me of sewage.
10/10 movie, loved those turtle boys. 🥰

2023-08-14 17:16:22

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@npub1j46…yl3a Probably not. My mental capacity is barely enough to get by as is :P

2023-08-14 16:52:15

Ahhhhh. Wish I could split into four people to cover all the stuff I want to do. 😭 So much stuff so little energy/time in a day

2023-08-13 04:36:34

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Gonna audibly yell "ho ho ho you've been naughty" when I attack raiders.
https://mastodon.mauve.moe/system/media_attachments/files/110/880/444/023/756/192/original/db4bb984ef8219a2.jpg

2023-08-13 04:29:43

Gonna make a melee build in Fallout 4 with a character that looks like santa clause. Gonna see how much I can RP as a grizzled saint nick for this round

2023-08-13 04:25:01

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@npub1jt3…rezs Right! Honestly I'm down to pay extra to just not have to deal with that shit. It's also frankly strange that it's required on consoles where I already need to give some corpo my personal information just to buy the game. Like, just use my playstation account. 🙃

2023-08-13 03:47:55

Fuck bethesda for making you make an account to play a singleplayer game. Paid 90 bucks for this shit and now I need to give them extra personal information to play it. I hate what game studios have come to and I hate tech's obsession with cloud shit and user tracking.

2023-08-13 02:52:56

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@npub1j3y…lgnc facebook replaced meeting people in person and chatting about what they've been into lately

2023-08-12 00:07:40

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Also now I'm seeing more sites that are like "Oh you need to use Chrome to access this" which I thought the web had gotten over for a while now.
Especially annoying when I'm loading via a chromium browser that certainly has whatever Google-pushed feature they want to use anyway.
Did people really give up on progressive enhancement and cross browser interop?

2023-08-12 00:00:03

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@npub17gd…a8lw I think the biggest thing I miss is the network tab and the sources tab.
I get you can _kinda_ get it with some cli debuggers and vscode integration, but nothing I've used feels quite the same.

2023-08-11 23:57:33

Have I mentioned that I hate gmail? Their oauth login thing makes logging in with alternative clients a huge pain in the ass, and it's regular login requires a bunch of hoops to jump through and even then it barely works.
Really tired of this shit and that so many orgs require using it for "work email".
The calendar is also a pain.
People capitulating to megacorps ruining open protocols fills me with despair and is a recurring paint point.

2023-08-11 23:10:47

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@npub15s7…cfsl Yeah thankfully it seemed to just be the street itself and I don't know of any houses that got flooded. Last year our basement didn't do so well however :P

2023-08-11 23:05:16

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@npub15s7…cfsl OMG my street was totally flooded until one of the neighbors cleared a drain grate. Cars were up to their hubcaps in the stuff.

2023-08-10 21:40:39

Bluh, brain is super poopy today but I have so much to do. 😭 Excited to get some stuff off my plateand to build up a team to delegate some other stuff down the line.

2023-08-10 15:29:07

I think I could really enjoy renting a cabin for a few days and going offline. 😭
Maybe once I get some last urgent TODOs done.

2023-08-07 01:32:35

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@npub1kjh…0pcc yeah, honestly it could be so much worse

2023-08-06 23:30:47

Wasted my whole day house hunting. Landlords in Ottawa are charging so much for so little and make you jump through a bunch of hoops just to ask permission to give them all your money to leech.

2023-08-06 21:03:09

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@npub1fru…zjc5 it pains me how the wealthy can't see pas their own wallet. Then again that seems to be a requisit for wealth.

2023-08-06 03:36:20

It'd be cool if all the chat apps could be consumed with fediverse bridges with private indexed activityfeeds as the consumer api. Then you could take all your data and dynamically view it either as twitter, a chat. Reddit, w/e else based on what you're feeling in the moment

2023-08-06 00:34:36

Walking around with my samsung dex set up chatting with folks and reading blogs was a success. Got my flesh suit some outdoor time to boot.
I look like a complete and total weirdo doing it, but the glasses are just a small part of that aspect 😅