Mauve 👁💜

🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world
🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search

Like, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"

One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other […]

Hypha Co-op + DWeb Local-First Software Weekend Supporting local events to build alternative tech futures

The worker-owned cooperative technology consultancy @hypha.coop has been a long-time supporter of DWebYVR initiatives and we would love to thank them again for helping us with #DWebCampCascadia 🎉🎉🎉

dwebyvr.org/thanking-cam...

BredOS - The OS Baked for You BredOS: The perfect blend of technology and culinary artistry. A rolling release Arch-based Linux distribution designed for ARM single-board computers.

TIL there's an Arch Linux distro geared towards ARM SBCs. https://bredos.org/index.html

Radxa CM5 A High Performance Embedded SoM

Buhhh. I am saddened by the lack of USB-C video output options for the CM5 board. It says it can do it but apparently only if you aren't a hobbyist and can make your own IO boards. 🙃

https://radxa.com/products/cm/cm5/

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them […]

Screenshot of a desktop with two windows. Left side has a box for the "url to scrape" and a "save type" set to "hyper://". On the right is a scraped page for "Every reason why I hate AI"

Pretty happy with this web scraper thingie I put together the other week. Using this in place of bookmarks so I can save pages for later.

hyper://816idd9ddxq8asy68sya1y3du3nyipiszcr6tfyq66x47ha3jxuy/scraper.html

Feel free to creep on my scrapes: hyper […]

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Update on this: proper sleep and food is the opposite of bad. Who knew?? 🤷

Apparently lack of sleep and food paired with lots of physical and mental exertion is bad. 🤔 TIL

Lucky to be resilient. Unlucky to need to be resilient. 👻

GitHub - sandsmark/selectdefaultapplication: an ugly hack to be able to select default applications in linux in a better way an ugly hack to be able to select default applications in linux in a better way - sandsmark/selectdefaultapplication

TIL about "selectdefaultapplication". Now I don't need to fuss with xdg-mime whenever I want to stop VSCode from grabbing the default action for "open a folder" on #Linux

https://github.com/sandsmark/selectdefaultapplication

Some thoughts are the sort of niche mundane that I have nowhere to post them but my own mind. 🤷

I've come to believe there are basically two good architectures for apps:
- Elm App Architecture: strict tree of state machines
- Message bus: no direct parent-child relationships, everything connected via messages over one bus

@gordon.bsky.social Linux desktop uses the message bus approach FWIW :o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus

It's just something that I've been playing with... Simplest version:
- Components emit custom events for requests like "toggle sidebar"
- Sidebar component listens on window for bubbled "toggle sidebar" events.

Components don't need to know about each other, they just pub/sub custom events.

@gordon.bsky.social Oh cool I do a similar approach for Agregore actually. But instead of components listening on window I wire them up in a main "script.js" so I can keep the components separate from the data and general app shape […]

@gordon.bsky.social Do you have links to the "island architecture w message bus" approach? :o

@bmann.ca Yeah I did a talk recently where I compared ATProto/ActivityPub/Nostr so I've been a bit more involved lately. TBH I think I like the model of Nostr the most though I'm not very into Bitcoin. I'm not as into "global public square" concept than some sadly. 😅

One day I'll learn the secret technique of "closing your eyes" and "just falling asleep"

@bmann.ca Excellent resources, ty for your patience explaining things. 🙇

@bmann.ca Sorry just to confirm by "app layer" do you mean the appview for bsky or the literal client side application?

@bmann.ca Good to know ty. And yeah the atproto network is pretty decentralized. I just wasn't sure about the main bsky app.

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam

linux user: omg you got it working?

@bmann.ca Do all these relays work with the main bsky app? I was under the impression the appview pulled from the main one and the app pulled from the appview. Also how else are they managing to comply with government takedown notices in the app?

@medus4.com It's not private or decentralized though is it?Everything is public and there's a central point of censorship for governments to target in the firehose, no? The PDSs and custom domain names are a great start though.

I wonder if non-techies see the "ai" LLMs in the same light as scifi "ai". I feel like the difference is so stark its nowhere near good enough but I wonder if I'm skewed by seeing how LLMs work and the sort of scifi I read.

Spent a bunch of effort instrumenting the QA releases of our app to collect more logs and it seems to be paying off! Caught a potential issue that was getting in the way of device synchronization.

Peer discovery and management on mobile phones is a lot of work 💪😎👉

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It pisses me off that so many sites purposefully make their mobile wrb version shitty so they can coerce users to install their spyware laden app.