Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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she (in a binary way) / any (in an I want people to be absolute goblins about it way)
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Finally starting that "bookmarks" site I talked about a while back. Decided to just edit HTML straight up, rather than come up with some system to build the site for me.
My thinking is that whenever I go to look something up, I'll leave the tab open until I've added it to this system.
Already finding that providing context for these links is encouragement to write in more detail.
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Hey if any friends are on other socials more (been hearing about bluesky a lot), I would like to follow you there. I have feed-merger to conveniently pull everything together, although I need to update it with bsky api (rss feed has some annoying limitations), and it doesn't work with Twitter because Twitter charges unreasonably for API access.
Probably will still only post here though, as much as I do at all.
Did the #my9games thing because people in a chat I'm in were doing it. The prompt I was given was "most influential games for you personally". Also I used topsters.org to make the image
What if we were both girls and we played a game together and held opposite sides of the controller and our arms crossed? 😳
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I have never come upon a paywall while casually browsing the news and thought, "Let me get my credit card out."
It's always, "I don't need to know that badly."
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Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
food
I just ate the straightest string cheese I've ever encountered. Every little pulled off piece was pretty much uniform thickness.
I am over a month behind on social media and falling more behind every day. I do not plan to make any attempt to reverse this trend.
plurality
I have created an in-system appeals process.
It's generally for small decisions (like "should we get up and drink some water?") where we already know the answer but aren't doing it for a bad reason, often just inertia.
The process consists of someone going "I invoke discernment" and then we use discernment to find the answer (which we already know), and so far that gets whatever's blocking it out of the way.
time management
I've decided not to schedule chores anymore.
In my free time, I will do what I most feel like in the moment. I don't satisfice. I have imperfect memory, so I keep a list of the options (trying to group things that are sufficiently similar). And I have primacy bias, so the things I do get moved to the end.
I suspect I have enough motivation that I still will get things done when I need to. So far that appears to be the case.
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This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! https://hashman.ca/security-101/
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New post:
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship
Looking into Nix again and this time instead of being confused about what it even is, I'm starting to think maybe it'd be a very useful tool for me to learn (and use on systems other than NixOS).
Hey tell me about your favorite webcomics
Surprisingly, this does not eliminate the risk that the maintainer will want you to explain or modify your patch. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/175
No one wants to review your patch? Simply become the project maintainer and then merge it yourself. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/174
ADHD
I think maybe the reason priority heap time management has been working well for me is: it lets my ADHD brain go where it wants. As soon as this project stops being what I most want to do with my time, I'll stop. And maybe come back to it. Or maybe not.
I'm not attached to the idea of completing it. I'm not going to push myself to get it done. I won't regard it as a failure if I abandon it.
I suspect I will get it working eventually, though, because the web isn't getting any less annoying.
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psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a job" we are holding down the entire science and tech economy, Clarence.
"a defining characteristic of autism is a lack of desire to share interests with others and a deficiency in theory of mind" I think the issue might be that you have never once spoken to a single autistic person as if YOU possess theory of mind, Karen. Now, the doors have been locked for your convenience, and my six hour presentation on obscure writing systems may commence.
Browsers don't care if your HTML is well-formed or not so this isn't surprising.
Still working on this. Got as far as the body tag and into the header of the page I'm working on. But, surprise, the HTML is malformed. They failed to close an element. So I had to add a rule so that, if an ancestor element is closed, it treats that as implicitly closing the current element.
I probably fell asleep right as 2026 was starting in this timezone.
Joined Aug 2018
