Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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might be a hot take
a "legal name" is an outdated concept in a time when we are all given numbers, you could just have a preferred name that you can change on a whim
@mavica_again I don't know but my first thought is price discrimination - the people who care enough to send the form are likely the same ones who are price-sensitive enough to make the discount worth it for the company.
Thinking maybe "password breach reported by some third party" is a good indicator that it's fearmongering and not actually worth taking any action or personally worrying about.
eating habits/food
I wonder if "fasting" is a common practice because most people don't wait until they're hungry to eat, and thus have more of a store of energy than I do and fewer ill effects.
travel, major life change
A week ago, I came home from a 2-week trip where I visited several east coast friends, and I realized I want to spend a lot more time with them. But I want to spend significant time here too.
So, I've started planning out how I can be away for half the year living with different loved ones. It'll take time to set up, but it seems doable, and I've decided to do it.
I couldn't find a name for this. "snowbird" is the closest but I'm going somewhere cold in winter.
@hollie > and < might be special characters for ends of words and need to be escaped
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LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at
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Two different approaches to debugging a software problem:
The Sudoku approach: stare at the limited set of clues you have, and think harder and harder about them until you find a way to deduce something useful.
The Minesweeper approach: don't even try to figure out the solution from only the clues you have right now. Instead, focus on finding a way to acquire another clue, and then using that to get another, and so on. Eventually you've collected so many clues that the answer is obvious.
Sometimes the Sudoku approach is necessary, because you've got all the clues you're ever going to get. But I think my new motto is "Never Sudoku a problem when you can Minesweeper it."
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"play is only play if it's self directed" has just set off a lot of lightbulbs about my school's mandatory sports program 🤔
uspol, transphobia
“It is not strategic to abandon trans people to the toxic rhetoric of an authoritarian movement that seeks to find scapegoats to distract from their insatiable appetite for power,” Strangio wrote in part. “What the center-right and center-left people who claim that support for trans people is [n]ot strategic are struggling with is not a question of strategy, but of their own confusion about and discomfort with trans people.” https://www.them.us/story/john-ewing-jr-jean-stothert-anti-trans-propaganda-omaha-mayor-election
@minego Now it's time for meds.
@minego It's not time for that yet. You're skipping ahead in my routine.
@mavica_again I bet AI companies could also trivially configure their scrapers to not DDoS the Internet, but apparently they don't care enough to do that either. It'd probably be less work for more payoff than participating in this particular arms race.
@mavica_again It's an arms race, but one where no one is currently escalating. Probably because it buys them very little. Yes, an AI scraper could trivially detect Anubis and change the user agent to wget or whatever. And they could scrape the very small portion of the web behind Anubis for maybe a weekend before people start configuring it to block that.
@mavica_again Apparently, they don't care that much (yet).
@mavica_again The point is it doesn't take 5 minutes to load Bugzilla anymore. If that changes, then they escalate, I guess.
@mavica_again Nerd-sniped into searching GitHub for the answer
I think maybe it's a deliberate choice to not make it any more complicated than necessary for actual existing bots https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/78#issuecomment-2764334672
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Trans Happily Ever After: The Forgotten Folktales of Trans Joy
“While people have been reading themselves into these stories since time began, there have also been deliberate attempts to remove queerness from folktales, which is why so many of us might have thought that queer and Trans+ stories don’t exist in fairy tales.”
#lgbtq #trans #transgender #queer
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-happily-ever-after-the-forgotten-folktales-of-trans-joy/
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“false dichotomies around the artificial polarization of complex issues into two opposed camps. You’re either focused on immediate relief or systemic change. You’re either practical or idealistic. You’re either working within the system or fighting against it.”
“What if the emotional resonance of specific, concrete actions is precisely what builds the coalition necessary for systemic change?”
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I’m not spiritual but the old religions had it right when they worshipped trans women
Joined Aug 2018
