Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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@picklish Post-dinner thing: possibly. Regular sleep times: yes.
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Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.
Mastodon: You actually don't need a billionaire at all.
Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that's true.
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@picklish Maybe naps are the wrong approach entirely. My energy has a tendency to crash in the early evening, and I don't know what to do about it.
@dbdean I have this bookmarked for that purpose: https://cassielabelle.medium.com/help-somebody-i-love-is-transgender-part-1-what-does-that-even-mean-905d98684884
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I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.
It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.
I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.
Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!
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@minego Anything specific that gvim is missing?
People who regularly take naps: do you adjust your bedtime afterwards? I worry if I go to bed at my normal time I just won't be able to get to sleep, and I don't know how to adjust it.
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So it turns out that you can start terminals in GVIM and manage them like buffers. I needed to tweak it a bit, but it's really nice to have this without having to learn an entirely new tool like tmux.
@BenPaddon I didn't read it as sarcasm. I'm choosing to take this as a good sign about my mental state, rather than a bad sign about my ability to detect likely sarcasm.
I am also glad you're enjoying threads, and I would like to be wrong about it eventually becoming shitty. I take no joy in people losing platforms where they were having fun and connecting with people.
@BenPaddon That just means threads is still in phase 1 of this: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Which, given that it just launched, I would hope so.
The reason I'm on Mastodon is that I expect for-profit social media will always become shitty eventually, and I want to be on a platform where that won't happen. (Also, I genuinely like it here. I can spend a little time each day reading things my friends like and/or care about and then feel satisfied and go do something else.)
@b0rk Synergy does not work well in server mode on X11. The way that it monitors mouse inputs in X11 is visible to applications and can sometimes break them. This doesn't happen on Windows because input hooks happen to work well for this use case. I now use Barrier, but it has the same limitation.
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With all new members we would like to remind you to make use of the CW (Content Warning) feature.
On your post box there should be a "CW" button which will enable a dedicated box for Content Warnings.
Our rule of thumb is that any content that would be awkward in public should have a CW. This will be enforced.
Unlike Twitter, your visibility will not get hurt by using CWs. Usually the opposite is the case as people will be more comfortable with boosting your content.
Thank you for your understanding 
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Back to playing Runner with feet, after a long absence, we'll see how this goes.
death, afterlife, plurality(?)
There is now a part of me that believes that when I die, I won't be annihilated, or reborn, or go to a recognizable place like heaven and hell, but instead my parts will scatter in the wind like dandelion seeds.
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⚠️ Hey #MastoAdmin FYI there is a Mastodon security update apparently coming 6 July.
The reason you probably didn't know about it, is because it was only announced* behind a proprietary centralized paywalled garden. (Not Twitter.)
Be ready.
* This is not a recommended way to run an #OpenSource community.
Esme Povirk
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Happy Enshitification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.
Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
Esme Povirk
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pride month is over, time for wrath month
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I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.
Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.
Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.
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My ultimate fediverse tips are:
- Embrace these specialised nerdy spaces
- Think about how awesome it is that people have such great passions and how you’re definitely one of them
- Wait, am I autistic?
- Let me research that for a minute…
- Holy shit I’m autistic!
- Oh my god this explains so much
- Oh wow I can finally embrace all of myself and share my true self without shame
- I’m going to post so much about random shit that interests me!
Joined Aug 2018
