Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."
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Anyway, talking to yourself is awesome and everyone should do it. I’d especially recommend it if you are the kind of person who marvels at how clever everyone else is and figures things out more when talking to people - you might just process things better verbally.
Though I guess that is mostly thinking out loud, but it can be a conversation too. It’s fine, you don’t have to have other people in your head to do it.
Less than a year ago, we set out to understand and repair ourselves. We didn't expect to finish any time soon, but now our core is healed, and we're not sure whether we have any trauma left. We'll keep looking, exploring, and growing regardless.
Always ask: what are you longing for? What are you putting off? What can't you imagine changing because you don't remember ever experiencing the world another way? There are limits, yes, but they may not be where you think.
-Pandora
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I'm shy at first, but once you get to know me, I continue to be shy because social interaction is overwhelming and draining.
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Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉
It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.
We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.
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Day 237 The Second Arrow https://lemmy.world/post/3806041
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Okay I’m just going to say it: all non-diagetic video advertising is ableist and I’m done pretending it’s only a mere annoyance.
You’re going to suddenly interrupt what I was focusing on with something super dissonant, loud, bright - I’m going to have a bad reaction every time. It’s overwhelming, it triggers my tics, I’m over it. Stop.
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Reposting with alt and attribution
Source: https://trash-and-trash-accessories.tumblr.com/post/724016105574858752/i-know-several-afab-nonbinary-people-who-as-soon
@sota767 If you like fiber so much, maybe you should eat an orange. (sorry, I'm in a weird mood right now)
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Every #NYT story lately.
I have no idea where this image originated and take no credit.
re3: psych/neuro //
@lioness Yes. I'm asking how it's possible for that first thing to work.
re: psychology/neuroscience lay question, food ref //
@lioness I think so, but I'm not sure where you're doing with this.
psychology/neuroscience lay question
It's possible for the brain to physically modify itself (neuroplasticity) in directed ways, right? I.e. following some instruction/idea, rather than just repetition of certain pathways.
Does anyone have a theory for how the brain does that (if that's what happens)?
@hollie Yes and here's NIST backing you up: https://www.netsec.news/summary-of-the-nist-password-recommendations-for-2021/
I may have said this before, but I wonder how much of what we think of as a part of being a person is actually the result of mimicking behavior that was demonstrated to us.
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
Op-ed: PC makers used to need to bring their own add-on bloatware—no longer.
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I hate when I come up with a term I like and then I google it and find out it has a bunch of associated baggage I don't want.
plurality, mental health (~)
Individual sysmates having their own mental health problems would've been impossible to understand before knowing we were a system. What do you even do with "I have these issues but only for a period of less than a day every couple of months or so"?
But hey, now that we know, we can help each other through this stuff.
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Heard the story of the girl throwing starfish into the ocean? A man watching her says "don't you know there are miles of beach and you can't make a difference?"
The girl bends down and scoops up another starfish and gently throws it into the ocean, turns to the man and says "it made a difference to that one".
I often think of this story when world events make me feel powerless. I can't help everyone, but I can help *someone*.
So... if anyone needs me to throw them into the sea, I'm here.
asking for music recs! //
@lioness wall of sound + no English lyrics kinda rules out the vast majority of music I listen to. SEXY-SYNTHESIZER might fit, but by virtue of being Japanese there's occasionally English mixed in, and also silence is occasionally used to change things up. But just in case it is what you're looking for: https://sexy-synthesizer.bandcamp.com/track/sky-high
Joined Aug 2018
