Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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meet the merge
(curious to know if this one is confusing, I think it's an unusual explanation of merge)
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
@lioness yt-dlp usually does a good job of this
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New: Firefox users have reported an "artificial" 5-second delay when they try to load YouTube videos that is magically fixed if they use Chrome, which has been going viral in a few different places. I asked Google what is going on. They
1) Didn't deny the artificial wait time is happening
2) Said it's part of its war on ad blockers, not targeted at Firefox
Mozilla also told me no indication this is targeted at Firefox
@mavica_again When we have trouble, we usually front-trigger Kaedyn, who unlike most of us is good at executive functioning. Unfortunately, this solution requires having someone like that available in your brain.
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Israel has questions to answer after WHO's profoundly worrying Gaza hospital report | World News | Sky News
As the normally pro-Israeli government Jerusalem Post has put it, Israel has presented a much weaker case to the world about Hamas's presence at the hospital than expected.
streaming
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Yep, still playing BIT.TRIP Runner.
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One of the thing I’ve learned about the consequences of bullying is that when people tell you things like “I’m pretty bad at math” or “computers aren’t for me” or “I don’t really get art or fashion” and you talk to them for a bit what you often find - not always, but often - what that really means is “somebody treated me like shit for trying to like this when I was 9.”
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there's no reason to use Google Chrome
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AI with 90% error rate forces elderly out of rehab, nursing homes, suit claims
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
@mavica_again I can't conceptualize myself as being my body and not just "in" it. -iore
@mavica_again I cannot grasp the alternative to this. -iore
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curious about something. wanna see how big the #GameDev community on mastodon is. are you a game developer?
@eniko I've dabbled occasionally but I don't feel it's enough to apply the label even of hobbyist but I'm at least some kinda gamedev so I picked "something else".
Windows is really inconsistent about using 24-hour time formats when they're set.
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Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.
I'm back from my trip btw, sadly cut short so I didn't get to go visit any friends, but the convention was great.
Setting all my clocks to UTC because fuck time changes and fuck time zones.
Finished my first ever link to the past randomizer seed during my SGlive trip. It was an overworld+door+entrance shuffle. Probably would've been much faster if I took notes.
Joined Aug 2018
