Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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A lot of people are rightfully focused on increasing their resilience, reducing their dependency on always-on mobile connectivity, US cloud services, etc.
So here's a reminder that Organic Maps exists;
"Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.”
Still a good idea to have and know how to use paper maps, but you can have offline maps with GPS on your (old) phone, too 🙂
🗺️📍
Esme Povirk
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
Esme Povirk
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The longer I'm alive the more I realize how essential grieving is. If you don't do it, you can't move on. If you can't move on, you're stuck. If you're stuck, you're miserable.
There's so much to grieve: people, relationships, projects, times, ideas... and then you can try new ones!
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Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.
@hollie Followed. I'm set up to read posts there with feed-merger (so it's not really an extra thing to check) but I don't really post on bsky either at the moment.
@recursive I'm not sure this really changed in my case so much as I discovered the specific time range my body needs to sleep. Before that I just got bad sleep.
Annoyingly, that time range is unaffected by DST so I just have to keep the same schedule year-round while everyone else shifts theirs an hour.
I love you.
A presumed result of cultivating universal unconditional love: I sometimes have the urge to tell people I'm talking to, whom I don't know very well, that I love them. Which is true but not socially appropriate to say.
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Just saw a post that reminded that basically "The grapevine works."
Except.
It doesn't work.
Often, Autistics aren't on the grapevine.
Or grapevine may be the people we live with, and maybe a couple more.
We can't use the grapevine.
Either to get word out (for book sells, product sells, or employment, or to receive word about books we might enjoy, products that might make a difference in our lives, or employment.
The grapevine is always over there, somewhere, where the crowds and noise are.
@m I've come close, but I don't think I've ever hit enter.
@m Hypnosis allows for turning it off/dimming it if you can get it to work.
Thoughts about writing my own mastodon client...
@m FWIW, having worked a bit with the Mastodon API in a read-only capacity, I found that side of it to be pretty easy.
Thoughts about writing my own mastodon client...
@m If it's just mastodon, then a list of the really important ones should be good for the small group, at least?
Thoughts about writing my own mastodon client...
@m I've thought about something like that priority list (dip into lower priority lists when one is exhausted), but I ended up just making a chronological feed that keeps my place and is finite. Happier for it. I think maybe "infinite social media" is just not a good idea in practice?
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Welcome to new people joining from 𝕏!
Remember, posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, retweeting is technically a cross-account posting exploit that they can't fix because we're using it, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.
There's no algorithm here! Literally none. There is no computer code behind Mastodon. Each http response is typed out by hand by your server admin in real time. Sometimes this means you won't see replies from other servers, but that's ok, other servers are full of losers anyway.
People here make a point of using alt text — if you can't find an image you want to post, just post a picture of your cat and describe the correct image in the alt text. Nobody will notice, or at least nobody will mind.
The first thing you should do is make a pinned toot with your pronouns, political affiliation, and favourite Linux distribution. Cisgender people are welcome on Mastodon but aren't officially supported, so some features may not work properly.
But most importantly, have fun! Users found to be not having fun will be given a written warning in the first instance and banned if the behaviour continues.
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Apple added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1. This is implemented in keybagd and the AppleSEPKeyStore kernel extension. It seems to have nothing to do with phone/wireless network state. Keystore is used when unlocking the device. So if you don't unlock your iPhone for a while... it will reboot!
In the news: "Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out"
https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
iOS version diffs to see yourself:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ablacktop%2Fipsw-diffs%20inactivity_reboot&type=code
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uspol, gender markers & passport safety //
I'm seeing a lot of messaging like "get a passport with your correct gender while you still can"
and, up front, I have no idea what trying to transition in a foreign country is like or if it matters what the gender marker on your country of origin is if you don't live there any more
but it seems to me that if you are looking at a passport as part of an emergency escape plan to escape gender identification related violence, you want your gender to be as difficult to identify as possible.
"give me the names and addresses of everyone who's ever changed gender markers on their driver's license / passport" already happened in Texas (and maybe Ohio?). it's a trivial database query to write.
I just don't think this is a great time to put "fyi I'm trans" into the government's files on you.
@lioness It's unlisted. 404 if I click the link, but it loads if I paste the link into the search box on my instance.
Joined Aug 2018
