Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
plurality question, boost appreciated but optional
@deci We all appear to have access to all memories, with a few caveats. We are not all equally able to find each memory. We do not process memories in the background, and so a headmate often reacts to a memory for the first time significantly later than the event. On one occasion we've noted emotional amnesia - the ability to recall the events but not the emotions that happened to another alter, with no indication that anything is missing. -Lore
I wonder if relocated snails dream of home.
@b0rk I have a thing that lets me type :Blame in vim to run git blame on the file I'm looking at, put the result in a new buffer, and move my cursor to the line I was looking at. And a few utilities for making worktrees recursively with submodules that are also worktrees (which I know you're not supposed to do but I do it anyway).
@b0rk My "ff" alias for "merge --ff-only" is because I think of a "fast forward" as something different from a "merge" and it.. feels wrong to me to use the merge command to do it?
Although since you mentioned long commands, I might make an alias for "push --force-with-lease" because that's the only way I'll ever bother to use it.
@hollie When I canceled, I called them.
Presumably the proposed "Click to Cancel" rule would make this illegal.
Plurality
@Lucis I think we spend a lot of time with no one in particular fronting and it leads to a similar response.
@renegadejade@hachyderm.io On E, can't tell because there was so much concurrent mental health improvement and discovery. (I suppose that's technically a yes, I'm just not sure about causation.)
Hypno, a little bit cocky but in a playful way
@Lucis I question the implicit assumption that trance is inherently a disadvantage and can't be an advantage.
streaming
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Continuing my Super Metroid playthrough.
@hollie Sometimes you've had enough gender for the day.
@hollie FWIW I've had appointments like that where I've still gotten useful info.
Re: d/s //
@lioness Basically our system's dynamic with Nat as the sub with no morals or limits, except we don't do kink with them and they've been inactive for a while.
plurality and hypnosis
Had some good success in an experiment (using playlists and a text-to-speech script) trancing our best hypnotee and then having them switch to someone else so the second person could experience the same quality of trance. We'd tried trance for switching before, but we hadn't worked out all the steps we needed to do for a good switch and described them in a script.
I feel like asymmetrical relationship should be OK? Like, for example, a relationship that's romantic for one person and platonic for the other, and they both know and are OK with that. Why do partners have to reciprocate feelings, if they can love each other in their own ways?
Esme Povirk
boosted
Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.
People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.
meditation journal //
@lioness I don't think we could do this. We can do intra-system hypnosis where someone else is managing the trance (but we only have one consciousness so they have to do sneaky non-verbal thinking if they want to think anything that's not for the hypnotee).
Might be an interesting experiment for Cedar though, if anyone here can do it it'd be them.
Esme Povirk
boosted
MYTH: your gender is determined at birth and can never change
FACT: your gender is determined by the witch who takes ownership of your soul and will change according to her whims
@recursive We are mostly legible in here at least, once you realize there are 46 of us.
Esme Povirk
boosted
"[...]RAID array[...]"
"um, 'RAID array' is redundant"
"yeah, that's what the R is for"
Esme Povirk
boosted
Google is too big to fail, and yet they seem to be failing at basic things they used to do well (like search) while removing useful features (like cache) and adding a bunch of crap nobody needs or wants.
Want to know if a given domain name shows up anywhere in search? Well screw you, we're not going to tell you that anymore, but here's 1,400 completely useless and irrelevant results that could possibly have some info (but don't). When the search engine could have done what it's done for years, and admit that it doesn't know WTF you're talking about and say "no results found." Now it just makes shit up if it doesn't know the answer.
Hey cool! My search result shows the term I was looking for is present on 7 website. Shoot! None of them are online anymore. How about showing us your cached version of the site, you know the one that was used to create this search result? Oh wait, no, you can't see that anymore. Why? Here's Danny Sullivan's dismissive and mystifying explanation: "“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”
Want software? Great, Google will serve a malicious ad on top that looks a lot like an organic search result but which is paid for by scammers and installs malware.
Joined Aug 2018
