Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@hollie Oh, hm, I put html in my reply and it didn't show up.
Mastodon does this: <img src="http..." alt="text..." title="text">
Esme Povirk
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There are some serious reasons why you still need to be on Meta platforms: it's your last link to family members, or your support system, or you live in a small town.
I wrote about how to stay on while limiting Meta's ability to surveil you or use your information against you.
tl;dr Boring users, who don't generate clicks or behavioral data, are unprofitable users.
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/how-to-grey-rock-meta/
@hollie Via the RSS feed or website, text is available only in the "alt" attribute. This differs from Mastodon's behavior which puts it in the "alt" and "title" attributes. The "title" attribute is what allows the text to show up while hovering. The "alt" attribute makes it show up for screen readers, or if the image doesn't load.
Since alt text can be helpful even for people who can see the image, I think it'd be good if they'd include it as a title as well.
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.....oh.
Since the old metrics of "being visibly performing work" that were the oldschool way to demonstrate corporate value don't work in remote-work situations,
volume of code commits - the old KLOC style - replaced those as a social signal for performative effort to gain managerial approval.
And that's why llm-based codegen took off so fast - manager-class demanding performance of work instead of actual results, using the only metric they could measure: kloc committed.
So once again, "the thing you measure becomes the thing you do" comes to call.
@freya Dunno if it still works, and it's user css rather than an addon, but there's this from @mavica_again https://maple.pet/blog/fighting-otherkin-erasure-from-captchas
Realizing I don't really like the term "supernatural" because it implies that, if there are things beyond the physical, then they are separate from "nature" and not an essential part of it.
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"you're hot"
Cis People: thanks! Guess I just won the lucky draw
Trans People: thanks! The most powerful people in the world tried to stop me and i did it anyway
@lioness "finding and exploring a bunch of weird media" is a good dream genre
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**All symptoms are solutions.**
That's a mantra I've come to live by.
A fever is your immune system making your body inhospitable to bacteria.
Procrastination and addiction can be us giving ourselves comfort and relief we don't think we deserve.
Workers or community members who seemed checked out are often protecting themselves from a situation they feel helpless to fix.
When you see a symptom you dislike, don't suppress it. Understand the problem it's solving and find a better solution.
Currently visiting parents and shattering their temporal food compartments. Yes I would have a sandwich or some veggies before bed, why did you decide that was a time for sweet things only?
I am capable of mansplaining and this is an important component of my bigender nature.
@m I bet it's in the timeline json which would make this easy for a third party client, but I can't easily check right now.
Esme Povirk
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Software folks
Wired is running a short survey asking about whether you ever use AI in your coding
if you're interested, give 'em your feedback: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxqxzbjQvfD9xIcrub3d2n1yDWreJJL5PxGYpfjaw9fgnDuA/viewform
re: re2: convention posting //
@lioness The keycard thing was a problem last year. The fire alarm was not.
re2: convention posting //
@lioness I also had this happen but also had a key on the phone app which still worked.
@recursive I think to some extent it can be more a matter of how you want to approach it than an objective reality.
@recursive Yup. Learned this because of plurality.
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One of the most important things I've learned in therapy is that talking to yourself (verbally or silently) in the ways that you would talk to a scared child that you would offer reassurance, support, and encouragement to basically *works*
And it's a skill you can develop to have enough awareness to know when to do that: when you're feeling powerless, when you're feeling overwhelmed, when you're lost in all-or-nothing rigid thinking
I just recently discovered that it's especially useful when I wake up in the middle of the night, wanting to think about things, to be able to remind myself that each of those things are things I'll think of again the next day, and which can be dealt with during daytime
It's kind of fucked up that so many of us are taught from a young age that "talking to yourself is crazy", so we ignore an entire tool. Or at least, I did
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this thing happens really often, but the latest one that happened to me this week was with desktop icons. after an update, the selection rectangle around them looks weird and different, and the icons are the wrong size, they're clipped so you can't see the icon fully or read the label. haven't attempted to fix it, will probably take at least an hour. it makes me feel like the computer isn't really mine. it belongs to a bunch of nerds who keep making weird mistakes. a kind of clumsy nerd cabal
Joined Aug 2018
