Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
question to (presumably?) neurotypicals, please Boost <3
@oddtail Unfortunately, I have no idea how to teach this. Apparently I learned it somehow as a child because I remember once being overwhelmed by noise and unable to do anything about it. I suspect it's a form of dissociation and that neurotypicals dissociate way more than they admit.
For me, it was tied to plurality (one specific headmate held the unfiltered mode), but I've since learned to decouple the mode switch from headmates.
question to (presumably?) neurotypicals, please Boost <3
@oddtail At this point the "filtered" mode is the default for me, and unfiltered takes conscious effort. Also, my filters will automatically switch on if I am overwhelmed.
My conscious input on what should be filtered out is limited. However, in some cases depending on what I'd like to "ignore", focusing my attention elsewhere might cause my unconscious filter to drop the unwanted stimulus.
question to (presumably?) neurotypicals, please Boost <3
@oddtail I've experienced multiple levels of filtering, apparently one that was my default and one I somehow learned.
Default: Basically everything I perceive reaches my consciousness. I cannot filter out noise even if I am overwhelmed.
Learned: The vast majority of stimuli (visual, audio, proprioception) does not reach my conscious awareness. There is an unconscious filter that decides what is worth noticing.
Esme Povirk
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For the record:
- The *cryptography* in Signal is probably fine; a practical attack would be a big surprise.
- Signal lacks specific features required for classified systems, such as security labels, certified identities, revocation, etc.
- Signal runs on uncontrolled, insecure platforms connected to the Internet, rendering it unsuitable for classified even if it had the above features.
- Adding classified features to Signal would make it unusable for most purposes for which it's intended.
the moment I realized how absolutely bonkers hyperrogue sounds to people who haven't played it
"a dragon followed me into the dungeon. but I had orb of domination so the dragon was an ally. so I tried to get it to dive the dungeon with me because it could fly out, but it wouldn't stop attacking the unkillable skeletons so I had to just leave"
@mavica_again I like that simply by being here I'm making it harder for them. Friends joining fedi will notice if they can't follow me. If I see a friend talking about thebadspace I get to say "the instance I'm on is blocked by them" (this happened maybe once I think?)
Esme Povirk
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OH: *looks at a lesbian couple* so, which one of you is the car and which one is the cdr
Esme Povirk
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:agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag:
Here’s a few ideas I had to make electric cars better.
Firstly, we should give electric cars dedicated lanes. As these vehicles need to be promoted over fossil fuelled counterparts, giving them their own lanes makes them seem more exclusive.
Secondly, we could then outsource the electrical power to an overhead cable system, and each car could have a pickup.
This would mean each car would then become lighter as they wouldn’t need batteries. Plus we could drive even more power to each vehicle, therefore increasing the efficiency.
Thirdly, we should replace the low-resistance rubber tyres on electric vehicles with steel, and lay “tracks” in their dedicated lanes.
Now, with all these out of the way, we have made these vehicles much more efficient. Therefore we have capacity to actually make these vehicles bigger so they can carry more people. This would make them EVEN MORE efficient because now each vehicle is carrying more people per kW of electricity used, now that we have outsourced the power supply.
In fact, this leads to another efficiency: we could link these larger electric vehicles together, and only the lead vehicle needs to have a driver, freeing up the other drivers. This reduces the overall drag on the vehicles in a “chain” thereby making it EVEN more efficient to drive.
Any takers on my idea? We can call it an “steelroader” due to the steel tracks involved.
Esme Povirk
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It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html
Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. 
@lewurm I didn't know anyone was using LLVM at all. I had the impression that it was an incomplete experiment.
@lewurm That's the one. I ran the tests with the optimization disabled, and it's still broken. I'm like 90% sure it's spilling doubles into 4-byte stack slots.
Spent most of my work day yesterday debugging Mono's JIT in an arm32v5 environment. Conclusion: it's super broken and needs a lot of work. Also I'm going to do it because if Debian still supports it then so can I.
Covid - Masking - free Atlantic article
@hollie Maybe it's my neurospice or where I am physically and socially, but I don't seem to feel pressure against it the way others apparently do.
Esme Povirk
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Everything you need to know about bird flu
H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bird-flu/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Why does the most fun way to play a game always involve so much bookkeeping?
re: computer interface opinion //
@octopus@weirder.earth I did use a principle something like that for Xalia's interactions, but Xalia has almost no visible UI - just the border for targeted control. But it's more like.. if there's a thing that one's familiarity with playing games on gamepads leads them to expect a control to do in a regular UI context, it should probably do that.
re: computer interface opinion //
@octopus@weirder.earth Only if they're doing something explicitly included in the UI. They may be dragging or pressing keys expecting them to do something.
re: computer interface opinion //
@octopus@weirder.earth I'm taking the reply as an invitation to pull this apart. What if two different users have clear, but contradictory, ideas about what an action should do?
Esme Povirk
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US Pol (disappearance of Xiaofeng Wang and is wife)
I don't understand why this isn't front page news. YouTube has basically two videos about it from a few hours ago, one that doesn't even mention the fact no one can reach them, the other touching on that incredibly disturbing part of the story for a barely a second before moving on.
@freya I think of it as "reality" being one specific dream with its own continuity, while the others are equally real. Which leads me to caring a lot more about my behavior in dreams.
Joined Aug 2018
