Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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I missed this terrific piece on burnout from @grimalkina
"It's alarming to write something really simple like, people deserve to have environments that don't destroy them and have it resonate with a lot of people."
This resonates hard. I say similar things every week to my reports, to colleagues, and to folks across the tech industry — and it's routinely far more unusual and impactful than it should be.
Every manager should say things like this (and, more importantly, *back it up with actions*). It should be an indictment of the industry that not only does this not happen, but rather burnout remains a perennial issue that continues to get worse, chasing women and Black folks out of the industry.
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/burnout-us
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plural people are cool you agree boost
- posted by Seraphine
If making a depiction of a better world is art, is making a better world directly also art?
@mavica_again True, I was thinking 95 for some reason. By 98 it was mostly installers, I'd guess.
@mavica_again 16-bit stuff in Wine tends to not go great because it's hard to work on and doesn't get much dev/testing.
for those who have cried and been shamed for it
You didn't do anything wrong. You are not responsible for maintaining others' comfort when things are too much for you. Even if it was about something small. You were not assigning blame or trying to manipulate or seeking attention. You felt something that needed expressed, and you expressed it, and that's good and natural. You should be allowed to do that. Being in touch with your feelings is good. Hold onto that.
what creates happiness?
I've been considering hypotheses and an odd one came up: happiness comes from being fully (or more fully) oneself. -iore
Entirely speculation until we figure out a way to test it of course, but it at least feels like a promising lead. -Esme
AI terminology annoyance
LLMs do not have a sensory experience. They cannot hallucinate. I see no reason to believe they are doing something intrinsically different when they give incorrect information compared to when they give correct information. They are just outputting tokens, which are only "true" or "false" when someone "interprets" them as a "statement".
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https://e926.net/posts/5031524
Source 1: https://twokindscomic.com/images/renihug_color.png
(Reference ID: 2185)
Thinking about a discussion my system had recently where we said that because most people in this society are not happy, it is a failing society. This includes those who are "succeeding" by its own metrics: people with more money are not happier.
But considering the problem in negative terms isn't very helpful. We should be able to answer the question: what does create happiness? It should be possible to work this out, and it's very important that we do. -iore
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Americans on testosterone gel, please check your lot/batch numbers.
There was a recall because there was benzene found in the gel, and you do NOT wanna rub that into your skin!
https://www.chpw.org/provider-center/pharmacy/drug-recall-report/
Esme Povirk
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7222e800 "memdmp"
robotgirl is updating.
- please don't go too far away from it until it's done
- please cuddle it
- it may beep weirdly
- do not power it off manually
- it will automatically reboot when done
@krypt3ia @recursive That's the first thing I did. Everything I found said something like "generally lifelong protection".
@krypt3ia @recursive Is there data on this? How old is old?
Esme Povirk
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Microsoft is putting privacy-endangering Recall back into Windows 11
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
linux(-)
A kernel update broke my wifi driver today (and the bug also caused stutters, I think). Which is my first major issue from an update since starting to use Arch 4 months ago. Which is not long at all so I guess I should expect a lot of this.
I've used Manjaro for longer, and I don't think I've encountered anything similar yet there, so that seems like a stability difference.
Arch was also harder to set up and has shown no clear advantage so I will continue to recommend it to no one.
Anyone else get the feeling that capitalism is propped up by one huge lie, namely that material wealth will naturally, and without effort, produce happiness, and if you aren't happy then you need more material wealth?
Joined Aug 2018
