Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Actually, now that i think about it, this category is very broad outside of software too.
To me it feels reasonable to say: the things needed for a functioning society (or participation in such) should be free, transparent, and non-discriminatory. Which I guess is almost, but not quite, socialism? I don't care about ownership of those things, just how they're run.
It just occurred to me that a lot of software, including client-side software, is infrastructure. Like, my email client and text editor are infrastructure. And therefore I hold them to different standards than I would a game someone made. I expect them to be free, not for profit, transparent (open source, open protocols, finances, etc.), and non-discriminatory.
I am willing to pay for such things, but if using it requires payment, I will look for any alternative.
I recently started using this Android application for medication reminders: https://github.com/Futsch1/medTimer
It'll make notifications on your phone based on your meds schedule, and you can mark off when you've taken them. Options to repeat or snooze notifications. It keeps track of what you've taken when, or skipped, and you can log that in more detail in the app (including non-scheduled doses).
It seems to work well, and I think I'll keep it.
Esme Povirk
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About “deadnames”
Some myths about deadnames and deadnaming
- “it’s just a trans thing”: cis people can have deadnames too, for many many reasons. It’s not just a special concern of trans people. One common reason is that a name can be connected to an abusive family member, and they may be powerless to change it formally and publicly. Another is the adoption of a name for oneself as a rite of passage.
- “all former/assigned-at-birth names of trans people are deadnames”: not all trans people have deadnames. Practices about names vary widely across cultures, languages and groups. For example I don’t consider my “wallet name” dead, and it isn’t a gendered name and doesn’t make gender dysphoria worse. Meanwhile I choose to not use it day to day because many people have trouble pronouncing it (or recognizing it as a name!)
I think the rejection of deadnaming shouldn’t be understood as a dogmatic issue but as a practice of care, about caring of the real other.
@riesi I'm aware of it. It's occasionally an improvement.
Like, no one can make a web browser because the web is so complex, and we mostly use that complexity for:
- Running complex client-side applications in a cross-platform virtual machine. Which is really cool, but I kinda hate that the UI and the service are so often tied together.
- Bombarding me with distractions when I just want to read an article or watch a video or whatever.
And.. maybe a simple client would be better than a complex VM and layout engine a lot of the time?
So much of my experience of browsing the web is fighting sites over how I want them displayed, that I'm beginning to think that I don't want a web browser that renders web pages, and instead I want a web browser that scrapes content from web pages and displays it according to my preferences.
Today I learned that you can replace share/media/blank.mkv with whatever you want and Proton will (in theory) play it instead of the SMPTE pattern for videos it doesn't have transcoded. I feel like there's some meme potential here.
Esme Povirk
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So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
villain problems
blisters from doing the evil hand rub too frequently
Esme Povirk
boosted
Joined Aug 2018
