Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
plurality
I have created an in-system appeals process.
It's generally for small decisions (like "should we get up and drink some water?") where we already know the answer but aren't doing it for a bad reason, often just inertia.
The process consists of someone going "I invoke discernment" and then we use discernment to find the answer (which we already know), and so far that gets whatever's blocking it out of the way.
re: steam on linux
@emerald Proton is usable in regular desktop Linux in Steam. It's typically transparent when it works, you just run the game like a normal Linux game. If you want to use it to run a Windows game that's not on Steam, that's possible but a little weird to set up.
There are also various other launchers that can do stuff with Proton outside of Steam, and forks of Proton, that I have no experience with.
(My job has me working on Proton sometimes.)
time management
I've decided not to schedule chores anymore.
In my free time, I will do what I most feel like in the moment. I don't satisfice. I have imperfect memory, so I keep a list of the options (trying to group things that are sufficiently similar). And I have primacy bias, so the things I do get moved to the end.
I suspect I have enough motivation that I still will get things done when I need to. So far that appears to be the case.
plurality re: kink, hypno //
@lioness My system used to do this naturally. The accidentally-created drone headmate (or one of the others who was well-suited to it) would take over when energy was low.
Esme Povirk
boosted
This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! https://hashman.ca/security-101/
Esme Povirk
boosted
New post:
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship
@emerald I think all of mine have been guids or something. But I don't follow a lot of podcasts.
Looking into Nix again and this time instead of being confused about what it even is, I'm starting to think maybe it'd be a very useful tool for me to learn (and use on systems other than NixOS).
@mavica_again This is basically how I consume RSS.
Hey tell me about your favorite webcomics
Surprisingly, this does not eliminate the risk that the maintainer will want you to explain or modify your patch. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/175
No one wants to review your patch? Simply become the project maintainer and then merge it yourself. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/174
@tbodt When that happens, I will write my own logic to fetch the content.
ADHD
I think maybe the reason priority heap time management has been working well for me is: it lets my ADHD brain go where it wants. As soon as this project stops being what I most want to do with my time, I'll stop. And maybe come back to it. Or maybe not.
I'm not attached to the idea of completing it. I'm not going to push myself to get it done. I won't regard it as a failure if I abandon it.
I suspect I will get it working eventually, though, because the web isn't getting any less annoying.
@mavica_again I'll make sure I test with this, thanks.
Esme Povirk
boosted
psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a job" we are holding down the entire science and tech economy, Clarence.
"a defining characteristic of autism is a lack of desire to share interests with others and a deficiency in theory of mind" I think the issue might be that you have never once spoken to a single autistic person as if YOU possess theory of mind, Karen. Now, the doors have been locked for your convenience, and my six hour presentation on obscure writing systems may commence.
@tbodt That would be a very different project.
Browsers don't care if your HTML is well-formed or not so this isn't surprising.
Still working on this. Got as far as the body tag and into the header of the page I'm working on. But, surprise, the HTML is malformed. They failed to close an element. So I had to add a rule so that, if an ancestor element is closed, it treats that as implicitly closing the current element.
Joined Aug 2018
