Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

adjusted my time management based on the assumption that I can get a maximum of two 90 minute chunks of "brain work good time" per day

Do you ever get a little short of breath trying to process how much the world?

@hollie My RSS reader didn't throw any errors from youtube feeds today, so they may be back.

I need to find new samefoods. What are some complex carbs, proteins, and fruits/veggies that are cheap, easy, and relatively healthy to eat a lot of?

@minego OK, so imagine there's music playing in your head all the time, except 4′33″ is in the rotation.

Went back to the uBO defaults to have a clean slate to work on this, and even with a working ad blocker the web has gotten worse than I realized. Near-constant distractions and interruptions.

Not much in these yet, but here it is: https://github.com/madewokherd/ublock-filter-lists

If you want to use this, please send me examples of stuff you want rid of, as you encounter it. Let's squash all those unnecessary distractions that get in the way of reading websites.

Fantasy: This won't work because there are all sorts of technical work-arounds and corner cases that it doesn't account for, that us tech people can imagine. Kids will pass around USB boot drives and use them to
Reality: This won't work because NOBODY CARES.

Like, it kinda makes sense if you use computers the way I do, and every device has a password, and if I let anyone else use it they get their own account, but I am NOT NORMAL. People don't do this shit. And for anyone who does, all they need are parental controls.

I feel like a question about OS-level age tracking that would've been obvious to me, were I not a tech person, is: what about shared accounts? I'm not just talking about library computers. Tech people will create a separate account for everyone who uses a device, but I think most people set up one account with no password and never think about it again. If you try to force them to set a password, they will sticky-note it to the screen. How is this going to work in practice?

Commented out almost all of my filters, will more carefully check/document/categorize things as I see them.

Thinking about starting public uBlock filter lists for (individually):

• "Related Content"
• pullquotes
• interrupting popovers
• cookie banners
• autoplaying videos on articles

Since I'm going through the trouble to block those things anyway, might as well share it, right?

@hollie I have been, and still am, getting 404 errors from Youtube channel feeds which previously worked. Previously, it's been occasional, but now it's all of them.

How to get things done:

1. Break your task into smaller tasks.
2. Count the tasks and shuffle them into an Archipelago.
3. The next task on my list is in spike cave on the Dark DM bridge. How do I get to the Dark DM bridge???

Hey I made a randomizer, kinda https://github.com/madewokherd/Manual/releases/tag/dragonsweeper-1.1.0

Identifying as "playersexual" just to mess with other people's sense of reality.

@wwahammy To me, age verification means someone actually checks. AFAICT this leaves it entirely up to whoever configures/admins the device. Which still sucks, but I feel like this puts it more on par with the thing where websites ask for your birthdate and all it does is teach kids to lie about their birthdates.

Strategically, I'm not sure where I should fall on this, because while it's just as ineffective and misguided, it avoids some of the worst harms and might displace more harmful laws.