Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@minego Competitive scenes are highly incentivized to come up with time-efficient ways to practice things.
@minego I mostly encounter them in speedrun and randomizer communities.
@minego Practice mods/hacks are very common.
@minego What's surprising to me about this is that you're apparently still able to process the audio you heard before while people are saying more words to you.
@hollie RIGHT? And no one ever told me it was a skill I'd have to learn.
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?
Joined Aug 2018
