Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
super nerdy dream
I had a dream where I simultaneously completed a video game and soft-locked it. By which I mean, I defeated the final boss and credits rolled, but when I reloaded the save, the final boss was still there, with the game apparently in an uncompletable state.
@gendercensus People who checked "woman" or "man" checked "enby" less often, but for most identity words, anyone who checked them is more likely to have checked "enby" than the general set of responses. I would guess that people who choose an identity word (except binary, woman, man, none, or cisgender...) are more likely to choose another identity word, and if so this doesn't tell me anything about "enby" specifically.
@gendercensus I see no clear pattern with regard to more "feminine" or "masculine" identity words.
@gendercensus I wrote a quick Python script to determine the percentage of people who selected each identity checkbox that ALSO selected "enby", and here's what I got: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TB4QRRFysp1LGOEoOEfPts8J9otufNCrCwYK2eGWLqw/edit?usp=sharing
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The US national election will soon be underway and a lot of people are feeling very stressed and upset about it.
PLEASE use the #uspol content warning on posts about the election, and any other relevant content warnings to posts venting about current events. Mastodon is some folks last online refuge to escape the constant barrage of bad and terrifying news, so let's respect our friends and neighbors by using the Content Warnings so others can choose to engage with us if they want to 💖
Esme Povirk
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Gender Census 2020 Report #4: The Pronoun Question
https://gendercensus.com/post/632150168128700416/gender-census-2020-the-pronoun-question
Esme Povirk
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shark art, eye contact
You ever just had a vague idea of a piece you'd like of your sona, but you're aphantasic and don't really know what that'd look like save for the most abstract description?
Well it turns out @fluxom_art read my mind, and it turned out better than I could've hoped!
I'm a plantshark now 
Going live with my romhacking project to remove screen flash effects from Mega Man 2. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
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tf, microfiction 1/?
You wake up one day and the "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHAs don't work anymore.
Doing some Mega Man 2 hacking, still working on removing screen flash effects. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
Going live with some Mega Man 2 hacking - removing full screen flash effects. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
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Gender Census 2020 Report #2: The identity question
https://gendercensus.com/post/625808277898493952/gender-census-2020-the-identity-question
Me: The race condition happens because the thread just posts a message to make X happen, then does something that requires X to have completed.
Brain: It's surprising that we still use the notion of a linear order of events when thinking about race conditions.
Me: Wait, what?
Hi, I wrote a thing about some problems I had with creative schoolwork https://archive.org/details/stunted-creativity-or-how-i-skipped-an-entire-category-of-schoolwork
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having a techie girlfriend is being asked "what happens when you click it though, like what's the error" and going "i mean it just doesn't work" and hearing the sharp inhale of someone working through their tech support trauma right in front of you to avoid screaming
About to reverse-engineer some Zelda 1 audio code, for converting recorder tunes. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
I don't usually cross-post from Twitter but LiveSplit just works(TM) in Wine now https://twitter.com/madewokherd/status/1274074775879585792
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fun with linux
Amazing.
I have the Zoom client installed on my computer (the only things I use it for don't need encryption). And every time I leave the computer for any length of time, when I come back, the Zoom client has started on its own.
It's not a specific interval. It's not a specific time. It just seems to be any time I'm away from the computer for more than 15 minutes; when I wake the computer back up, Zoom's sitting there, waiting.
I check running daemons, I poke at background tasks - nothing.
Finally, it occurs to me: "when I wake the computer up". So on a hunch, I check xscreensaver - which has an oooold screensaver called "zoom". I don't have that screensaver installed, but it's listed in the possible screensavers, so xscreensaver checks for it - and it doesn't just check the screensavers directory, it checks $PATH too.
I remove the "zoom" line from ~/.xscreensaver - and the problem goes away.
When I need to test things on Windows for work now it goes Windows->synergy->synergyc->Linux (local)->Remmina->x11vnc->Linux (work)->VirtualBox->Windows. It's kind of amazing that the whole chain works.
Joined Aug 2018
