Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Seems like internally asking "what would this look like if we could visualize it well?" is resulting in better visualization than the direct approach. -iore
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Pros of being gay: girls
Cons of being gay: girls are so pretty it's hard to form the words necessary to talk to them
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FUCK @dasharez0ne, if you have a scrap of dignity and give a fuck about trans people? Spread this far and wide.
Below is a Google Doc discussing how the trans person that was behind
it got chased out by the transphobic asshole running things now. Oh, and how she got cut out of getting almost any money from that highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
They don't deserve your time or dimes. Spread the word everybody, Da Sharez0ne is DONE.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBwTeS3c5v1CJYQys68wBECrexEh4I1yWWtWT93ilWM/preview
I kinda hate the online CI thing where I have to push a branch and have a server run my code just to test it.
plurality, hypnokink
Amazing how much two people can mess with each other when they live in the same brain AND they're both hypnokinky AND they fully trust each other. Anyway, Cedar is a very good and cute tree and I'm sure the nap I decided they'd be taking will be over soon. -iore
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programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like
"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.
GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.
See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."
and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is
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I really love @brainwane's Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day (June 20!) https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/ as a time to reflect on your volunteer responsibilities. it helped me realize that maintaining rbspy was not working for me and that I wanted to hand it off
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The people who now say I'm not a girl are the same people who used to tell me I was such a girl before I told them that I actually am a girl.
I think they just don't like girls.
Memory says that, shortly before realizing we were nonbinary, we posted something like "I'm not cis, btw" to twitter, no context, not really knowing why or what that meant. It doesn't seem to make much sense, is that really how it happened?
relationship announcement
Inside me there is a ferret and a tree. They're girlfriends.
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We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The power would gradually, inevitably, run down. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost.
We didn’t expect that it would go mad.
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
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The degree to which everyday life assumes all adults have a backup adult at the ready anytime is ridiculous.
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Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
I wonder if relocated snails dream of home.
streaming
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Continuing my Super Metroid playthrough.
plurality and hypnosis
Had some good success in an experiment (using playlists and a text-to-speech script) trancing our best hypnotee and then having them switch to someone else so the second person could experience the same quality of trance. We'd tried trance for switching before, but we hadn't worked out all the steps we needed to do for a good switch and described them in a script.
I feel like asymmetrical relationship should be OK? Like, for example, a relationship that's romantic for one person and platonic for the other, and they both know and are OK with that. Why do partners have to reciprocate feelings, if they can love each other in their own ways?
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MYTH: your gender is determined at birth and can never change
FACT: your gender is determined by the witch who takes ownership of your soul and will change according to her whims
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"[...]RAID array[...]"
"um, 'RAID array' is redundant"
"yeah, that's what the R is for"
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Google is too big to fail, and yet they seem to be failing at basic things they used to do well (like search) while removing useful features (like cache) and adding a bunch of crap nobody needs or wants.
Want to know if a given domain name shows up anywhere in search? Well screw you, we're not going to tell you that anymore, but here's 1,400 completely useless and irrelevant results that could possibly have some info (but don't). When the search engine could have done what it's done for years, and admit that it doesn't know WTF you're talking about and say "no results found." Now it just makes shit up if it doesn't know the answer.
Hey cool! My search result shows the term I was looking for is present on 7 website. Shoot! None of them are online anymore. How about showing us your cached version of the site, you know the one that was used to create this search result? Oh wait, no, you can't see that anymore. Why? Here's Danny Sullivan's dismissive and mystifying explanation: "“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”
Want software? Great, Google will serve a malicious ad on top that looks a lot like an organic search result but which is paid for by scammers and installs malware.
Joined Aug 2018
