Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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The evidence fails to support the claim that homework is academically beneficial for students in any meaningful sense, as I showed in this chapter from my book The Homework Myth: www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/.
Many HW defenders quickly pivot to claiming that it promotes self-discipline, responsibility, time management & study skills, etc. Yet over the last 20 years I've been unable to find a single study that supports this folk wisdom about HW's supposed nonacademic advantages.
Finally found the "stop nagging me to offer AI" button in Visual Studio
Xalia (project I've been working on for about 2 years) is now out there in stable Proton. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-2
This is an external program that adds gamepad controls to desktop apps (Linux, Windows, and Wine with some modifications in Proton). Currently only used for a few launchers, but hoping to expand this and have it usable in regular desktop environments.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still doing foot controls and flashcards. Playing Ultimate NES Remix and trying not to get overwhelmed with ILs.
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State of the art anti-cheat techniques: Roblox detects if you have the string "x86dbg" in a window title (or window?), so kids are changing their display names and discord server names to x86dbg to get people kicked from Roblox.
If you do a search for this, links to big discussions on Roblox forums return "Sorry that page is private", so I guess that's their solution to the problem?
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Ubuntu upgrade borked desktop, new streaming setup on Manjaro. Playing Ultimate NES Remix.
linux geekery
Yay, I just made a working PKGBUILD for https://github.com/Stary2001/InputClient-SDL
I'm not sure if I can submit it to AUR though because the author of that program didn't bother with a license.
spirituality
"But what about <well-known suffering-causer>?" Hope that they learn better, or that their power is taken away from them. Hope that they do not suffer in turn, hope not for retribution. Know that the path they are on does not lead to happiness, and have sympathy for that.
spirituality
I've glimpsed this for most of my life, but I didn't understand why most people are missing it. You really do have to love everyone, including those who cause more suffering than you could fathom, including parts of yourself that hurt you, or that you're ashamed of. There can be no room for hate. You can call no one a sinner. The world will fling shame at you, and you must not let it touch you. They'll tell you that some are not deserving of love, and you must not believe them.
spirituality
There's a kind of power that comes from loving everyone, no exceptions. It's power to change yourself. To see clearly what's important. To know that everything really will be OK, even if the worst happens, while still caring about the suffering that is there, still wanting to live and make things better.
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The year is 2042. You log in to work in the morning. Your various Zoom vtuber clones have attended five simultaneous daily stand-up meetings. You can't really tell if the notes they took mean anything, but probably not - no human has been to any of these meetings in years. Probably safe to disregard them.
You work for a publishing house, so you received fifteen thousand scripts for novels overnight. Your Outlook assistant claims all of them were AI-generated, so you delete them unread. No real way to know.
You order food from a delivery service. Doesn't really matter what or where, the pictures and descriptions are all AI-generated and the food is drop-shipped from a ghost kitchen somewhere. Half of them claim to be McDonalds, but what you get is a sticky pizza bagel.
Outside, the Nasdaq reaches an all-time height.
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A friend just pointed out:
"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."
Let’s do this.
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Hey so my financial situation is starting to be 🚨...
if you could throw something at my ko-fi or patreon it would be a HUGE help ❤
kink, productivity
Writing and tracking a todo list is way easier when it's so your domme knows when she can mess with you without interfering with things you need to get done.
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Google starts deprecating older, more capable Chrome extensions next week
Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.
Yep, work and personal desktop both on Manjaro now.
Personal desktop very broken by upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04. I think I'm just going to install Manjaro.
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This short video is brilliant for revealing stigma
"This is what stigma around autism sounds like to an autistic person"
#ActuallyAutistic #audhd
https://youtu.be/cZiR4o6j4HY
Joined Aug 2018
