Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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Neurospicy ramblings
It’s fucked up that I get to do at most one thing per day, and how sometimes that one thing puts me out of commission for multiple days.
It is OP that some people can do multiple things in a single day. “Autism is a superpower!” Bitch you can’t say that to me when you’ve showered, done the dishes, and been to the shops all before lunch.
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SCOTUS rules publicly funded charter schools in North Carolina can't force girls to wear skirts as part of the dress code. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code
Where the Heck Did I Put Down My Glasses?: The Movie: The Game
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"barefoot time" is surprisingly helpful for recharging
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I think it's really funny that Apple's HQ is a literal walled garden
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It’s like the US is the same country with the same horrifying problems we’ve had for ages, but circa 2016 somebody enabled verbose logging
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The fediverse was never going to be a hockey stick. In the end it's more like a katamari. Picking up people left behind by the corporate internet into a messy ass ball that grows in fits and starts, but can keep on rolling past obstacles that closed systems can't.
Its lack of clearly defined shape is at once its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.
Also, external communication and internal communication model each other. Both should be rooted in kindness. There's a reason our system protectors are also the ones out there supporting people.
I've probably said this before but I think even non-plurals could benefit from more internal communication. Talk to yourself, out loud if you have to. Don't assume that if you know something all of you knows it. If you want your brain to do something, ask explicitly.
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My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone's to make money as their primary objective.
Not to provide valuable services for society.
Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
Not to preserve our environment.
All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.
kink (you've been warned)
I will be traveling to IL by train next weekend for Beguiled, where I hope to learn some things and have my brain consensually played with. I've never taken an Amtrak before or been to a kink con or been hypnotized in person before so I'm excited.
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The Reddit protests are winding down—so what’s next?
Ars spoke with community mods about where Reddit goes from here.
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We are not at the end of the useful Internet. We may be nearing the end of the phase where the corporate Internet pretended it didn't feel entitled to your attention and efforts.
Any of these large media sites have been useful in the last 15 years, it was rarely because of anything they did. Usually in spite of.
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What a wild turn of events... Yesterday folks at CodeWeavers, along with everyone else, have learned that Apple used the open source part of CrossOver as a base for their Game Porting Toolkit. Apple has provided a Homebrew formula that downloads the tarball from CodeWeaver's servers and applies a bunch of patches, most of which seem to originate from Proton + some glue to make their proprietary DirectX-on-Metal implementations work.
To say that this got me and many others by surprise is an understatement.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd More BIT.TRIP Runner, probably marginally less stubborn insistence on doing hard stages now.
It would be hilarious if it turns out password sharing was actually *making* Netflix money by being an unofficial form of price discrimination.
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Here's my postmortem of the RustConf Keynote Fiasco (so far), linking to all public statements, with additional context from interviewing 15+ people about it:
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco-explained
Joined Aug 2018
