Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
brain noise, hypnosis, sfw
Backstory: We used to have constant verbal chatter going on in our brain. It didn't stop even when we slept, it just became incoherent. Then, we started exploring hypnosis, and at some point it clicked, and we found a way to, with difficulty, not voice our thoughts. It was such a relief, and we practiced it until it became the default, and our mind became much quieter and calmer. We've wished since then to teach it, but we never understood well enough how it happened.
Esme Povirk
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@carol This is literally a good lesson for EVERYONE in *anything,* not even just software.
Giving into pressure/guilt is DANGEROUS
In personal relationships, it's one of the worst things you can do: it tells an abuser or manipulator you're a target.
In anything financial, it's often a baited hook for a scam
In politics it's a great way to get pulled into anything from outright far-right fascist bullshit like qanon to "left" groups that are actually state-sponsored ops or personality cults
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the lesson *I'm* choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons
Does anyone else have, like, a nearly-transparent layer of static overlaid on their vision, only noticeable if you focus on it or turn off perceptual filters?
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Reminder: Nintendo services for the Wii U and 3DS go down in less than two weeks: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63227/~/announcement-of-discontinuation-of-online-services-for-nintendo-3ds-and-wii-u
Now is an excellent time to play anything online you'd forgotten about, back up your system, and install homebrew before the servers go offline.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd am doing a little chaos
Boost if you cook like a video game where you just smash some ingredients together and see what happens.
I just read a message that started "one of my friends had a weird glitch" and for a moment thought that this was referring to the friend's behavior rather than a computer system the friend was interacting with. -Menderbot
gender-affirming mare
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The data also suggest that masking could save at least 20,000 lives per year just by protecting from flu infections; we really don't know how strongly masking can reduce COVID-19 mortality when combined with vaccines because mask/vax has been presented as an either/or framework by US PH officials.
20,000 people is not millions, but it's a lot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JbencdPLI
We don't really see this talked about, but something that helps us a lot as a neurodivergent human is the "decision-saving device". We find that every decision takes some energy, and "naively" we'd make many tiny decisions throughout the day which would be exhausting. So we come up with rules and systems that make the decisions for us instead. We've done this basically our entire life. -Antissa
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Starting again because I ran into tech issues this morning. Am now using actual 3DS capture instead of Citra.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd So, my intent when I started this wasn't to play BIT.TRIP Runner forever. I wanted a chaotic mix of challenges in different games I enjoyed, with a bias towards those where I was improving. My struggles with a promising controller that didn't pan out (yet) are in danger of burning me out on that game. So I just added a bunch of other stuff to the mix and we'll see what happens I guess.
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Esme Povirk
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we think we just put our finger on something we've been struggling for a while to find words for
explaining complex ideas in the form of a video makes them highly accessible to audiences who are already motivated to engage with these ideas. that's great!
it also makes them extremely difficult to critically engage with, compared to most written media.
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In an effort to prevent side channel attacks that use machine learning to decode audio of typed passwords, mechanical keyboard club is proposing single-use keyboards for password entry.
Security adverse partners and spouses of mechanical keyboard club remain unconvinced, questioning why we need "another one of those damn keyboards"
kinky fantasy, hypnosis, accidental syscovery, "you"
You give your sub a trigger to help her explore her dominant side. It works surprisingly well, but she stops talking to you after that without saying why.
Months later, you finally hear from her, but she introduces herself as the trigger word you gave her. She's ready to forgive the disruption you caused the two of them(?), but you'll have to become her pet first. She might even let you play with your old sub again, if you're good.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Playing the same game I usually play, BIT.TRIP Runner.
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EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others
Lawmaker hails "world's first binding law on artificial intelligence."
Joined Aug 2018
