Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
What if we were both girls and we played a game together and held opposite sides of the controller and our arms crossed? 😳
Esme Povirk
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I have never come upon a paywall while casually browsing the news and thought, "Let me get my credit card out."
It's always, "I don't need to know that badly."
Esme Povirk
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Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
food
I just ate the straightest string cheese I've ever encountered. Every little pulled off piece was pretty much uniform thickness.
I am over a month behind on social media and falling more behind every day. I do not plan to make any attempt to reverse this trend.
plurality
I have created an in-system appeals process.
It's generally for small decisions (like "should we get up and drink some water?") where we already know the answer but aren't doing it for a bad reason, often just inertia.
The process consists of someone going "I invoke discernment" and then we use discernment to find the answer (which we already know), and so far that gets whatever's blocking it out of the way.
time management
I've decided not to schedule chores anymore.
In my free time, I will do what I most feel like in the moment. I don't satisfice. I have imperfect memory, so I keep a list of the options (trying to group things that are sufficiently similar). And I have primacy bias, so the things I do get moved to the end.
I suspect I have enough motivation that I still will get things done when I need to. So far that appears to be the case.
Esme Povirk
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This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! https://hashman.ca/security-101/
Esme Povirk
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New post:
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship
Looking into Nix again and this time instead of being confused about what it even is, I'm starting to think maybe it'd be a very useful tool for me to learn (and use on systems other than NixOS).
Hey tell me about your favorite webcomics
Surprisingly, this does not eliminate the risk that the maintainer will want you to explain or modify your patch. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/175
Joined Aug 2018
