Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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re: hot take, javascript
@clarfonthey That's a whole different discussion, though, that isn't really relevant for my original post - which is that bundling is, itself, fundamentally a very simple operation (it's basically somewhat structured string concatenation) and there is no reason for people to reinvent that wheel 10 times.
re: hot take, javascript
@clarfonthey Bundlers have never been slow. You can bundle the frontend code for whole production sites in under like 400ms. The slow part was always all of the shit that people inserted *into* the bundling process (like code analysis, minification, etc.)
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terrible company
hot take, javascript
@serapath Bundlers are necessary because traversing a dependency graph over a high-latency link like the network is fundamentally not viable.
The problem I am talking about is not the existence of bundlers; it's that there are so many, and that most of them bring absolutely nothing to the table that wasn't already possible in their predecessor.
hot take, javascript
There is no justifiable reason for so many different extensible (yet mutually incompatible) bundlers to exist, given how trivial of a task bundling is, and the fact that they *do* all exist should raise some uncomfortable questions about why
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That's the first #SpiderOfDeath of this year? 5 January, that's early 
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i hacked a led backlight into a thinkpad r61 this weekend. was kinda pissed at myself because i did the same thing years ago with a x200, but didn't keep notes, and had to basically reverse-engineer myself. so this time i kept notes, which means that in case you need some guidance for hardware crimes, i got you covered:
https://blog.nadja.top/led-backlight-for-thinkpad-r61t61-and-x200.html
@pseudoramble (It's also achievable through a rule in uBlock Origin, using the mechanism that it uses for tracker sites - which presents an interstitial telling you that it was blocked, and whether you want to proceed)
@pseudoramble I *think* LeechBlock can do this, but I don't remember whether it was that or StayFocusd (the Chromium equivalent).
@wmd@chaos.social In the past I've put a wraparound band *over* my ear instead of slightly above it, and this alleviated the problem in my case, though I imagine it depends on the type of ear damage.
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Happy New Year 2025! Wishing you a year of creativity, inspiration, and full of hidden treasures.
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This is the most nail on the head version of this meme I've seen.
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Bird photography is relatively gear-intensive because birds are small and usually prefer staying away from humans. But after doing this for awhile, I know of no piece of gear that makes more of a difference than consistently being on the beach when the sun comes up. The light and the water and the sand know how to show off, and you just need to be there to click the button.
@serapath @bananas That particular definition doesn't seem very workable to me, because then you end up in endless debate about whether something "has a business model" or not, and the distinction as defined there only really matters to VCs anyway.
Because a startup finding a business model doesn't actually make it any less toxic or unsustainable, it's always trying to achieve impossible ROIs either way.
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People who were at #38c3: Please check yourself for flu, especially if you’re feeling shit. Anti-pyretics (Ibuprofen, Aspirin) are first line treatment. Antihistamines can help with any inflamation. Vitamin D and C are always good things to take to aid your immune system.
Drink lots of electrolytes if possible, water if not. Watch your body temperature - your instincts will be to wrap up tight because you feel cold and that is not a good idea if your body temperature is already elevated.
If you’re already on anti-retrovirals (e.g. PrEP) remember to take them, they can help with some viral infections.
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"What kind of normal person would make these kinds of errors?" is a useful question but also a dangerous question.
Especially if you value the very kind of abnormal people who might not make normal errors.
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It warms my soul that there are people who *care* about obscure things. People who know every kind of lego brick, people who have studied the gaps between train arrival times. It's not *just* their expertise that I value it's THEM, the person! I love them.
But, wasting that love on a decoy made to attract me for the purposes of marketing and SEO is an indignity I don't want to risk. So, I've become judgemental and cautious in exactly the way that might harm the very people I love.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
