Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Neat :)

Can't fall asleep so instead I've been drawing 'uwu' faces in a spectrogram by whistling

This weekend, talking to a guy who does IT at a Dutch bank.

Me: So everything runs on Azure or AWS these days?

He: Yes

Me: So they can see all the data.

He: No it's on separate servers, on EU soil. That was a thing before we decided to go ahead with this.

Me: So... They can see all the data.

He: No it's encrypted and threw some acronyms at me.

Me: So, you download the data, decrypt it, and work on it?

He: No that's done on the servers.

Me: So... They can see all the data.

my slides for tomorrow have a lot of dynamic DOM action behind the scenes — to the point where it started causing jank of about 0.5s on some transitions

so, of course, I opened the profiler to see if there's any low-hanging fruit to be reaped

and found that all the time was being spent by the Bitwarden browser extension traversing the DOM all the time! idk, I guess they're looking for shit to autofill? doesn't make much sense considering they don't actually have *auto*-fill, you need to confirm...

anyway, I tried a fresh browser profile, without any extensions, and what do you know. butter smooth, even on battery and the power-saving governor that entails

I wonder how much of the performance shittiness I get in normal browsing is caused by fucking Bitwarden

In light of Mozilla's recent terms-of-service bullshit (and well, the years of enshittification preceding that too)...

Here's a reminder that Servo:
- Is an independent browser engine that exists,
- Is no longer a Mozilla project,
- But *is* being actively developed and maintained,
- And needs your help and contributions to make it a full-fledged alternative!

https://book.servo.org/contributing.html

(Its current primary objective is defined as being an "embeddable browser engine" but this is only the first step, and more importantly, it's where 95% of the work in "building a complete browser" lies)

My cat has invented a game where he hides under the bed and I shake his crinkly snake on a stick toy. He waits until I'm not paying attention then explodes out from a different piece of the bed to grab the snake. Having raised my blood pressure and vanquished the snake, he trots back under the bed. Repeat until the cat is done.

To start the game, he brings the snake on a stick to me, drops it at my feet, and howls. I have been well trained.

#CatsOfMastodon

This is the first time in my career I've had to email a lawyer before kicking off a test run.

Just a reminder that the names of your bibtex citations get included in the PDF (both as the link anchor name and in the metadata), so if you name a paper `morons_who_copied_us`, reviewers and readers will be able to see that...

Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳

The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.

(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615)

(Via @rolle)

🪭remove all gender markers from identity documents. They serve no purpose except harassing people.

A fun thing with vulnerability writeups is to watch the (cloud-based) issue trackers of affected companies come in as referers :)