Notices by winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2019 09:01:22 UTC 
winter
cmake syntax is the worst thing on earth
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winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2019 23:28:45 UTC
winter
@feld le nerd pootering has surpassed rasmus lerdorf as History's Greatest Monster to me -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2019 19:17:22 UTC
winter
"kill all men" "fuck cis people" "neurotypicals aren't human" these are what we call MICROAGGRESSIONS. you might be familiar with the term.
when people spend all their time ranting about people like you deserve to die because you're intrinsically evil and biologically subhuman and nothing you do will ever change that because you were predetermined an Oppressor from the moment you were born, and scream at you about how you're oppressing them whenever you ask them to stop saying violent and cruel things, it is because they are SHITTY FUCKING PEOPLE.
the appalling lack of empathy a fuckton of queer people (and trans women in particular, i've noticed) display for cis and/or het ppl, all while feeling entitled to their attention, support, time, money, and obedience drives me up the fucking wall. it is arrogant, selfish, borderline sociopathic, and abusive as all hell. if you treat people this way, you are a BAD FUCKING PERSON and you need to FIX YOUR SHIT.
if you are among the classes of people targeted by this abusive behavior and you try to rationalize and justify it, you are engaging in cognitive self-harm. you are making excuses for your abusers and permitting them to define your reality. and when you try to propagate your rationalizations to others, you drag them down with you. stop letting abusers recruit you. stop telling yourself these things are okay. you deserve better than this. so do the people you try to involve in your complex of self-hate. -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2019 19:05:31 UTC
winter
when people say things like "fuck cis people," IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE IMMATURE, SELF-CENTERED, AND HAVE ANGER PROBLEMS. IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE TOXIC PEOPLE AND YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THEM. -
winter (velartrill@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:24:53 UTC
winter
anyone ever told you "premature optimization is the root of all evil"?
let me tell you a story. about computers and javascript and hitler and the soviet union.
a friend of mine just dug up some numbers and did some math for my dyscalculic ass and came up with the conclusion that just by transmitting the minified version of jquery around (not even executing it!), Planet Earth is likely using up somewhere between 7-14 billion kWh of power every year.
let's put that into some perspective.
world war two was the single deadliest conflict in human history. it killed somewhere around 80 million people, which at the time was three percent of *all humans, everywhere.* it left europe in ruins, and nowhere was the damage so intense and horrific as the Soviet Union.
the Battle of Stalingrad is one of the most famous battles of the war. two million people died there alone. in the opening salvos the entire city was flattened by nazi and soviet bombs alike. eventually the Union prevailed, at a tremendous cost.
but Stalingrad was only one of the cities flattened, only one of the battles fought as Europe burned. the devastation was so comprehensive that nearly every western nation had to rely on aid from the US, one of the only powers on either side whose economy was intact, to rebuild. (it didn't help that American wartime policy was designed more to inflict as much Nazi death and destruction as possible on the Soviets, of course).
if we add up the energy of every single explosive device detonated over the course of that terrible war, from hand grenades all the way up to the two atom bombs the US detonated over japan, slaughtering civilians en masse and turning two cities to rubble in the space of a moment, we get the figure of about 3 megatons. or in kilowatt hours, 3.4 billion, spread out across all those years of war.
compared to 7-14 billion kWh just to transmitting the same tangle of bytes around again and again. every single year.
and that's just jquery. not the cost of executing it. not the mass of other garbage javascript and analytics and social media spyware, which now often adds up to megabytes per page. not the cost of rendering or running any of that.
just to zap jquery back and forth across the internet to every computer accessing a website that uses it.
a final point of comparison, now that i have your attention: bitcoin uses up 46,000 billion kilowatt hours per year. a number which is likely to keep on growing.
draw your own conclusions about web design & software optimization.
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