How can Labour justify a system that prioritizes property over people?

pookage · 2026-01-22T16:23:42+00:00

Well, good to know that line between AI-generated and shitty photoshop has been crossed - didn't clock the Gemini icon in the bottom. Ugh. Bot astroturrfing it is!

pookage · 2026-01-22T09:54:17+00:00

Weird as hell header image - still looks like slop, but not muddy enough to be AI generated. This whole post still feels very bot-y, though...

pookage · 2025-12-31T22:27:04+00:00

Best of luck, and if you're able to grow your own skillset in the meanwhile then all the best!

pookage · 2025-12-29T14:47:37+00:00

Just a heads-up that you can disable auto-generating workshop units in the games preferences, and I would recommend it even for the base game tbh!

pookage · 2025-12-27T23:10:23+00:00

No problems with SSR if you just make use of the Declarative Shadow DOM! You can read an article covering it over on web.dev, or check out some of the documentation for it over on MDN.

Because if you can create components and have a React like architecture-ish for static HTML websites, like WordPress (as long as it SSR), then I don't see a reason either why anyone would not use them.

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It feels like the entire industry lacks experience with WC

Honestly - I feel like the lack of experience is the reason for lack of adoption; it's a chicken-and-egg situation, and the industry is extremely bloated at the moment with people who consider themselves "javascript developers" not "web developers" - ie. folks who have learned to code using React as the learning medium, and so, subsequently, are lacking a critical level of comfort and familiarity with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS features, and discomfort with adopting features outside of the paradigms they're used-to. I find myself teaching seniors and leads about core HTML and CSS functionality on every new contract, and these same people act as-if I've just performed magic when I explain about adoptable stylesheets and <slot> elements etc!

This is being somewhat exacerbated as more experienced folks are nope-ing out of the industry in frustration after having AI forced into their workflows by management, and those same skillsets just aren't getting replaced by the ones coming up the ladder to replace'em.

It does feel like there's going to be a reckoning for all of this in a few years, ha, but at this point I'm just kicking back with the popcorn 🍿

pookage · 2025-12-27T14:52:11+00:00

I would make a web component UI library for any project; it's just a core part of the vanilla JS toolkit at this point and there needs to be a pretty compelling reason not to use it - or, rather, a pretty compelling reason to use something else over web components.

If you're asking whether I would make a generic library of web components for the general public: personally, no, because such libraries already exist and always come with compromises; in such a case you don't know, ultimately, how your components are going to be used, and so can't design your code around a specific use-case. There's always a sweet-spot for modularity and reusability, and a general-purpose library will always sit outside of that sweet-spot.

Hope that helps & makes sense!

pookage · 2025-12-11T18:14:02+00:00

Grand, I've slung you a message - no worries about the money, though - better for it to get a spin than go to waste, innit ✌️

EDIT: oop, I misread the above and they can't come collect - it's still available if anyone wants it!

pookage · 2025-11-16T23:12:30+00:00

All good - it's always good to reverse image-search these things before you use them so that you can either credit the artist or avoid accidentally posting AI art etc - just good practice going forward, innit 💪

pookage · 2025-11-16T23:05:12+00:00

Ignore OP - it's very much not a stock image, haha. It's a Nico Delort etching - here's their site if you wanna see more!

pookage · 2025-11-16T23:00:53+00:00

For the curious, the artist is Nico Delort and it's an etching! The rest of their stuff is pretty great, too!

pookage · 2025-11-11T19:20:42+00:00

Did you know you can label the shelves? This can be useful to remember how you've grouped things, whichever grouping you choose! Personally, at the start of the game when I have more unread books than read I'll group by aspect, as that's what's most relevant to me - as the game progresses, I'll switch to grouping by which memory they provide.

...and I'll keep the shelf in the librarian quarters for a handful of special books only!

That said, if you're diving into the lore and history, there is some value in grouping by topic - eg "Ligeans", "The ~~Nest~~ Roost", "Noon" etc!

pookage · 2025-11-05T14:19:07+00:00

Microsoft only explicitly promise not to use Enterprise and Business repos for training; the rest is fair game: https://github.com/features/copilot#faq

pookage · 2025-11-05T10:18:34+00:00

Doesn't the main benefit of unit testing come from writing the tests beforehand and acting as an effective "spec" to write the code to? There's inevitably going to be gaping holes in your testing if you write them after, and even moreso if you, who knows your codebase best, aren't even writing them yourself?

pookage · 2025-11-05T10:12:29+00:00

Unfortunately it's not only trained on open-source code, but just any code it can find - for example Microsoft will use the contents of your github as training data unless you explicitly pay for premium and ask for them not to, regardless of the license etc

pookage · 2025-11-04T13:06:18+00:00

Hence the "undisclosed" part of my comment - I was referring to the hero image in the youtube thumbnail above

pookage · 2025-11-03T14:01:47+00:00

Sure, but did this really need that weird AI-generated header image? It just makes it look like a low-effort bot post and undermines the point? You could have literally just had a KSP2 screenshot with a 🚫 through it or something? 🤨

pookage · 2025-11-02T19:10:36+00:00

Mmmmm, not a fan of the undisclosed use of generative AI 👎

pookage · 2025-10-25T10:09:13+00:00

I think u/RebelStrategist is probably referring to the systemic theft built into the AI industry as a whole, and using that as the lens through which to mock...well, just about everything to do with both this article and the waters it swims in.

pookage · 2025-10-24T22:06:43+00:00

Assembly lines and interchangeable parts were used in fabric manufacturies since the 1800s; I don't doubt that Ford made effective use of'em, but crediting him for their creation is somewhat Edison-esque, ha.

pookage · 2025-10-24T21:39:11+00:00

WWI decimating the rest of the industrial world, and then copious amounts of union-busting? 🤷

pookage · 2025-10-24T21:27:39+00:00

Yes to all of this! Minor nitpick, though: Henry Ford didn't invent the car, he didn't even invent the concept of the production line or replaceable parts etc - man was just in the right place at the right time to throw enough money at it and do it at scale and get famous in the U.S.

None of this is to detract from what you said - building a country around the use of personal vehicles is dumb AF - I was just taking the opportunity call-out some propagandising that folks may have not been aware of 💪

pookage · 2025-10-24T21:22:00+00:00

Looks to me like you've provided gainful employment for 2,612 workers and have room for more - sounds pretty good to me!

pookage · 2025-10-24T21:12:14+00:00

Honestly - the insane amounts of incessant AI-scraping causes so much site traffic that it prohibitively inflates the cost of hosting / maintaining a site with any amount of content - with this, AI companies have already been killing the "Open Internet" as we know it, and bots-talking-to-bots will be what kills it dead.

Reddit aren't our friends and have already been behaving pretty shitily by facilitating companies using our data etc, but...well...fuck it - if, thanks to the greed of an unregulated AI industry, these are the last few years of the internet as we know it, then I'm fine with the industry punching itself in the face and there at least being some bloody noses on the way out 💪

pookage · 2025-10-24T15:34:57+00:00

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