@Reddit_World_News@feeds.twtxt.net Now if the same thing could happen to TikTok, the younger generation might recover a few IQ points.

(#tvu2tba) @prologic@twtxt.net Reckon he’s just getting ahead of the game, if that’s the flag they’re proposing for the feature to turn it off.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci ha!

@prologic@twtxt.net compared to a lot of modern sites that seems pretty darn slim haha. Most of the size seems to be the avatar(s) anyway.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net well that’s a whole lot of eww

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep, here’s another good one from the same guy: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

To serve users at the 75th percentile (P75) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year’s budgets, thanks to device and network improvements. Meanwhile, sites continue to send more script than is reasonable for 80+% of the world’s users, widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. This is an ethical crisis for frontend.

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Vendor’s random walk through frontend choices may eventually lead them to be right twice a day, but that’s not a reason to keep following their lead. No, we need to move our attention back to the folks that have been right all along. The people who never gave up on semantic markup, CSS, and progressive enhancement for most sites. The people who, when slinging JS, have treated it as special occasion food. The tools and communities whose culture puts the user ahead of the developer and hold evidence of doing better for users in the highest regard.

@bender@twtxt.net yep, that is well said.

Interesting article, especially in regards to AI: https://ntietz.com/blog/technology-right-to-exist/

…argument is this: It’s impossible to let people opt in/out of ML training on their creative works, so we must allow ML training without such a mechanism. But that presupposes that the ML training should exist.

That doesn’t hold water for me. It seems to me that if you can’t avoid a harm with the introduction of a technology, you have to either argue how the benefits of the new technology specifically outweigh the harm and should be allowed, or you have to not create the technology.

2023 - Year of the Layoffs

@prologic@twtxt.net funny you should post that, in my Go learning journey one of the more difficult things for me to grapple with was… Context. I see it everywhere but couldn’t quite understand it or liken it to anything else. I’ve a bit better of an understanding now after watching several videos and it looks like this one you’ve posted will help even more (just started watching). 👌

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci always was partial to Winds of Change

Heheh, people always talk about semantic HTML, but more like pedantic HTML amirite?

…I’ll show myself out

@prologic@twtxt.net thanks brother, I found that out when I put in the initial wrong feature flag and the web interface told me it was wrong and suggested the proper one 😅 the system works!

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com Thays behind a feature flag at the moment. lists_and_filtets

Thank you 🤗 forgot about the feature flags

kind of glad you upda semi-frequently, because it means there are more people testing the latest changes 🙇‍♂️

And yeah, when I’m actually active I like to keep it updated pretty much up to the last commit, I’m a sucker for running cutting edge haha

@prologic@twtxt.net thought I replied to you directly but apparently not..

Gotcha! Makes sense. I think also what made me wonder is your pod has those filters at the top, whereas mine doesn’t, unless I’m missing a setting?

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@prologic@twtxt.net Hey mate, I see your pod is running ‘Edge’ and mine is running the origin/main branch which is 0.15.1 (so it says), but it’s the same commit (ccf42403) so what is the difference 🤔

Isn’t the beauty of this whole yarn thing that you can just mute or just not follow someone? Then you’ll never see stuff you don’t want to.

I too am against over moderating, and it can be a slippery slope. On many other platforms I can see why it might be needed because of the way that stuff automatically propagates and is so discoverable or even pushed by an algorithm, but on a place like here… So easy to just tune out.

I mean, this was always going to be a problem

It’s easy to forget during my hiatuses how well yarn works for a news feed. Its nice browsing my timeline and getting news bits and pieces without any algorithm or corporation pushing it at me.

Sure they were, Netflix. Personally I think they did it deliberately to test the waters and see just how much backlash they’d get.

Yeah the word ‘decentralized’ is sure being a bit bastardized lately…

@prologic@twtxt.net US recession I assume

@prologic@twtxt.net not me mate, I asked as I was genuinely curious and as someone who only really knows SQL as far as databases go, I keep wondering what life is like on the NoSQL side of the fence 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci is that like some sort of pagination?

Holy shit Goroutines are awesome

@prologic@twtxt.net what do you dislike about SQL, just out of curiosity? Just personal preference or more architectural reason?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah hopefully, though as @prologic@twtxt.net says, seems almost inevitable these days. :/

@thecanine@twtxt.net Bet there’s some interesting psychology at play there

@prologic@twtxt.net oh yeah they are surprisingly comfy

Heh: https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/articles/this-site-is-no-longer-solar-powered-for-now/

Those little Apple keyboards look like they should snap under a typical dev’s typing workload but they never seem to 😅

How very true…
https://manuelmoreale.com/a-less-artificial-future

ffs Putin, give it up 🤦

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL, well that is much more reasonable 😄

But yeah @prologic@twtxt.net, I am finally just starting to learn Go actually. It’s surprised me, from what I’ve seen, how simple some things can be on the web development side. For example something like the Gin web framework (example), things are happening in less boilerplate than often what I’ve seen in PHP frameworks etc which I didn’t expect.

Okay so I have no clue about Rust nor am I a very proficient programmer, but surely this is even more of a joke than this repo portrays it to be? It can’t actually be this ridiculous to make a hello world in Rust surely 😅

You know you’ve made it once the spam bots start moving in 😅

excellent 👌

@bender@twtxt.net huh, I’ve never heard of that 🤣

thought I was following @justamoment@twtxt.net , but apparently not. Fixed 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net is the Goryon client still in development? I’m using the latest Android apk from your git repo, works fine except it wont open URLs for some reason.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de nice! I’d be pretty chuffed with that result.

@bender@twtxt.net @abucci@anthony.buc.ci fantastic, thanks guys!

But yeah now you bring it up I really should get it running under a supervisor.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahh well admittedly no (that would be too helpful!). I’ve just always nohup’d it manually. So responsible I know :p

Well to be honest I don’t know why it went down 🤣 I mean sure, watching (and using) it more often would help, but the process just died, the server itself has been up the whole time.

@justamoment I find sometimes I have to open up whatever is guarded by reCaptcha in a barebones Chromium instance. I normally use the Brave browser but I think all the privacy guarding stuff trips up the captcha. I have a lot more luck with captcha solving in stock Chromium.

That said, reCaptcha is the absolute devil!

Yeah, AI this, AI that, it’s almost smothering anywhere you go in the tech news world.

It’s going to be like the internet in general - has a heap of hype and dreams about how it will make life easier/better in various ways… and then get used and abused by Big Tech to invade our privacy and make society worse.