kibiz0r

@kibiz0r@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those additional requests will reuse the existing connection, so they’ll have more bandwidth at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  14kB club: “Amateurs!!!”

  dev.to/…/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in…

  a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial.

  This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And now something much worse than SEO is gearing up to take its place: engadget.com/researchers-find-just-250-malicious-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The original source was much more sensible.

  The comparison makes sense for evaluating whether you’re over-invested in something. Like, if Nvidia suddenly poofed out of existence, would it seriously be worth 16% of everything the whole country makes in a year to get it back?

  Owning a car that’s worth 16% of your yearly income sounds reasonable, no matter what your actual income is. A Pokemon card collection that’s 16% of your income is probably too risky, no matter what your actual income is.

  Also, GDP is a decent scale to use for charting investment in a productivity tool, because if GDP ramped up at the same time as investment then it looks less like a bubble, even if they both ramp up quickly.

  But that’s not what we see. We see a sudden and volatile shift, nothing like the normal pattern before the hype.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Review season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But why the Random Capitalization?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF BIT ME?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a flea, based on this: brightside.me/…/10-bug-bites-anyone-should-be-abl…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just comments… with chapters…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the developer experience was shit.

  They tried to leverage their decades of prior investment and use it as an advantage, but what it actually felt like was a wobbly Jenga tower where every little thing had a caveat and no clear happy path.

  Contrast that with iOS, where it felt like they basically started from scratch.

  I think Microsoft thought they were lowering the barrier to entry by allowing existing WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight (lol) devs to reuse their stuff, but in practice it made it harder to get started. Every app felt like a legacy codebase from the jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to say, actually.

  • .NET took an unexpected turn towards cross-platform FOSS
  • A third major player in the smartphone market may have abated the enshittificatory forces for a bit longer
  • Having a platform that’s consumer-oriented, in contrast to their mostly business-oriented offerings today, might have clued them in to consumer sentiment a little better
  • Having a viable path towards profitability might have made the all-in gamble on OpenAI less appealing
  • Butterfly effect etc.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We shut down companies for it though, and what AI vendors are doing is basically selling the ability to turn job roles into “accountability sinks”, where your true value is in taking the fall for AI when it gets it wrong (…enough that someone successfully sues).

  If you want to put it in gun terms: The AI vendors are selling a gun that automatically shoots at some targets but not others. The targets it recommends are almost always profitable in the short term, but not always legal. You must hire a person to sit next to the gun and stop it from shooting illegal targets. It can shoot 1000 targets per minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They attract mosquitoes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they cherry-pick that average income is up vs previous generations, adjusted for inflation.

  Okay, but… cost of living has gone up. Not just for the things that existed 40 years ago, but also from the new things that are necessary for maintaining a career, like broadband internet and a smartphone.

  They had a guy in the article that owes 200k in student loans! This is not apples-to-apples.

  And also, so what if it’s up in average? Inequality is the worst it’s ever been. They barely sneak an asterisk in to address that, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is capitalism we’re experiencing, but it’s treating capitalism as the only tool in the toolbox and structuring an entire culture around it.

  Markets work great for some things. Not everything. Currency works great for some things. Not everything.

  Anonymous transferrable shares of ownership, and all of the abstract financial instruments that spin out of that one simple mechanism… are honestly not very good for many things at all, but they’ve become the primary assets that our economy optimizes for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kingslayer85 is an okay name I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English moment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My stream of consciousness: “What? Reed isn’t pronounced like led. Oh there’s more here… Ohhh, red is pronounced like leed. Er, reed is pronounced like… uhhh… anyway, I get it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luddites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but like… the Luddites were right though.

  They weren’t opposed to technology. In many cases, they were the ones who built the machines they would later destroy.

  They were opposed to letting capital owners dictate how the technology was used. They worried that they would end up working longer hours, in worse conditions, for less pay.

  They died (and killed) to prevent this — to the point where destroying a knitting frame was declared a capital offense.

  While they did get disbanded eventually, they also laid the groundwork for modern labor rights.

  Which is why it’s super disappointing that their name has become a derogatory term for being stuck in the past, when they were ultimately calling for a progressive technological revolution that we have still failed to achieve today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.

  Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.

  Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.

  With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.

  Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.

  Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.

  So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.

  If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?

  That seems to be where we’re headed.

  What happens to the misbehavers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JSON Statham⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hypertext Transporter Protocol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  assault

  Actually, I think it’s made with a sugar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Quit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the marshmallow test:

  But the marshmallow test is a tricky one. Replication studies reveal impor­tant details that are missing from Mischel’s triumphant analysis. On average, the kids who “fail” and eat the marshmallow rather than waiting and doubling their haul were poorer, while the “patient” kids were from wealthier back­grounds. When the “impatient” kids were asked about the thought process that led to their decision to eat the marshmallow rather than holding out for two, they revealed a great deal of future-looking thought.

  The adults in these kids’ lives had broken their promises many times: Their parents would promise material comforts, from toys to treats, that they were ultimately unable to provide due to economic hardship. Teachers and other authority figures would routinely lie to these kids, out of some mix of overly optimistic projection about the resources they’d be given to help the kids in their care, or the knowledge that the kids’ poor, time-strapped, frantic parents wouldn’t be able to retaliate against them for lying.

  So the kids had carefully observed the world they operated in and con­cluded, on balance of probability, that eating the marshmallow was the safe bet. At the very least, it foreclosed on the possibility that the adults running the experiment would come back in 15 minutes and declare that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were taking back the original marshmallow, rather than providing two of them. They were thinking about the future, in other words.

  These kids didn’t grow up to do worse in school and life because they lacked self-control: Those outcomes were dictated by America’s two-tier education system, which funds schools based on local property taxes, topped up by parental donations, which means that poor neighborhoods get poor schools. If these kids’ brains show up differently on a scan 20 years later, Occam’s Razor dictates that this is caused by a life of desperation and precarity, whose stresses are compounded by inadequate health-care.

  locusmag.com/…/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longterm…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this the best place to post questions about these retro emulation handhelds?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To the extent that a retro handheld community exists on Lemmy, this is it.

  I’ve bought a lot of these things. RG35XXSP, Miyoo Mini Plus, Retroid Pocket 3+, Retroid Pocket 5, DataFrog SF2000. Some random $5 bullshits off AliExpress for a toddler to destroy.

  I’ve given out a few Miyoo Mini Plusses as gifts. They’re really the perfect balance of comfort and portability. They’re performant enough to do everything you’d want to do in that form factor, but cheap enough that I don’t mind keeping it in my backpack 24/7. The stock firmware is fine, and Onion is excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sleep just like you stand

  Well, my standing posture isn’t far off from fetal position either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohio never sleeps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s happened before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI bubble will pop by 2030. (I fucking hope.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk.

  It was hard to find things even with a search engine, and it was full of scams and spyware, and obnoxious designs that got in the way of the real content, and the most popular chat rooms were run by power-tripping nerds with too much free time and an endless interest in CSAM and Nazi ideology.

  Not like today, where… uh… well…