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Re: blog via finger

From	gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens)
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: blog via finger
Date	2026-06-13 06:34 +0000
Organization	Sonologic AB
Message-ID	<110itmg$1ofk$1@nntp.sonologic.net> (permalink)
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Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
> 
>> On 2026-06-11, Koen Martens <gmc@metro.cx> wrote:
>>
>>> It's always something, we're at the point where the house of
>>> cards that is modern software is collapsing. Add in slop from
>>> LLMs, and you have the bankrupcy of computing. It's over.
>>
>>     Clear analysis of any situation is often mistaken for pessimism.
>>       -- Barbara Hambly: The Walls of Air
>>
>> My wife's Macbook is running more and more slowly and web sites
>> are hanging.  The word from the local Genius Bar is that she
>> needs a new machine.  Not because there's anything wrong with
>> it, but the current generation of bloatware is bogging it down
>> (sometimes, I suspect, deliberately).
>>
>> Oh well, it's a licence to print money, if you can stomach it.
> 
> It's not just the bloat on the machine itself, it's the bloat on the
> site as well.  The modern web is a dumpster fire.

Absolutely. Up until recently all we had at my house was a crappy
4G uplink. The web was completely unusable with that. We now have
fiber, so I don't notice it too much anymore, except when the
laptop fan goes crazy on some particularly badly put together
site.

Thankfully, gopher is still around & active.

Cheers,

Koen

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blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-08 18:00 -0700
  Re: blog via finger Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-09 09:50 +0100
  Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-09 09:31 +0000
  Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-5g5-this> - 2026-06-09 07:32 -0700
    Re: blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-09 12:02 -0700
      Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-vti-this> - 2026-06-10 06:58 -0700
        Re: blog via finger Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-06-10 11:35 -0700
          Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-10 23:51 +0000
            Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-11 11:09 +0000
              Re: blog via finger Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-11 19:02 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-06-12 13:44 -0400
                Re: blog via finger Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-12 18:52 +0000
                Re: blog via finger drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2026-06-12 19:54 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:36 +0100
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-13 06:34 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:39 +0100
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:30 +0100
              Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 00:10 +0000
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-12 15:20 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 23:50 +0000
                Re: blog via finger scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-06-13 14:46 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-06-14 13:27 -0400
                Re: blog via finger Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 23:48 +0000
                Re: blog via finger "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-25-this> - 2026-06-15 07:10 -0700
                Re: blog via finger John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 08:17 -0700
                Re: blog via finger mechanicjay@sol.smbfc.net (Mechanicjay) - 2026-06-13 01:09 +0000
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:52 +0100
                Re: blog via finger Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-14 15:49 +0100
                Re: blog via finger gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-06-14 16:21 +0000
        Re: blog via finger Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2026-06-11 07:50 +0200

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