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Re: blog via finger

From	Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: blog via finger
Date	2026-06-14 15:30 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<110mdur$3lrvo$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2026-06-11, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> 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).
--^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The way JS frameworks require newer browsers and sites in general are
full of automation and CSS features that far outweight any performance
improvements in e.g. Firefox architecture redesigns does come across as
something quite convenient to push against not-recent-enough hardware.

Perhaps even more than entities insisting you have Windows and/or can
deal with CDF or Office Open XML.

Even if it's non-intentional, it's far too often the case that something
lighter, and not forcing specific browsers, would also work on more
browsers and machines

> Oh well, it's a licence to print money, if you can stomach it.

-- 
Nuno Silva

Thread

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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