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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 15:36 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<110me98$3lrvo$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2026-06-12, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2026-06-12, 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.
>
> Agreed.  Web sites could be lightning-fast if they weren't downloading
> all sorts of additional cruft.  "But don't you want to have a rich
> User Experience (UX)?" the devotees will ask me.  My reply: "NO!"

Remember the site which was serving hundreds of megabytes to users and
at the same time were somehow looking for compassion because sharing
links to their site on Mastodon was somehow hammering their servers?
(IIRC they had misconfigured caching too)

<https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/05/0241211/is-mastodons-link-previewing-overloading-servers>

-- 
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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