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Define what exactly it means to participate in the modern society.

by riffic 8y ago

tedunangst 8y ago
Load a page of tweets.
- dijit 8y ago
  I think that’s kind of flippant. The reality is that it’s very difficult to apply for jobs or even do banking effectively without internet access and a capable browser. I think this is what the parent means by “engage with society”. Although, I think a rPI is capable, even if it would be frustratingly slow.
  - yellowapple 8y ago
    Flippant or not, it's a good demonstration of how a prerequisite of participating in a Twitter-and-Facebook-driven modern society is using a computer that's powerful enough to handle all the garbage those two companies insist upon running on said computer whenever you so much as think of participating in said society. The World Wide Web would be a much better place if web developers/designers showed even the slightest bit of restraint when it comes to shoving arbitrary Turing-complete code down my throat. Statistically-speaking, 95+% of it doesn't benefit me in the slightest, and there's a special place in hell for those who write websites such that I have to put up with that 95% that's garbage just to use the site at all. Loading 10 or 20 or even 1000 140-character tweets should be possible even on an old DOS PC with dialup, and yet even 10-year-old PCs with multiple orders of magnitude more processing power and network speed/bandwidth struggle with that.
blurpify 8y ago
Run thirty ad tracker scripts, ten tracking pixels, fifty 3MB animated gifs, two HD videos set to autoplay at full volume, a realtime websocket CRM chat panel, a raytraced particle simulation in a canvas graphics context, eye tracking and UX interaction captures, geoloction and passive microphone recording for keyword events or ambient cueing from other media channels in the room like home automation identifiers, and cryptocurrency block chain mining inbetween.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
At the very minimum, using the sites of your local and national government, and your bank. Normal levels of participation involve using e-mail, search engines, information sites, reading news, buying things on-line and social media. Most of those sites are incredibly bloated. Even bank dashboards have become increasingly heavy (for near zero value added).

Define what exactly it means to participate in the modern society.

by riffic 8y ago

Define what exactly it means to participate in the modern society.

tedunangst 8y ago

Load a page of tweets.

dijit 8y ago
I think that’s kind of flippant. The reality is that it’s very difficult to apply for jobs or even do banking effectively without internet access and a capable browser. I think this is what the parent means by “engage with society”. Although, I think a rPI is capable, even if it would be frustratingly slow.
- yellowapple 8y ago
  Flippant or not, it's a good demonstration of how a prerequisite of participating in a Twitter-and-Facebook-driven modern society is using a computer that's powerful enough to handle all the garbage those two companies insist upon running on said computer whenever you so much as think of participating in said society. The World Wide Web would be a much better place if web developers/designers showed even the slightest bit of restraint when it comes to shoving arbitrary Turing-complete code down my throat. Statistically-speaking, 95+% of it doesn't benefit me in the slightest, and there's a special place in hell for those who write websites such that I have to put up with that 95% that's garbage just to use the site at all. Loading 10 or 20 or even 1000 140-character tweets should be possible even on an old DOS PC with dialup, and yet even 10-year-old PCs with multiple orders of magnitude more processing power and network speed/bandwidth struggle with that.

blurpify 8y ago

Run thirty ad tracker scripts, ten tracking pixels, fifty 3MB animated gifs, two HD videos set to autoplay at full volume, a realtime websocket CRM chat panel, a raytraced particle simulation in a canvas graphics context, eye tracking and UX interaction captures, geoloction and passive microphone recording for keyword events or ambient cueing from other media channels in the room like home automation identifiers, and cryptocurrency block chain mining inbetween.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

At the very minimum, using the sites of your local and national government, and your bank. Normal levels of participation involve using e-mail, search engines, information sites, reading news, buying things on-line and social media. Most of those sites are incredibly bloated. Even bank dashboards have become increasingly heavy (for near zero value added).