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The cookie popup that comes up and obscures the article before you can finish reading the title is deliciously ironic.

bborud 3y ago
If you are lucky. There's the cookie popup, the newsletter popup, the popup that wants to talk about new features....and on and on. All while macOS gives you three popups for the same calendar event, a software update that it thinks you should know about right fucking now and a slew of popups from some application you started which now wants to disrupt your flow with.....more alerts. PS: if someone knows who wrote the calendar daemon in macOS, please say hello from me and ensure they know how pathetic I think it is that they managed to spend 70-80% CPU to update calendars. Really? Do them a favor and get them application forms in the "rapid food preparation" industry.
- shortcake27 3y ago
  The Calendar app on my iPhone used 50mb of data in the last month. I have maybe 10 events in it. I can’t even begin to understand how it managed to pull 50mb. WhatsApp, which I use nonstop daily, pulled 3mb. Sure, on an unlimited cap 50mb is no problem. But when roaming it could cost a fortune. Seems like minimising resource usage is often an afterthought, even for Apple.
  - bborud 3y ago
    Hmm, it almost makes me suspicious that the calendar system is abused to move data it isn't supposed to move.
  - cbhl 3y ago
    IIRC the Calendar standards (iCal, etc) are pull-based, so your Calendar app has to poll/request the whole calendar constantly to check for new events in case you make one on another device (e.g. your computer). There are also enough edge cases that also nobody wants to change/improve on the standards. WhatsApp can send you a push when you get a message, so its usage is ~nothing if you're not sending and receiving messages.
    - bborud 3y ago
      That still doesn't explain why it has to consume huge amounts of CPU.
pwg 3y ago
With uBlock Origin set for default deny all Javascript, there are zero popup's while reading the entire article.
- HPsquared 3y ago
  A lesson for us all
- Ntrails 3y ago
  God I wish I could make that run on my iPhone. Not being able to set per domain javascript rules is fucking infuriating
  - freilanzer 3y ago
    Firefox allows you to install addons.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - HPsquared 3y ago
    Not sure about iPhone, but most browsers on Android (e.g. Chrome, Edge) let you disable JavaScript in "site settings" by default. You then opt-in for a given site by clicking the little padlock on the address bar and enabling JavaScript for the site in question. Also works for things like audio, location, etc.
    - Rediscover 3y ago
      lynx(1) on termux does this automatically. :) Yes, I use lynx as my main browser except for HN. Everything else is lynx. Further OT: My ex-father-in-law will tell me in SMS or email something to the effect of "Use a graphical browser...[to see this URL]."
    - slondr 3y ago
      Safari on iOS lets you do this in the system settings

If you are lucky. There's the cookie popup, the newsletter popup, the popup that wants to talk about new features....and on and on. All while macOS gives you three popups for the same calendar event, a software update that it thinks you should know about right fucking now and a slew of popups from some application you started which now wants to disrupt your flow with.....more alerts. PS: if someone knows who wrote the calendar daemon in macOS, please say hello from me and ensure they know how pathetic I think it is that they managed to spend 70-80% CPU to update calendars. Really? Do them a favor and get them application forms in the "rapid food preparation" industry.

shortcake27 3y ago
The Calendar app on my iPhone used 50mb of data in the last month. I have maybe 10 events in it. I can’t even begin to understand how it managed to pull 50mb. WhatsApp, which I use nonstop daily, pulled 3mb. Sure, on an unlimited cap 50mb is no problem. But when roaming it could cost a fortune. Seems like minimising resource usage is often an afterthought, even for Apple.
- bborud 3y ago
  Hmm, it almost makes me suspicious that the calendar system is abused to move data it isn't supposed to move.
- cbhl 3y ago
  IIRC the Calendar standards (iCal, etc) are pull-based, so your Calendar app has to poll/request the whole calendar constantly to check for new events in case you make one on another device (e.g. your computer). There are also enough edge cases that also nobody wants to change/improve on the standards. WhatsApp can send you a push when you get a message, so its usage is ~nothing if you're not sending and receiving messages.
  - bborud 3y ago
    That still doesn't explain why it has to consume huge amounts of CPU.

pwg 3y ago

With uBlock Origin set for default deny all Javascript, there are zero popup's while reading the entire article.

HPsquared 3y ago
A lesson for us all
Ntrails 3y ago
God I wish I could make that run on my iPhone. Not being able to set per domain javascript rules is fucking infuriating
- freilanzer 3y ago
  Firefox allows you to install addons.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- HPsquared 3y ago
  Not sure about iPhone, but most browsers on Android (e.g. Chrome, Edge) let you disable JavaScript in "site settings" by default. You then opt-in for a given site by clicking the little padlock on the address bar and enabling JavaScript for the site in question. Also works for things like audio, location, etc.
  - Rediscover 3y ago
    lynx(1) on termux does this automatically. :) Yes, I use lynx as my main browser except for HN. Everything else is lynx. Further OT: My ex-father-in-law will tell me in SMS or email something to the effect of "Use a graphical browser...[to see this URL]."
  - slondr 3y ago
    Safari on iOS lets you do this in the system settings