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There is perhaps some irony in the fact that this blog was posted to Medium, which serves 10.88 MB for a 265-word article.
by claytonwramsey 2y ago
There is perhaps some irony in the fact that this blog was posted to Medium, which serves 10.88 MB for a 265-word article.
- zer00eyz 2y agoAnd browsers are larger that some operating systems. And talk about a closed off ecosystem ... WASM is still crippled and JS/HTML/CSS is your only real viable option for web development. The web feels like 2005 again. Only thing is, this time the popups are embedded in the page...
- vnuge 2y agoI think I would prefer 2005 web again. I'd probably be able to see more of the internet. I use heavy DNS filtering, no javascript on untrusted sites, no cookies, no fonts, VPN and so on. With cloudflare blocking me I basically can't see the majority of websites.
- snoman 2y agoOh don’t worry. Once dns-over-https becomes standard, you won’t be able to do any dns filtering anymore.
- vnuge 2y agoWhy not? I can still mitm DOH now? I try to use DOH for everything I have. I did recently switch to self hosted recursive resolution.
- prmoustache 2y agoI don't know about other browsers but on firefox I can decide which DNS server is used for DNS over https.
- apantel 2y agoThe ads are the real content from Medium’s perspective. The article is actually the medium by which the real content is delivered, like a train carrying dark passengers. The article is not what Medium cares about delivering to your browser, but the ads. And delivering the ads requires a lot of complexity.
- collinrapp 2y ago…what ads? See the last paragraph here [0]. Obviously your statement is true about most other sites, but I thought it was an odd thing to say about a platform that famously doesn’t serve ads. [0] https://medium.com/about https://medium.com/about
- Animats 2y agoThe article is an ad: "*** provides uptime monitoring and flow-based monitoring for APIs." This is an important subject, thus it's one for which clickbait is generated. Size is a problem. I look at my Rust compiles scroll by, and wonder "why is that in there?". I managed to get tokio out, which took some effort. The whole "zbus" system was pulled in because the program asks if the user is in "dark mode". That brought in the "event-listener" system. Lately, "bash" in a Linux console has become much slower about echoing characters. Did someone stick in spell check, or a LLM for autocomplete, or something?
- fragmede 2y agoI'd check your .bashrc because that shouldn't be happening without your say so.
- Animats 2y ago.bashrc hasn't change since 2021. But Ubuntu pushed a new /usr/bin/bash in mid-March.
- NoGravitas 2y agoIt's more likely to be system-provided config files like bash-completions.
- pointer_pointer 2y ago[dead]
- Aloisius 2y agoFirefox about:process reports the article taking 239 MB of memory and 0.06-0.2% of my CPU ten minutes after it finished loading - 45% of the CPU time seems to be spent in Google's reCAPTCHA. I wish Mozilla or Google or someone aggregated statistics for cpu/memory/energy usage by domain to shame devs who clearly don't otherwise care.
- kmstout 2y agoIt's fine in a text-mode browser.
- anthk 2y agoFor that I fire up a Gemini browser against gemini://gemi.dev/bin/waffle.cgi and paste the URL. For non Gemini network users, just change medium.com to scribe.rip at the URL.