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The 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 p

The 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 ago
The 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 ago
  I'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 ago
      It's more likely to be system-provided config files like bash-completions.
      - Animats 2y ago
        It's Ubuntu, with their automatic updates. Canonical is now at least as intrusive as Microsoft was in the days of Windows 7.
- boustrophedon 2y ago
  I'm not sure if it's related, but I have the git branch in my PS1 and I've noticed that it's much slower to show a new prompt when inside very large repositories now, and I don't think that was the case previously.

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 ago

The 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 ago
I'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 ago
    It's more likely to be system-provided config files like bash-completions.
    - Animats 2y ago
      It's Ubuntu, with their automatic updates. Canonical is now at least as intrusive as Microsoft was in the days of Windows 7.
boustrophedon 2y ago
I'm not sure if it's related, but I have the git branch in my PS1 and I've noticed that it's much slower to show a new prompt when inside very large repositories now, and I don't think that was the case previously.