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Sorry to comment on the site and not the article, but goddamn. I have an old phone and visiting news sites like wired make it as hot as if I'm playing a video g

Sorry to comment on the site and not the article, but goddamn. I have an old phone and visiting news sites like wired make it as hot as if I'm playing a video game, and the page had to reload several times like it ran out of memory. I lost 15% of my battery in 2 minutes of reading. Wired (and other news sites), what the hell are you doing to computers? Stop it. People on newer phones may not notice it, but they're still burning just as many cycles on whatever stupid bullshit you decided to add to your site. Maybe we wouldn't need so many air conditioners if sites like yours didn't exist.

explaininjs 2y ago
This makes me want an LLM that traces every line of code running on a site and provides a summary… “when you scrolled the page 2 pixels just now, it triggered 500 network requests to various tracking sites. additionally, it forced redrawing the site 3 times, and consumed 400ms of GPU time.”
- ohthatsnotright 2y ago
  Why on earth would you involve a larger waste of resources to summarize something which is capturable and displayable without?
  - explaininjs 2y ago
    I’m happy to sift through a .cpuprofile and create an intelligent actionable summary of it if I’m at work and that’s the job they’re paying me to do. And very often they do pay me quite handsomely for my ability to do just that! But if I’m not at work, I frankly don’t care enough. A single button “take trade for 1 second and send it to GPT4” is the level of effort I’m willing to freedom dedicate to these folks’ crap.
tijtij 2y ago
I have newerish phone and I still run Kiwi Browser with the uBlock Origin extension for this very reason.
skybrian 2y ago
This is a case where the archive link really helps. See: https://archive.is/IXVvu https://archive.is/IXVvu
kjkjadksj 2y ago
The mobile web is shit like this now. I avoid it like the plague and just wait until I can get in front of a desktop os with proper ad blocking.
HPsquared 2y ago
Advertising nudge from phone makers? "My phone is too slow to browse the web, I need a new one". Especially on a "tech magazine" like Wired, the ultimate purpose is to advertise tech.

explaininjs 2y ago

This makes me want an LLM that traces every line of code running on a site and provides a summary… “when you scrolled the page 2 pixels just now, it triggered 500 network requests to various tracking sites. additionally, it forced redrawing the site 3 times, and consumed 400ms of GPU time.”

ohthatsnotright 2y ago
Why on earth would you involve a larger waste of resources to summarize something which is capturable and displayable without?
- explaininjs 2y ago
  I’m happy to sift through a .cpuprofile and create an intelligent actionable summary of it if I’m at work and that’s the job they’re paying me to do. And very often they do pay me quite handsomely for my ability to do just that! But if I’m not at work, I frankly don’t care enough. A single button “take trade for 1 second and send it to GPT4” is the level of effort I’m willing to freedom dedicate to these folks’ crap.

tijtij 2y ago

I have newerish phone and I still run Kiwi Browser with the uBlock Origin extension for this very reason.

skybrian 2y ago

This is a case where the archive link really helps. See: https://archive.is/IXVvu https://archive.is/IXVvu

kjkjadksj 2y ago

The mobile web is shit like this now. I avoid it like the plague and just wait until I can get in front of a desktop os with proper ad blocking.

HPsquared 2y ago

Advertising nudge from phone makers? "My phone is too slow to browse the web, I need a new one". Especially on a "tech magazine" like Wired, the ultimate purpose is to advertise tech.