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Re: (off topic) Forget SocMedia, What About Firefo

Posted by Neutrino on Monday, May 06 2019 at 8:33:02PM
In reply to (off topic) Forget SocMedia, What About Firefox:p posted by Eeyore on Saturday, May 04 2019 at 04:56:52AM

Shame on TOR Project maintainers for not seeing this problem in advance, and still not fixing it by this point. We're stuck with Firefox, because there is no alternative. Nothing else competes when it comes to respecting privacy while still being full featured and usable. Although ...

Some linux gurus and university hipsters are so sick of bloat, advertising, and tracking on the world wide web that they've abandoned it in favor of the gopher protocol whenever possible. Gopher might have lost to www/http as an internet protocol in the 1990's, but it still works. A raspberry pi has more than enough power to serve a gopher hole. You'll never see a gigabyte of bloat/crap when loading a hole in a lynx browser.

It would be nice to think, now that Moore's law is no longer valid, the gurus/hipsters will do things correctly, rather than quickly. I'm disgusted that universities/businesses encourage programmers to learn/use languages like javascript. I'm disgusted that manufacturers develop technologies like hyperthreading and speculative execution, which will haunt us for decades. What a waste of talent and resources. Now that we can't expect future computing power to make up for ignorant shitty coders and asinine architectures, maybe things will start to be done right by people who care about what they're doing.

I never understood why Facebook became so popular. It's obvious now that Facebook is Darpa's lifelog with lipstick, but even when it was new, I didn't get it. The first time I heard about it was when someone sent a link of their photos. Like now, I was unable to look at them because I hadn't signed up and wasn't logged in. I thought: What kind of garbage is this? There are dozens of places online for sharing photos that work, so why would anyone use this shitty site?


Neutrino





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