Jean-Karim Bockstael @jkb@octodon.social

Doom was released 25 years ago today. It was about 2.39 MB, the size of an average webpage today. News sites average closer to 8 MB.

Please shotgun the javascript demons and make more efficient & accessible websites.

@jkb Apes (and humans) are more closely related to old world monkeys or circopithecidae which have non-prehensile tails. New world monkeys or atelidae have prehensile tails and are evolutionarily more distantly related to humans. So I would think humans would have non-prehensile tails more similar to macaques and baboons rather than the prehensile tales of spider monkeys. But if we did have tails they would interfere with our upright bipedal gait and big butts.

If you ever wondered if there is anything useful you can do with DRM. Signal actually found a use-case.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

Use it to verify that the server-side code is the code you expect it to be. It's still not perfect, but a very interesting way to use it.

#DRM #Signal #freeSoftware

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People are converting Bird/Lime scooters into personal vehicles for $32. 🛴

1. Steal a Bird off the street (easy)
2. Buy a $32 kit on eBay
3. Rip out Bird's board, replace with yours
4. Profit

https://scootertalk.org/viewtopic.php?p=1643&fbclid=IwAR0-b9xJKny5r5adXwc6gocfXbqZ9scA1fpgX5t8L7f7afbT9RZU33Exqnk#p1643 https://twitter.com/nickabouzeid/status/1070036774871650304/photo/1

Advertising rules everything around me...
#SavorFortune

#puppymonkeybaby

https://mastodon.social/media/YEKGKEzmKqsX0qEbeHM

retoot to support this hardworking single mom

"Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell" https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-gigafactory/

Pre-order Meeple Station for instant beta access, what the developers say is like Rimworld in space https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/pre-order-meeple-station-for-instant-beta-access-what-the-developers-say-is-like-rimworld-in-space.13167 #EarlyAccess #Simulation #Strategy #Beta

Joker: Do you want to know how I got these scars?

me: I don’t see any

Joker: they’re emotional

me: oh

Joker: my father you see-

me: isn’t there a therapist you could be seeing for this?

Joker: I was but it got to where I couldn’t afford it. It’s that or eating, you see?

me: damn ain’t that some shit

Joker: why do you think I steal?

me: I guess the real joke was the American healthcare system all along

[Reading] "Write good git commit message", Matej Jellus (@juffalow@twitter.com) https://juffalow.com/other/write-good-git-commit-message

Why I've given up on watching television news.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/12/13/every-time-i-watch-the-news-every-time/

"JavaScript growth and third parties" by Steve Souders https://speedcurve.com/blog/javascript-growth/

"JavaScript is the main cause for making websites slow. [Compared to 7 years ago, ] 1st-party JS doubled from 53 KB to 106 KB. 3rd-party JS octupled (!) from 32 KB to 258 KB."

What's most remarkable is that this happened even with the rise of bundlers, which effectively make 3rd-party JS "look" like 1st-party. In other words, that 1st-party growth is probably node_modules; the 3rd-party growth is ads/trackers/???.