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jbz<p>「 Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.</p><p>This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.</p><p>It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” 」</p><p><a href="https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jonoalderson.com/conjecture/ja</span><span class="invisible">vascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bloat</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>Lest we forget.</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bloat</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phpc.social/@Crell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Crell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://girldick.gay/@alina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alina</span></a></span> It's not an <a href="https://phpc.social/@Crell/114825324555043019" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ignorant rant.</a></p><ul><li>I've made peace with it, just as I've made peace never touching <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> ever again.</li></ul><p>You may call me an <em>"opinionated asshole"</em> from your point of view, but I sincerely wish I was wrong.</p><ul><li>Look where all the absurd complexity got us: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NSAbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSAbook</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a>-based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> that mines <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/shitcoins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shitcoins</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tracking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cookies</span></a>. </li></ul><p>The real cost doesn't come through to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/consoomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consoomers</span></a> except as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ReducedLifecycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReducedLifecycle</span></a> due to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bloat</span></a>. </p><p>But then again what do I expect from a coward doing the reply &amp; block - combo, because confronting the fact that people got burned out by shit like PHP would mean admitting mistakes, and we can't have that as a fanboy. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EOD</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/thxbye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thxbye</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>next</span></a></p>
...a pleasant rascal<p>Mobile phone app <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bloat</span></a> is taking over my aging phone's storage allotment.<br>There's a good article topic for you <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> out there.<br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/mediumformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediumformat</span></a></p>

Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people
need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but
is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.

TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.

#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant

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IpseityIpseityA family instance.
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@Eatsbluecrayon @VQuaschning genau darauf will ich hinaus;

  • Es bedarf mehr Fahrzeuge der Klassen #L2e, #L5e & Co. welche deutlich effizienter sind.

Also weniger [Leer-]Gewicht, besserer Cw und damit auch mehr #Reichweite.

  • Ganz davon abgesehen dass in den Leistungsklassen ≤4kW, 4-15kW & 15-35kW sicherlich be Menge mehr machbar ist, wie wir bei Motorrädern sehen können!

Statt #SuperUselessVehicle|s mit €50.000-€100.000+ Verkaufspreis bedarf es Lösungen im Bereich ≤€10.000, wenn nicht sogar ≤€5.000.

Was mich stört ist dass es quasi keine #PersonalLightVehicle|s im Bereich <35kW gibt die per #CCS2-Stecker schnellgeladen werden können und ich auch nur 1 Luxus-#Roller von #BMW kenne welcher bei 15kW Maximalleistung an ner #Ladesäule gem. Ladesäulenverordnung aufladbar ist.

GitHubGitHub - KBtechnologies/PLV: Personal Light Vehicle - SpecificationPersonal Light Vehicle - Specification. Contribute to KBtechnologies/PLV development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@david_chisnall @Avitus @lucasmz @signalapp espechally with a #Shitcoin that is neither private (unlike #Monero) nor has any markets & trading volue (unlike Monero) and doesn't provide any added features compared existing #Cryptocurrencies and "#TradFinance"...

  • And even then: Your reasoning is 100% valid, as it's just adding #bloat compared to functionality (unlike #TextSecure which did make sense as it encrypted #SMS!)...
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@bagder Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.

  • I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?

  • Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??

In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.

  • Maybe someone who wants to have said functionality like tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #neocurl or sth. along those lines or build something like #ethcurl or #torcurlor #ipfscurl or whatever...

That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...

  • I consider curl to be "the #vim of downloaders" (tho that's kinda insulting and limiting since curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...

Either way, curl is awesome...

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