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mindbleach ,

This is not agreement:

You are right.

mindbleach ,

“Both sides,” says one side.

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Robbing us of the excellent fan name “Dinklebot.”

mindbleach ,

See also The Website Obesity Crisis, nearly a decade ago.

Here’s an article on GigaOm from 2012 titled “The Growing Epidemic of Page Bloat”. It warns that the average web page is over a megabyte in size.

The article itself is 1.8 megabytes long.

The problem with picking any particular size as a threshold is that it encourages us to define deviancy down. Today’s egregiously bloated site becomes tomorrow’s typical page, and next year’s elegantly slim design.

The author links their tweet saying “your website should not exceed in file size the major works of Russian literature.” At the time, that page on Twitter was 900 KB. Today it is 11 MB.

mindbleach ,

A UserScript or UserStyle could fix it up.

And make some clueless Facebook addict with seventeen toolbars scream “You haCKED OUR WEBSITE?!”

mindbleach ,

Modern Firefox has “Reader View” that does a similar thing. It’s just less customizable… because it’s modern Firefox.

Does a disservice to the color-coded table on this article, though.

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“Full rich webpages” on a 2007 iPhone meant bare HTML and a kilobyte of Javascript. Anything fancy would be in Flash because JS was slow as balls, and the iPhone never ran Flash.

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Shit, I might use that on a desktop with broadband.

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And a lot of that is tracking nonsense.

That’s in the slides. It’s one of my favorites:

https://static.pinboard.in/ob/thumbs/ob.041.thumb.png

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If we’re counting now and into the future, the EU has coerced them to finally tolerate other browsers.

… not that I’m aware of any current browser with Flash support.

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It’s just stupid enough, you know they’re gonna try it. Straight-up guys being dudes.

“Hon hon.”

“Hon hon.”

“…”

“Merde.”

mindbleach ,

But then I can’t do French WWI Beavis & Butthead.

mindbleach ,

It got swallowed by CPUs pretty quickly. On 386 it was a real coprocessor: the 387. On 486 it was a whole CPU that disabled the first CPU. The 487 was just a 486 with floating-point built-in.

But it still checked that you had a genuine Intel 486 installed, or it wouldn’t run. Because money.

mindbleach ,

Turns out he loves anime tits.

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“You know how clockwork automatons work?”

“No.”

“Me neither.”

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The only question I’d have for a druid / bard is, “You holding?”

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Heretical scripture it is.

mindbleach ,

Half these comments wildly overcomplicate their job.

‘Imagine an entire city could see a bard perform!’ You run a theater, calm down. They’re old as rocks.

‘I’m an erotic cosplayer, so I don’t know if they’d follow.’ Honey, people in the 18th century knew about sex work.

Everyone in software has to hand-wave some magic. Your new peasant buddy can probably grasp… printing.

mindbleach ,

At some point that reductionism might as well be ‘I perform labor for wages.’ Like if the guy gets follow-up questions, he might ask you for help fixing his tools, and you might pick up hammer from the wrong end.

But any real effort does boil down to-- how’d that one comment put it? “Whispering to the lightning through the haunted frame.” Either there are layers of ‘okay imagine this other bizarre technology’ or you’re just telling this guy that you can grab written words and drag them across the paper.

mindbleach ,

Deserves a proper Escher version, where the arrows connect and form a fractal. The really wide heads and tails almost look like a reptile print already.

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The 30% cut is an obscene standard that needs to be reduced on PC, console, and mobile. Taking an entire third off-the-top as nothing but a middleman and file-server is indefensible. Valve doesn’t even control their platform - they shoved their way onto computers via HL2 and now perpetuate an overwhelming market share. Then as now, it is a problem that games require any online DRM launcher.

Tim can still get bent.

EGS by all accounts does fuck-all to attract users or sellers, beyond adjusting that cut, and it is still a project that exists primarily as rent-seeking for that cut.

Same deal for Fortnite on iOS: their excuses are pretense for taking 30% of everything spent on an app or IN an app, on every iPhone. They once strongarmed Facebook out of even mentioning that. Furthermore, people must have software freedom. It is intolerable that Apple ever restricted what you install on your own goddamn phone.

Fortnite should be unavailable because Fortnite should be illegal.

Nothing inside a video game should cost money. Real-money charges make games objectively less enjoyable. Maximum revenue comes from addiction to manufactured discontent. It is infecting every platform, genre, and price point. It is in single-player games. if we allow this to continue there will be nothing else.

mindbleach ,

Getting paid half as much to be a middleman as the developers get paid to make the goddamn game is obscene. Especially for Steam, a pseudo-monopoly on a platform they did not make. Steam is a program for Windows PCs from a company that makes neither Windows nor PCs.

Well, I guess they kinda do both, now. Nevertheless. 30% to be the gatekeeper is quite a fucking cut.

mindbleach ,

An outlier makes systemic problems disappear.

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An offer made generously because they know it won’t matter. They’re basically a monopoly.

mindbleach ,

Smug nothing. Try again.

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Steam community or not, the glib defense of rent-seeking behavior on lemmy.ml is wild.

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They have an overwhelming majority that makes assorted competitors individually irrelevant. Jesus, do I hate having to say “they have an overwhelming majority that makes assorted competitors individually irrelevant,” just because people get in a snit about the word “monopoly.”

You know Standard Oil didn’t own all the oil - right? They peaked around 85% of sales. They had many competitors. Those competitors did not matter.

For every game that’s done well outside Steam, there’s ten that eventually came to Steam and sold massively better than before. That jump is the power Steam wields. That is why we regulate competition, beyond ‘do competitors exist.’

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The 30% is.

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A short list of the biggest fucking games in half a dozen genres. Do you know what an outlier is? There’s not just the one.

As a direct comparison: Fortnite probably installed a lot of Android copies outside the Play Store. But surely 99.9% of Android games are still installed through the Play Store. No matter how hard any particular ultra-popular game could have gone, the reality for an overwhelming majority of cases is that being outside that one store is death.

mindbleach ,

Only for companies as big as Epic.

For the overwhelming majority of developers: it’s 30%. Keys sell, but who’s buying?

Steam’s primary functionality is its market share. They could do a lot less and nothing would change. They stay big because they are big.

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And yet: 75%.

They can hand out keys with no strings attached, and it does not matter.

mindbleach ,

What, did a wizard curse this number upon them? Gaben could say “make it twenty” with a shrug, and it’d be done by close-of-business.

mindbleach ,

Fascists make up whatever bullshit they want.

Jagex co-founder and ex-employee (Andrew Gower) announces new MMORPG inspired by RuneScape (store.steampowered.com)

I mean, when I saw an ex-Jagex employee making a new MMO I thought it was going to be slightly inspired by RuneScape… But this game looks exactly like RuneScape, and the description of the gameplay also matches it perfectly - this is essentially RuneScape 3 but managed by someone else (and with a much newer engine)

mindbleach ,

this is essentially RuneScape 3 but managed by someone else (and with a much newer engine)

Genuinely a glowing endorsement.

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Arguably even Fandom / Wikia is ruined by plain old greed more than centralization. What’s wrong with it isn’t content, it’s the fact every page loads seven ads, a roll of clickbait, and a goddamn Discord server. A weird blog site for editable text and tiny images would work fine if it wasn’t twisted to feed Engagemagog.

mindbleach ,

“Losing.”

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Phrased differently, “it has been 50 years since a Star Trek show ended without a Jonathan Frakes appearance.”

mindbleach ,

Stop fucking asking people to justify their use case, when they want something that clearly exists elsewhere.

mindbleach ,

It’s a horrible kludge of a feature that fixes weird problems. That’s gonna be true regardless of OS, and regardless of which exact problems OP has.

mindbleach ,

Then OP will find out this isn’t something they need.

You should still answer the question, instead of questioning the question.

It is infuriating how every technical question has to be justified, as if ‘why do you want that?’ is always a relevant and wise question. Even though it’s omnipresent, effortless, and adds literally nothing by itself.

mindbleach ,

Making up a stupid analogy totally excuses the million derailed threads where someone genuinely just needs something you don’t.

Stop letting your ignorance prevent them from solving their ignorance. Answer the goddamn question, first. Feel free to snit at them - after.

mindbleach ,

A conversation is not harassment. You are choosing to continue having it.

I know OP was trying to kludge some weird problem - that is why I said as much, yesterday. People don’t ask how to restart their graphics driver for fun.

They need help. “But why do you want that?” almost never helps. It is help prevention. It is where tech support threads end bitterly. Try ‘here’s the answer, please don’t,’ then doing the thing you did.

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But asking it often results in neither answer.

Third time: by all means, ask the question AFTER a direct answer. A direct answer absolves any too-clever “X/Y problem” philosophizing. And obviously people would love to just not have the problems they’re trying to kludge.

But that’s not what they came here to ask for.

mindbleach ,

What a dishonest reading of the chronology of this conversation.

And a hypocritical effort to make about us, instead of about the subject.

mindbleach ,

Stop lining up to function names like it’s fucking ASCII art!

It’s a hierarchy, not a grid! Did your function overflow one line? Add an extra tab. I don’t give a shit how long your function name is, you prima donna, your code should look clean even if some maniac is using 12-point Arial.

mindbleach ,

Yeah who ever questions established practices in programming. Nobody ever argues about style.

mindbleach ,

Arguments on first line will not compile unless using precise alignment to function name

UGH!

Just-- yech!

mindbleach ,

The Wimp Lo doctrine is a valid theory for why JS is Like That.

If there’s two ways to do something, JS picks all three.

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