rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

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I don't think it can have been more than about a year since I discovered Firefox's "Reader" mode, and in that relatively short time I have gotten to the point that, when I'm on my phone at least, I instinctively check for whether the icon is available on every single site and hit it the moment I see it, even if the page in question hasn't yet loaded/rendered to the point where I can even assess it's readability. I just do it, because I have literally never once seen a single case where switching to Reader mode made the site *less* usable on a mobile. Not even once. I guess this shouldn't surprise me - nobody would have gone through the trouble of writing the feature if it didn't work well. But what does it say that we have gotten to the point where its of real practical value to automate the process of routinely throwing away the entire product of the web design industry?

Holy shit, i got out in time!

Chromium automatically issues DNS lookups for 3 randomly generated domains on every startup and change of network.

Turns out this "adds up to a whopping half the total load on the root DNS servers… 60 billion bogus queries every day." Oops.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/a-chrome-feature-is-creating-enormous-load-on-global-root-dns-servers/

One criticism of a universal basic income is that it would make work optional from an economic perspective, but I don't hear as often *why* that's a bad thing. I think there's an implicit assumption that the economy needs people to work jobs that they would only do if they don't have an option to do otherwise. #ubi #economy #work

I wish I could still enjoy video games. A few minutes in, I always remember how pointless it is, so I give up.

I've been watching the videos by a #haskell programmer named #Tsoding on Twitch and YT. Tsoding appears quite knowledgeable. I just wish they'd slow down a bit.

"But artists need to eat!"

What if we didn't need to figure out how to mold our passions around the wheel of capitalism just to meet our basic human needs

At best, copyright is a bad hack pasted onto a cruel system. Capitalim does not make copyright valid in philosophical terms.

Fun fact: if present-day US copyright law had been in force at the time that Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" was made, Lewis Carol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" would not have entered the public domain for another 17 years

Maybe restricting our main form of public discourse and communication to message size and complexity customized to the bandwidth constraints of a random iteration of electronic device, and leaving it that way for an entire generation, wasn't the best idea after all.