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Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by metalrain » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

woliveirajr wrote: post #2

Low-latency isn't the only problem, I think. The small-enought latency seems to be worst: you click somehing and wait for the reward just few ms later. Incresing this wait to seconds prevents this effect.

What if we just open our filter bubbles so that not every click has that effect?

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by cdoxsey » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

You might find freedom.to useful. You can block websites for certain times of the day and it works with all devices.

I've found that if you can break the habit of reaching to some site when you're bored the addiction falls off pretty quick.

Programming has a lot downtime sometimes - waiting for a build or a long test run - and there's sometimes a steep context switch to working on something else. (At least for me if I start something new I'll forget what I was working on before) It's those times when I found myself on Twitter or Reddit.

One thing I've been trying to do instead is read an actual book - non-fiction does ok, I can usually follow the argument reading a few paragraphs at a time. And Kindle makes it easy to read in your browser and pick up where you left off on an e-reader.

One tricky thing though: I blocked YouTube only to be reminded that Google's login still goes through a YouTube domain, so I inadvertently made it harder to login :(.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

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Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by brosinante » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

karatestomp wrote: post #7

Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear. They are astonishing surprises. It’s what I ordered the cat food the espresso machine the two new tables. Ordering things and how they appear basically I am a small-scale sorcerer. On the road I press the button and the music goes. Air conditioning gas pedal restaurant take-out etc. It is my will being perpetually sated. Pretend we are writing a fable in…

Sure but also, is this what we "want"? (for wildly varying definitions of the word want.)

Takeaway available with the press of a button is certainly not what my soul wants.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by cdoxsey » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

olliej wrote: post #14

I also use Comcast.

Here's an app that simulates bad networks named Comcast:

https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast

:)

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by chalst » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

Any recommendations for a Firefox alternative to Crackbook Revival?

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by stevefan1999 » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

So how do you calculate the expected added latency?

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by vincent-toups » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

This rules.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by penagwin » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

purplezooey wrote: post #3

this is a fascinating idea but I had never heard of Charles Proxy

It's really great for a lot of network testing. It let's you intercept and modify requests/responses directly which is great for testing front end /backend input sanitization.

Re: I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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Post by Udik » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

brosinante wrote: post #24

karatestomp wrote: post #7

Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear. They are astonishing surprises. It’s what I ordered the cat food the espresso machine the two new tables. Ordering things and how they appear basically I am a small-scale sorcerer. On the road I press the button and the music goes. Air conditioning gas pedal restaurant take-out etc. It is my will being perpetually sated. Pretend we are writing a fable in…

Sure but also, is this what we "want"? (for wildly varying definitions of the word want.) Takeaway available with the press of a button is certainly not what my soul wants.

Sure we do. These are our small-scale desires. Then you might think that on a larger scale this is not really what you want- but try to deny the right of people to desire ordering food from home, or buying online, or going where they want as fast as it's possible, or being cured from pneumonia or cancer.