https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Computer latency: 1977-2017
Funny this came up, I have seen this posted on hn before!
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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Tell me more about this toaster. How well does it make bread go brown?
You had to ask and apparently I have nothing to better to do on a Saturday night. It's a Russell Hobbs Model 5569, it says it has a "microchip" inside. If I was to hazard a guess it's at least 25 years old (the post is 18 so sounds reasonable). It actually fits a piece of toast, even thick pieces or crumpets which a lot of modern toasters don't. It does require the toast flipping since it does one side more than the…
Toasters that cannot fit crumpets should be a violation of some aspect of the UN Charter on Human Rights.
I used to also have that toaster with the "microchip." It sounded impressive at the time. Now I want to tear one open and see what sort of "microchip" it uses. A 555?
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#303I was about to comment how bad Web 1.0 design works on mobile and then I remembered that Safari was originally designed with affordances to deal with the pre-responsive web.
The link took me to this site
http://www.niagarafrontier.com/
I just started double tapping on elements and it made just the sections I was trying to read full screen and it was immediately readable.
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#304It's really annoying that the bitnami image (and chart) doesn't do this.
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#305This is reminiscent of StumbleUpon, which I used to spend hours on finding interesting sites in the aughts. Reddit later filled that void, but it was always a good time stumbling upon some obscure gem of a site. Now it's some app abomination, but I still think there's a place for such a service.
Thanks. I loved that site. Modern-day generative art tools like MJ inspire the same sense of exploration, anticipation & inspiration.
On-topic: I'm starting to see a trend. Digg was big before Reddit. VC-imposed 2010 "upgrades" ruined Digg's simple interface and 60% fled to Reddit (as did I). StumbleUpon had it's own redesign disaster in 2011. Both replace a simple, fast, efficient interface, ideal for content consumption, with "design" and room for advertising.
Reddit made the same mistake in 2018, but was smart enough to retain old.reddit.com Third party reddit apps saved it from a swift demise, but the API charges and associated forced closure of "competitors" must have had a detrimental effect on their traffic as well.
What's next?
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#306I hit a handful of interesting sites. This one was interesting https://rosemaryjacobs.com/ Slightly crazier: the problem is making rounds again on TikTok https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/150x6g8/collo...
Uh oh. I watched the TikTok video first, and thought "haha, that's stupid, pretty funny", but then clicked on the rosemary link. The woman, from prescribed medicine containing silver, considers her life permanently ruined/diminished such that she wrote a book warning others.
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What do you mean by MSM? To me that is “mainstream media”. I don’t understand how that is applicable here.
Mainstream social (or entertainment) media, by which I mean all the content consumption apps your typical non-tech parents or acquaintances in that age group know about (in my case Instagram, Facebook and ragebait meme groups but luckily not yet TikTok; the wider web outside news sites is pretty much unknown). Reddit or Mastodon for instance I would not call mainstream from my standpoint, but I left the former site m…
MSM usually means "Main Stream Media". So like broadcast and cable news and conventional newspapers. Overloading it to refer to social media is really confusing because social media is pretty much the opposite thing.
"Entertainment news" is a sub-genre of MSM, typically you see this on the cable news channels or the "opinion" section of a newspaper.
If you get your news from Facebook you aren't getting it from "the MSM" as that term is generally understood. I guess you could coin MSSM for "Main Stream Social Media" to differentiate Twitter from Mastodon (or Reddit from HN?) but honestly I think you can just type out "social media" and not die of fatigue.
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#308I've never encountered a site with so much construction underway, may become something big one day: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
Thank you for that amazing trip back in time
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Yes you used to be able maybe in mid/late-aughties. This is not something recent.
how about a search engine that ranks higher the less ads there are
I get this metric but at what point is the cutoff? If a small home run website has good info and gets popular, and has to add more advertisements, do they then get deranked on the search engine that led people there?
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What I've found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives. And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.
Vast swaths of the population are uninteresting rubes. Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter are all doing us a favor by keeping those people occupied and their drivel contained.
That’s incredibly reductive and shows you maybe don’t spend time in these spaces based on your perceptions? Many of my friends are talented makers who use social media to communicate about what they do with friends and fans. I’ve learned a lot about knitting and crochet through finding people with those skills on social media. I’ve made strong personal connections with strangers far far from me. I’ve found groups to share and debate and discuss topics important to me.
And acting like “quarantining” people to keep them out of your other online spaces is a good thing? Gross. More access and spread of information helps everyone become more interesting, it spurs innovation, it fosters creativity.
I came to HN after the Reddit API stuff killed Apollo, and though I’ve been here before from search engines, I’m now really getting into the community. It’s been great to see different things and feel inspired to look at how I do thinks in my profession. I wish I had really spent more time here sooner, but fortunately for you I was relegated to my drivel on Reddit until now.