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Post by Krutonium »

pipe01 wrote: post #263
drcongo wrote: post #73

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Music producers often have some shitty speakers known as grot boxes that they use to make sure their mix will sound as good as it can on consumer audio, not just on their extremely expensive studio monitors. Chromebooks are perfectly analogous. As a side note, today I learned that Grotbox is now an actual brand: https://grotbox.com

Doesn't having a brand for that kinda go against the definition?

Based on the website they're banking on people thinking they were always a brand, and thus a lot of artists use their speakers?

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Post by deepsun »

FabHK wrote: post #172
6510 wrote: post #168

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I wonder if that works beneficial on old computers that freeze up when you try load the GB js ad-auction circus news circus website. I want to browse loaded pages while the new tabs load. If the client just hangs for 2 min it gets boring fast.

Datapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed, I just wanted to read or look up a few kB of text. So painful.

If only there was browser-as-a-service. That would load the pages over it's fast connection and show them to you.

Re: The 49MB web page

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Post by ponector »

jakub_g wrote: post #237

> 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data Just FYI how this generally works: it's not developers who add it, but non-technical people. Developers only add a single ` ` in the page, which loads Google Tag Manager, or similar monstrosity, at the request of someone high up in the company. Initially it loads ~nothing, so it's fine. Over time, non-technical people slap as many advertising "partner" scripts they can…

Developers do that as well. Especially now with llm-assisted coding. Accept half-baked solution and go to the next ticket.

I've had recently a case at work, while filling a contact form to add a new party there were 300+ calls to the validation service to validate email and phones. Three calls per every character entered to every text input!

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Post by idop »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #99
cjs_ac wrote: post #47

My family's first broadband internet connection, circa 2005, came with a monthly data quota of 400 MB. The fundamental problem of journalism is that the economics no longer works out. Historically, the price of a copy of a newspaper barely covered the cost of printing; the rest of the cost was covered by advertising. And there was an awful lot of advertising: everything was advertised in newspapers. Facebook Marketpl…

I remember getting punishment from parents for downloading 120MB World of Tanks update over metered home internet. Our monthly quota was 250MB. It was not that long ago, 2010.

In the late '90s, a friend recommended I download some freeware from a website. It was 1.2MB. I told him "are you crazy? 1.2MB? It's gonna take a whole week!"

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Post by fwip »

deepsun wrote: post #332
FabHK wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Datapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed, I just wanted to read or look up a few kB of text. So painful.

If only there was browser-as-a-service. That would load the pages over it's fast connection and show them to you.

I feel like there already was one, on HN a few years ago. If I remember right, they were hoping to charge $20/month.

Edit: Ah, this was it: https://mightyapp.webflow.io/

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Post by slashtab »

firefoxd wrote: post #316
quectophoton wrote: post #241

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Out of curiosity, do you have (and want to share) stats about requests per second? It's always nice to know these things for future reference. No worries if not :)

Not the author, but last year I wrote about my experience being on #1 on HN [0]. I created a visualization of the requests hitting my server. [0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/surviving-the-hug-of-death

In Brave browser on Android device, the visualisation media(?) is blacked out. just wanted to give you a heads up.

Re: The 49MB web page

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Post by firefoxd »

slashtab wrote: post #338
firefoxd wrote: post #316

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Not the author, but last year I wrote about my experience being on #1 on HN [0]. I created a visualization of the requests hitting my server. [0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/surviving-the-hug-of-death

In Brave browser on Android device, the visualisation media(?) is blacked out. just wanted to give you a heads up.

Thanks for letting me know. It seems like when Brave is set to aggressively block tracking, it also blocks the canvas since it could be used for fingerprinting a device.

I'll see if an avg version is viable in the future.

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