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Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
(obviously I still use firefox; the people leading the development of the alternative browser engines have the same brain worms even more so but ... oof)
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me
first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech
later it gets worse:
> Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?
> A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.
everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful
the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy
Mastodon FeedI just had an unbelievably amazing evening, I have the best girlfriend in the world ❤️❤️❤️
Now I am so full of food I’m going to pass out 🛌
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Meyerweb ("Eric Meyer :firedoge:") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Do not take advice about web development from people who cannot keep the HTML payload for a simple blog page (nevermind all the JS) under 1MB on the wire.
Do not take web development advice from people who cannot get TTFB under 3 seconds on a 4G connection.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So someone DM'd me the "new, faster" rewrite of a frontend influencer's blog, and, friends, we need better influencers; people who can actually run and read a trace. Folks who understand HTTP and HTML. People who aren't going to sell you a new silver bullet because they know that silver bullets don't exist.
In other words, engineers.
Be an engineer. Follow engineers. Engineer for users.
Mastodon FeedY’all need this 7-Eleven sweatshirt. https://7-elevenshop.com/products/7-eleven%C2%AE-classic-fleece-sweatshirt
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Wish I knew who was behind Treo; their visualisation of historical CWV data is easily the most accessible view:
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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Really want to see a supercut of this talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq69KKpq0b0
With my, um, rebuttal:
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Mastodon FeedWhat's your favorite movie with Awkwafina and Michelle Yeoh in which a young Chinese American woman from a working-class family discovers that the man she has been close to for years (and also works with) has been hiding the fact that he is the scion of an immensely powerful and secretive family, and they take a plane trip together to Asia where he has to confront his parent?
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Instead, we seem to have easily disprovable arguments that teams (or at least developers) are making decisions with near-perfect information and that the loss of users and revenue is *intentional*? But with no data to back that up, and none of the collateral we'd expect to see to inform those choices? E.g., conference talks or blogs about how to set up your choices to exclude only the "right" people.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Another attack could be to note that CWV for mobile currently excludes iOS devices because most of the Web Perf APIs that the dataset uses are missing from WebKit (lolsob), and that in many geographies, we might be under acceptable thresholds for ~75+% of users if things were reweighted to include iOS.
An interesting thesis! Why isn't it being deployed?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'll go first! CWV data *could* form the basis of at least a counter-argument about my assertions about which communities are leading to success more often:
https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/55bc8fad-44c2-4280-aa0b-5f3f0cd3d2be/page/M6ZPC
There are big methodological problems, of course, and we should be having a debate about how that will look when INP is included. But we aren't having that debate. Why not?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So folks are upset about my post from last week? Interesting that nobody is bringing data.
I'm limited in what I can share from consulting and remediation because teams don't want dirty laundry aired & I'm not in the habit of breaking trust w/ folks I'm called in to advise (this is not nice-to-have: performance is cultural, so a lot of what needs to get fixed requires trust to change engrained practices and beliefs).
So this should be the easiest smackdown ever? Where's the grounded counter.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Adam Rutherford ruins Valentine's Day.
The spider story isn't that bad, though.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/14/adam-rutherford-ruins-valentines-day/
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Mastodon FeedHarder Drives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
I've learned sooo many things from it that I didn't need to know.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I am quoted in this fun story about the history of how people send ❤️❤️ ❤️ to each other, in a section that explains (delightfully) that ASCII is "pronounced ass-key" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/hearts-emojis-gen-z.html?unlocked_article_code=bsvBw8cTtgaIG9lx_2Xhbk0sH6oAOFygUMMmC2pFmTjPvLqv9I28NG3lYKSSMix172LIZUVQ6iDYOFv5W3dQdoTgwfNbj7pwuC_1rqjPDngNlC-k9KC7NoBOu9px7XXlKB46GIpwHk-1sN1uNCmMZZKGew16ifL1IoO8ES22Q5ZB0uXm6VOmU3bSJnoCqS1ZQf64kvZpxpzrEicOzgMriz1lE49puWvT1Nz6UuzUvpRctFGeMwEe5Wq8yRZGysFOLiv4J_sMDntjDSSLJ6_pr25c5cheyh88076CjB9dLUkRK720u-os8tHc1f-T7_HkXB9ZRM07cvv-waYLeQ2OkA&smid=share-url (🎁 link)
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Oscar the housepanther in the sun
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Temple University sure has gone downhill since they dismissed me a few decades ago. Not that I'm arguing for a causal relationship…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/14/shame-on-temple-university/
