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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Anyway, you might look back on Frontend's Lost Decade and ask _"who were the influencers that seemed willing to go along with this?"_. Your regular Wes's and Addys and Maltes and Theos. They all had their reasons, and each undoubtedly expressed mild reservations at various points, but none of them told the truth reliably enough to counter the overwhelming marketing behind the lie. And that's why you should never trust them now.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The (narrowly defined) success of React spawned many imitators that rolled out the same playbook: active denial and suppression of critical engineering discussion, heavy marketing, and bloated, slow products in their wake (looking at you, Apollo). That this axis of untruth has condensed into Next.js and marketing by Vercel about speed should teach us a lot of lessons; one that I take now is that lies spread without active opposition, and that I was too quiet. I knew better; and yet.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it one time.

why is the cloud good

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

React was frontend's introduction to Big Lies. The React team themselves were talking a book they didn't fully understand (else Pete Hunt would never have been able to get on stage and say "it works like game engine!" with a straight face), and were serially unwilling to tell the full story as they knew it.

So the implausible proposition that a system that *obviously* doubled up work and didn't defend against layout thrashing would somehow be "faster" was projected and uncritically accepted.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It was accelerated by people who sold all of this on the back of "better UX". And that's still the right yardstick: does this technology, in general, lead to better user experiences?

Obviously not. The less React (and Angular, etc.) there is in your stack, the better the UX is for *most* types of products, *most* of the time. Not a hard and fast rule, but a useful proposition to work through to understand a specific case.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

WHY was it so uncritically accepted? JSX + weekend projects.

The promise of not having to think about how data and UI interact over time, wrapped in nice-looking forks of HTML and JS syntax, meant that the 1-10 hour project got "simpler" (assuming you ignore the hundreds of MB of NPM crap lugged in tow). Nevermind that serious teams were reliably finding themselves neck-deep in perf remediation quicksand almost as soon React got popular.

So the lie curdled: you weren't holding it right.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mapache@hachyderm.io ("Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻") wrote:

And I know I am talking from my privilege rn, so do it if you can. We still need to protect labor rights, increase wages and modify govmt taxation.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
PagedOut@infosec.exchange wrote:

Paged Out! #6 has arrived! And it's jam-packed with content!
You can download it here:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

jwz wrote:

Great moments in autocomplete.

Last night I tried to type the word "obituary" and my phone completed it to "ovipositor", and somehow I feel seen.

And yet, because of Apple's cowardly prudishness, somehow when I type motherdkxije it is of not hello at all
https://jwz.org/b/ykld

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Kids, brush your teeth, because if you don't, well

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/fluoride-tooth-decay-partner-kff-health-news/index.html

jwz wrote:

Upgrades.

We have now reached the point where iOS 15 on my 9 year old phone has been "upgraded" sufficiently that when I am typing at speed, characters show up on screen nearly half a second later.

We went to the moon. We used to be a society.
https://jwz.org/b/yklb

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noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:

The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.

This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.

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tef wrote:

historians are going to note a marked increase in a overly defensive writing tone around the early 2010s huh

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jimfenton@infosec.exchange ("Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦") wrote:

Props to whoever on this plane is advertising the WiFi network “Houthi PC small group”

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: Man who wants nothing more than to be liked set to lose hundreds of billions of dollars as a direct result of being despised.

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jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens") wrote:

The Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are holding hearings about what's going on at VA. I was invited to testify at one of the hearings (will post more about this later) and was told, "If your friends and family want to watch live, this will be streaming on the SVAC Democrats Facebook and X/Twitter feeds."
That the Dems are streaming only on Facebook and Twitter is another illustration that they're not up to the moment we're in.
#politics #USPol
I sent them this:

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@timbray this thread is the best rundown I know of:

https://transmom.love/@elilla/114178587075613485

tl;dr looks like a Joe job for targeted harassment of the real Nicole

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
harold ("Harold Jarche") wrote:

Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.

“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.

“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy."

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

#democracy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Reports are now showing consumer confidence has plummeted to its lowest level in 12 years, the markets are currently tanking, analysts have downgraded predictions for stocks, core inflation is rising, GDP projections have been sliced in half or are now negative, unemployment is expected to increase, and some major corporations are projecting sales decreases."

~ David Badash

#Trump #inflation #recession #economy #tariffs #TaxCuts #StockMarket #Dow
/1

https://www.alternet.org/the-rich-are-worried/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alysondecker@mstdn.social ("Alyson Decker") wrote:

The threat to shut down Federal District and Appellate Courts is humongous because it is something Congress can actually do and it would leave the administration largely unchecked, turn much of our court system on its head, and make due process for individuals in the federal criminal system basically a joke. But I guess it’s hard to understand and less exciting than Greenland so everyone is ignoring it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wm@mast.wmclark.com ("William") wrote:

Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report.

#TeslaTakedown #TechnoFascism

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick 🇺🇦") wrote:

If the Democratic candidate for vice president can't make this happen, are there any other Democrats who can? Because he's right. https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/114242311093927912

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
helma ("Helma") wrote:

Peekaboooo #Caturday

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

#History #Music

Do you know the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Like sour milk.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

📰 The Omg Lol Times: Countering cruelty with kindness: https://omglol.news/2025/03/29/countering-cruelty-with-kindness

TL;DR: Someone used a derogatory slur on social.lol, and it *really* bothered me, so now we’re running a sale and I’m donating a quarter of everything omg.lol earns over the next week to Best Buddies International. :prami_contented:

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@HopelessDemigod what modes do you like to use? do you ever play around with JS8? when the bands suck, I've often been amazed how far iot allows me to be "heard".

oh, and I am wa2rrb

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matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

Xiaofeng’s profile is no longer available on IU sites. So here’s his Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pONu-5EAAAAJ&hl=en