Just the thumbnail and I know exactly that this is about Epstein.

It’s so aggressive. When I was young I could watch the players on the court. Now they have the tracking technology (which… as someone into 3d graphics programming I have to admit, that kind of technology is cool) to project ads into the space dynamically. So the court just has more and more virtual real estate sold off for viewers at home. I’m sure it’s all perfectly focus and user tested to ensure the exact right balance between unwatchable garbage and, “Ok, I can notice it and maybe I don’t like it but I can barely ignore it.”

I can appreciate NFL athletes wanting to just stand around and catch their breath, because of the intensity of the sport.

I used to use it to redirect from twitter to my self-hosted Nitter (RIP 😭) instance, but now that that’s all over I do not.

I don’t use any forks, I just bend Firefox to my will with a couple extensions and a short tour through about:config

This is an interesting tidbit.

However, the fact that Roku even explored this points to a major underlying issue: These days, TV makers hardly make any money with their physical products. Roku’s FY 2023 earnings report shows that the company lost $44 million on the sale of smart TVs, streaming players and other devices in 2023. What brings in the bacon are ads and services; Roku generated a gross profit of nearly $1.6 billion with this business segment.

The only purpose of the TV is to show you ads indefinitely. Even when the sale, which is a loss leader, is recouped by ads you’d think, “Hmm. Maybe that’s enough of that.” But no, for these companies and their insatiable greed it will never be enough.

I think for many people that is true, but for someone like Ian Cheong I do not give him the benefit of the doubt.

If you’re not using Firefox (mascot: red fox), then you really should. Stop using the ad browser made by the ad company Google.

No. The calculator on iphones doesn’t have ads.

Assuming they ever learned it in the first place, of course.

No

This child has an Aang color palette

i wonder if these people ever ponder the reasons why an election between biden and trump would even be close. why are democrats so disliked every election that there has to be a GOTV campaign every four years?

In school I learned that the civil war was fought over states’ rights

I hope SMIC can produce good RISC-V chips and that I can abandon this bullshit amd64 architecture once and for all.

Unfortunately even the default Lemmy UI is pretty heavy. A clean load of this page and the comments transferred 1.92MB on the wire (6.61 decompressed). I blame Inferno. Not because Inferno is specifically bad, but because I have been convinced that anything that is React or React-like is bad.

On Diethex it’s 204kB and 217kB respectively, and that’s because the OP’s image is 108kB.

A comparable Reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bja5qu/robert_de_niro_80_and_his_10months_old_daughter/ initially loads about as much as Hexbear, even including all the ad scripts, but transfers megabytes more as you load and scroll comments.

Where they super begin to differ is that one Reddit tab is currently sitting at 400MB+ RAM usage, compared to Hexbear’s 140, compared to Diethex’s 20**.

** I think one thing that is hard to track about page memory usage is the web browser will over-allocate to speed up page navigation and then eventually reclaim when you have mostly settled where you are. So after a few minutes it’s now:
DietHex: 20MB
Hexbear: 60MB
Reddit: 160-260MB

When Trump got COVID I was having the most fun I’d had since the pandemic began. Too bad he didn’t go out like Stan Chera.

I really like what you’ve done but I hope you consider changing max-inline-size from 60ch to 70 or 80ch. It would improve the desktop readability in my opinion while still not having the lines wrap too often.

So I did a few comparisons. On ungoogled-chromium on my 2012 Macbook Air I disabled the loading of image assets. Just accessing the home pages with caches disabled took:

photon: 403kB transferred (1.2MB)
default: 2.0MB transferred (8.5MB)

Then I tried it from Firefox Focus on my iPhone SE (comparable to iPhone 6S) and both pages seemed to perform about the same as I scrolled around. I even set Photon to compact mode so it looked a bit more like the default Lemmy UI. My only other remark is it seemed to have an issue on Photon’s compact mode where the page displayed was longer than the actual content, so a lot of white space trailed at the bottom.

I only learned of Photon from your comment and I have to say it’s pretty impressive as a front end with only 9 months of dev time on it. I’m partial to it because I’m also right now working on a project in Svelte designed with the same idea: to do a better version of something which already exists.

P.S. Just saw this amazingly coincidental post about how web pages are mega bloated these days. https://lemmy.ml/post/13314292

apparently it’s called “Reading Recovery” but i haven’t found a succinct summary of what it actually is