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  • A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
    None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.

    Never mind WASM. It’s a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
    So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.

    Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.

    Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.





  • I’m currently reconsidering using a couple mikrotik for some layer 3 hardware offloading.
    Not really homelab, but close.

    I have a project that gets integrated with another network for an event. I’m thinking of using 2x crs504 (cause I’m using mlag for servers, think vrrp or whatever for “public” (it’s all internal) ip) and seeing if I can get l3hw working as a router.
    While I could sit on a subnet of the “host” network, having a gateway that traffic goes through allows me to test and prove everything for my system in my homelab, with just the final integration being a do-in-a-time-crunch problem.
    I’m already using the crs504s for networking (I bought them ages ago, thinking 25gbps was going to be as easy as 10gbps. It’s all running at 10gbps), and this saves having to use something as a router, cuts down on rack space, all sorts of benefits. I think.
    Anyone have any experience with mikrotik l3hw offloading?

    My actual homeland is just a NAS and some networking. It’s a small flat, it’s just me. Not complicated, no need to give me more headaches!





  • I was working for an international company that was very modular.
    At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
    All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.

    The event update was in English.

    The mail system was down for about an hour.

    After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”







  • No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
    Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).

    This is a shitty product.
    This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
    This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

    But this isn’t mainstream media.

    Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

    This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

    Edit:
    I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
    But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thing


  • This isn’t mainstream media.
    This is capitalism.

    This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
    Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
    This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product


  • I don’t know that he has helped build anything. He has helped hype 2 companies.
    He did great PR when someone was managing him, but recently his PR is poison.
    SpaceX is managed by someone competent, musk has - quite frankly - little to do with the company.
    Tesla is riding the hype from before musk took off the mask. I give them 4 years, tops. If it’s not already on the way down.

    Intel needs to be run and managed by engineers. That’s what we want from core components. Not hype, not bubbles, not marketing speak, not fancy names and confusing part numbers. We want actual engineers who have thought through the implications of their decisions all the way to the end consumer. We want hardware that works and is predictable.