When you say hosting do you mean yourself or a company?

If a company, I do this with Dreamhost. Email hosting comes with web hosting. I might as well.

It’s been a while since I last looked but I haven’t read anything about whether they read my mail or not. They definitely could though.

Also their email spam filters are not very good.

Many Germans did not want to be reminded of individuals who did not measure up to their concept of a “master race” and were considered “unfit” or “handicapped.” People with physical and mental disabilities were viewed as “useless” to society, a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, “unworthy of life.” At the beginning of World War II, individuals with mental or physical disabilities were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the “T-4,” or “euthanasia,” program.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Murder of People with Disabilities

Imagine the US government restricting the First Amendment and every branch of government just lets it happen.

Can I take a a guess? If not, please ignore the next sentence.

Finance companies with a “database” is a gigantic flat file?

This is exactly right.

I was guilty of copy and pasting from Stack Exchange to meet deadlines.

The only thing I would add is complaining that colleges don’t really teach coding for the real world and all boot camps are a waste of time and money unless that’s the most effective way you can learn.

The Palma was one of my top choices but I was thinking it might be a little small for me. It is one of the better looking devices.

I didn’t even think getting a used Kindle. New Kindle prices seem a little high for getting a locked system, so a used one is probably the most cost effective method.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Oh… I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me know.

Hi. Thank you for the info.

I am looking for a new e-reader. Is there any reason why I should buy a Kindle and jailbreak it rather than get a PineNote, SuperNote, Nook device, Boox device, or a Kobo Libra?

Or would you recommend something else?

It is. That’s actually really cool.

But if they do start including ads, why would advertisers use a less effective and accurate platform than Google Maps?

Either they change or their ad placements are cheaper.

If they aren’t maximizing profits then why put ads at all? It’s not like they are losing profits.

Looks like we are both skeptical about those technologies. “All you have to do is turn off locations… on a maps app… that’s privacy!”

Apple claimed Apple Maps was created because Apple wanted to protect its users from Google Maps’ data hoarding. We assume Apple is already hoarding data but now to be able to compete with other advertisement platforms Apple, would have to share that data with advertisers.

One step forward, two steps back.

Typography geek here.

If you enjoy watching about type in NYC, I recommend the documentary Helvetica (2007). Even though it has its biases (I mean which documentary doesn’t), I enjoyed it.

OP looks like a blogger on Substack.

I got this by going to his page.

Ethical Hacking Resources

What YouTube killed are YouTube instances by limiting the number of request per IP address.

So websites are all made with these frameworks for three reasons. The first one is, it’s suppose to save an server cost. If a server can send parts of code and data at a time, it should be faster. Unfortunately bad web architects do not benchmarks these things. More server calls means more headers for the same amount of data. Web developers, for several reasons sometimes out of their control, do not handle errors properly like in the Chinese e-commerce site you mentioned. So yes, you are correct, it does suck and some pages would be better off as a flat page.

The second reason is culture. AJAX first started in the 90s when users were still on 56k modems. We needed pages to load faster or else the user thought it was dead or just too annoying to stay. So this became the culture. We are no longer mimicking paper, we are creating web apps, or programs. This stays with the culture now. I’ve seen single page websites do it where I actually think it’s detrimental.

The third reason user experience. This is in two parts which can be consider the same. The first is it’s not a familiar site, users want the app experience on a website or else they leave. The second which is the nearly same is if the page does not refresh, you keep the attention of the user for a lot longer. It’s like reading a really good book but there are no page turns or chapters. In social media, this is support important. eCommerce, adding items without a refresh is really important or else they might change their mind.

As for profits for users of a website, the algorithm should be something like this:

if( profitsFromOldDevices > (developmentTime+resources) ) 
    startDevelopment();

Most of the time, this is false. Designers and developers and project managers take up a lot of money. People on really old devices are less likely to buy things. eCommerce sites know this, and advertisers know this.

When I say older devices, I meant over 2 decades old. The latest Firefox can still be installed in Android 5, which came out over a decade ago.

As for e-waste, I am not an expert on that but seeing how much electricity a Pentium 3 desktop can take, a $200 dollar smart phone can save the person money very quickly.

As for Apple, they are greenwashers but they probably have the best recycling program out of all the top hardware manufacturers. I’m sure companies like the Fairphone are leagues better though.

As for YouTube, I’m going to guess it’s going run decently if you have a fairly recent browser. If you have Javascript turned off, Google can’t get much info off the user. So this is their way of forcing updating.

You don’t need to apologize about ranting. Have you seen how long my post? This is your post. Do as you wish. Have fun.

The security holes are feature. They can blame them on AI and still allow friends of Trumps to take all the info they need without Trump having to deliver it himself.

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Oh the author is here. Thank you for the article.

Here are some of my thoughts of some of your points as professional web developer for startups to some of the biggest companies in the world.

Your first point of developers getting dependent on a framework or library doesn’t really matter. Look at the average developer’s resume with 6 years of experience. They have a lot of things listed because this is what the culture is. We have to learn or miss the opportunity working for a company that uses React rather than Angular.

Besides a professional setting, learning the new hip thing and talking about why it sucks, is programming culture and human nature.

I think this topic can be its own article especially since any contribution to open source even if it from corpos, is not bad to me but moving on.

what I am going to write next is what good web architects do. I am not saying they all do this.

Web architects look at stats of their current users or target users. They have to find a balance of server performance and user experience. Some even have a list of old devices just to test out the results to make a decision on what devices should be excluded.

You showed a video of old tech using the internet now. Some of those devices are less powerful than Raspberry Pis now. Those devices aren’t even meant to handle a flat high res image. Also this is rare. Should a company spend thousand of dollars for every unique User Agent they get? No, especially since those are easily spoofed.

You are right about some sites slowing down because of JS but a lot of those, like on your own website which uses a lot of Google code, use code to stream a video in tiny bits. It makes the experience of the user a lot better. It takes a lot of logic to predict how many chunks video a user will use at a given time. I definitely wouldn’t wait for a 50 mb video to stutter and load on website.

Other examples like infinite scrolling aka doom scrolling. Social media use lazy loading for images an videos. Try shoving hundreds videos and high res images with sound on a page. It would be horrendous for the user. People would log off. Say what you want about doom scrolling, but it does its job keeping users on the page.

If you want to blame Javascript, you should also blame browsers since they run the code. Firefox is at version 135. Version 1 was less than 9 mb. Version 25 is at 45 mb. Version 50 is at 82 mb. Version 100 is at 121 mb. Version 135 is at 151 mb. You want to look at slow downs, make sure you have enough RAM is run the apps you are using.

I enjoy this topic and would enjoy what you think about what I wrote. Again, than you for posting.

This is a huge deal.

More people should be fighting this.

Giving this much power to corporations isn’t right.

If all else, copyright owners of any media should have the same power so they can effective end AI from stealing their content.

They are trying to see what they can get away with.