WofFS @woffs@mastodon.sdf.org

Pandemiegerecht Kochen: Füge jedem Gericht genug Knoblauch hinzu, damit Fremde freiwillig 1,5 Meter Abstand halten. 🤓

Today I said something that I never thought I'd hear.

I think the web needs to die. I wish I had listened to a friend who, 15 years ago, was ranting about the trend to re-invent the internet on port 80.

We have taken a resilient network with a diverse ecosystem of applications and shoved every damn thing into a web application. The deluge of standards and bolt ons makes the web look like the stacks from Ready Player One - unmaintainable and fragile. We have created a single (and highly corporate/commercialized) single point of failure.

Accessing the internet:80 (or 443) is so fraught that you have to be a big player to make a browser that works correctly, but doing so allows you to gatekeep the whole thing. As a bonus you could mine behavior from that client to feed into your search and advertising machine.

And now we can't do shit without it. We're guzzling the kool-aid such that we write write apps in (originally) hacked-in web programming languages using toolkits that basically turn an entire web browser into a shared library.

I wish I had good alternates or suggestions for a functional replacement, but I have to say it: The web is a dangerous joke.

@tomasino According to https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19994654/how-much-farting-is-normal/ the average person has 0.5 to 1.5 liters a day. So, to make it easy call it 1 L/day.

This site https://www.simplyinsurance.com/average-us-life-expectancy-statistics/#section-1 says we live an average of 78.5 years or 28,672.125 days. So 28 kL of gas in a lifespan.

A weather balloon is 100 L so you would fill 287 weather balloons in your life. A hot air balloon is 4 kL, so the same would be 7 hot air balloons.

Showerthoughts:

is an antivirus a piece of malware that has monopoly on being malware on a particular machine?

the future is low tech

Der Zustand öffentlicher Toiletten ist warum Außerirdische keinen Kontakt zu uns aufnehmen wollen.

@lilo Ganz einfach:

1) Website fragt Standard-Keks beim Browser ab. Nicht da = keine Kekse.

2) oben-rechts oder oben-links gibt es einen Link/Button/floating-Widget mit einem Keks drauf. Wird der angeklickt, kommt ein Keks-Dialog mit Details, über den Kekse aktiviert werden – ggf. mit Auswahl.

3) auf gleichem Weg (2) lassen sich Keks-Einstellungen ggf. auch nachträglich anpassen – falls nicht, kann der Besucher einfach alle Kekse löschen, und startet wieder bei 1.

Fertig. Technisch (oops) kein Problem.

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.

Every time I use Haskell a lot, I start expecting real life conversations to be well-typed.