API changes*
Changing a beer to an IPA is actually a pretty good analogy, according to this beer lover who doesn’t like overly hoppy ones…
Nah, nah, it was the International Phonetic Alphabet. Can’t have something like that on the 'murican internet.
Dyslexic’s being attacked by that font
DRM is stupid because it interferes with paying customers and isn’t effective. If there’s a will there’s a way
I guess we have to get a subscription on top of our monthly internet bill to use the internet.
Not one-for-one, but the BBC actually wanted to put a tax on broadband bills in response to the resentment towards the TV License.
For the millionth time, Stallman was right.
Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can. I don’t need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.
We need to go back to html and css. Using an ad blocker and noscript literally breaks webpages. I just want to read the article! You know the content ppl actually come for
But how is all the bloat going to get to you then? HTML with some images is equally functional and loads in a fraction of the time, because it is actually efficient. Nobody could want that could they?
I can see legitimate uses for java script, like popping out a menu. But it seriously needs its capabilities restricted.
It’s such a bizarre situation. Either you heavily limit Javascript and basically destroy all web apps or you embrace it and get laughably slow websites with walls of ads that beg you to log in to actually view the page. Like if you look into it, it’s genuinely shocking how much software is a web browser running JS under the hood.
It just occured to me that I wonder how a text browser addresses all this
That doesn’t mean his strstegy and approach is good.
Who cares? Whether or not Stallman is a likeable person isn’t what’s important. His ideas are.
The way he presents them and approaches certain subjects is what’s offputting. He’s got this black and white atitude towards the world and how things work, when in reality, everything is just a shade of gray.
Why watch the news when you can learn everything from memes
I hadn’t heard of the YouTube thing. Doesn’t matter because I don’t use it, but it’s still outrageous.
I am willing to watch an ad or two every 15 minutes, so long as they are no more than a minute total of wasted time. This ultra-monetization crap where it’s a minute and a half every 5 minutes is why people use AdBlockers and pirate media.
Be reasonable as a business, and you’ll get a reasonable response. Flood my free time with ads, and you get AdBlock and piracy.
It’s called PeerTube, which is Fediverse/ActivityPub service for video.
The problem is that with video there’s a larger separation between users and content creators. Services like Mastodon and Lemmy can grow just from users switching to them because users themselves also post the content, but PeerTube isn’t going to grow until the people making videos start posting them there.
