• Press F12 to open the Debugger.
• Click the “Network” tab
• Press Ctrl+F5 to reaload the whole page (including previously cached files)
• under the list of transfered files in the greyish bar above the debug console (if enabled…) you see the total number of requests the site made and the total filesize that has been transfered; lower is better.

Picture: https://superuser.com/a/1718133

• I have a limited amount of bandwith on my mobile plan
• if i know a game download is large i go home where i have broadband; i dont download large files over mobile internet
• a text-only website can be rather small with only a few KB. It’s only when you get ““Designers”” that things start to bloat, because the system fonts are not good enough and 2MB in extra fonts no sane visitor will ever notice must be downloaded.
• the marketing department REALLY needs those 10 extra trackers and analytics scripts that take 5s to load, even if they last looked at the visitor stats back in 2021 and the login has long been forgotten.
• the CEO wanted that animated AI powered talking gorilla widget he had seen on a local tradeshow where the customers can ask product or website questions (spoiler: they dont!), which ads a few more Megabytes to each pageload even before you even use it.

It’s not the web developers making the decisions, but marketing and management. Otherwise websites would respect “do not track”, or have an “opt out of all cookies” button instead of an “accept all cookies” button.

To be valid, the email just has to match [anything@anything]. ,🙃@localhost can be perfect legal if localhost supports utf8 in usernames.

Serious question: what’s the deal with iHeartRadio? It seems like they are involved in podcasts and the local radio station, but I usually download my mp3 and don’t use apps, so not sure what’s going on there…?

Have you seen that ludicrous display last night?

Blasphemy! Windows XP is the only King!

Because at this time the internet was still slow, not always on and optional on most computers, and Microsoft did not know if and how they should integrate the internet into the OS. The only thing they had at the time was some link to MSN on the desktop, and activeX (???) Where you could display websites on your desktop or within your program, but without the Browser controlls.

The could make everything above 1080 quality subscription only, or charge uploaders for the storage. This would probably also cut down on the low quality spam Channels that only exists for ad revenue…

downvotes come at a “cost”, whereby if you want to downvote someone you have to reply directly to them with some justification, say minimum number of characters, words, etc.

I would choose a different solution. Instead of always up or down voting by 1 point, everyone gets a fixed points budget per day, that is then distributed between each post you vote on. So if you only up vote one post, this vote counts more than the vote from someone who votes on 100 posts per day.

This would solve the mass down voting of legit content on YouTube or Facebook, where quite often conspiracy dipshits in their telegram channels post videos or Channels that should be down voted, while their own right wing propaganda gets upvoted. So the most active accounts who spent all day on the social would be muted, while average User would have a more important voice.

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There is an enterprise windows version that comes without tracking, telemetry and auto installed crapware, but it costs more.

“Just switch to Linux!!!1!!” - yeah sure, and throw away the 3rd party software licenses I paid money for in the last 20 years, not to mention the games…

What kind of scams? Amway, Tupperware, herbalife?

Maybe the part with the drug trafficking, racketeering and gang violence inside their hobby club?

• It takes 20 years to build
• nobody knows how much nuclear fuel will cost in 20 years
• you have to take out a big loan and make interest payments on it for maybe 30 years before you start making a profit
• if you don’t have enough water for cooling because of climate change, the plant must shut down
• if your neighbor decides to start a war against you, your nuclear plants become a liability, see Ukraine.

I think smaller, decentralized renewable energy is cheaper in the short and long run and has a much lower risk in case of accidents, natural Desasters or attacks.

Still, someone has to finance it. In the worst case you have a high speed rail network with high operationg costs that nobody uses, but taxpayers still need to maintain.

Price per km of track goes up exponentialy the faster you want to go, which means they will either have expensive tickets or will be unprofitable.

Should rather give ownership to the employees instead 🙂

I don’t think a battery, soldering joints or displays would last that long…

Bold to assume that important software gets tested…