Ancestors

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 05:05

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025

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Written by Steve on 2024-09-30 at 19:00

I might be wrong but this sounds like a quick way to make the web worse by putting a huge computational load on your machine for the purpose of privacy inside customer service chat bots that nobody wants. Please correct me if I’m wrong

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Written by self@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 19:03

I do believe that’s the chrome-only horseshit that Proton uses for their local LLM, and reputedly it’s very slow and fairly unreliable

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Written by Steve on 2024-09-30 at 19:07

chrome only

The whole concept of responsive really died in the arse with the onset of the full stack web developer.

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Written by self@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 19:32

the web platform is great!

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Written by Steve on 2024-09-30 at 19:54

Did you ever see that A16z funded startup that was making a web browser that streamed the web for an intermediary server? It was fucken wild insanity

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Written by self@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 20:20

Mighty comes in at $30 with a 9% discount with a 12 month prepayment. I don’t think Mighty is for everyone. […] However, for people who use resource intensive applications regularly and either prefer or don’t mind using web apps it seems like a no-brainer. I think there is also a legitimate argument for corporations to provide Mighty for their employees purely based on the productivity boost, especially for tech employees.

It might be hard to get purists to buy into the “browser = OS” value proposition, but in the meantime I’ll be enjoying my 40 GB of RAM.

oh it’s the web operating system again! things that make a web browser an operating system:

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Toot

Written by Steve on 2024-09-30 at 20:23

One other thing, also correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it a giant key logger as well?

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Descendants

Written by self@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 20:35

…huh, that is true! so another bullet point and this one’s shared by more than one “web operating system”:

in this case it’s pretty bad, cause it’s got the same issue as all hosted VMs in that if the host or hypervisor is compromised so are all the VMs, but also effectively anyone on Mighty’s side with access to the event stream would have enough data to compromise your entire existence

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