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  • A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
    None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.

    Never mind WASM. It’s a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
    So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.

    Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.

    Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.








  • It’s been 4 days.
    How did people get these email addresses?
    I mean, the domain is known.
    But was the system that president musk broke really holding back this torrent of abuse and garbage?
    Feels like actual email addresses were leaked.
    Unless it was a mailing list that was suddenly exposed.

    Still seems strange that an email that simply says “yo” suddenly came through as part of the spam.
    Feels like email addresses were posted somewhere, and someone jumped on for the lulz. Along with the wall of trolls and abusers jumping on.

    I mean, as soon as I link a domain to an IP, I see all sorts of “security” scans turn up. Till then, firewall is pretty quiet.
    And if I wildcard direct a domain to an ip, the root gets scanned but any sub domains don’t.
    I feel email addresses would follow a similar pattern.


  • The API and pricing bullshit would have had 0 impact to people that (somehow manage to) us the Reddit app.
    It affected power users, mods and technically proficient people.

    If communities have agreed to take a stance against musk/twitter/Nazis and Reddit overruled that, then I imagine an exodus of people that the API debacle didn’t affect.

    But I don’t imagine it will be huge. Luckily, it will likely be decent people. So Reddit will slip more into a cesspool. And maybe more people will leave



  • Restricting access to sensitive information makes sense.
    But screeching an organisation (especially one with as much momentum as a government) to a halt to accomplish this is fucking stupid.
    This shit needs months, more like years, of planning and specifications to implement without grinding governments to a halt. I guess the only people (I mean, other than the employees) affected by this are the people that can’t afford to have employees that solve problems for them.
    So, on brand of “crushing the poor & working class”


    Edit.
    Reassessing, it sounds like the people that oversee the system have been locked out by elons clowns.
    Only reason to do that is to exfiltrate data, I guess



  • I was working for an international company that was very modular.
    At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
    All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.

    The event update was in English.

    The mail system was down for about an hour.

    After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”