PHP and bloated javascript frameworks can just go FORTH and multiply off.
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but a polysourced one : )
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Start forking over real money to BB in the hopes that they will cut back on the ads and seemingly paid for product reviews?
Cause that always works outâŚ
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I do actually.
I use it the same way, though Iâll click through to interesting articles, it serves as my most convenient aggregator. Donât get me wrong, Twitter is extremely useful. But the vast majority of Twitter is still people Tweeting what they had for lunch or who theyâre hitting on in some bar or just bantering semi-publicly with Twitter friends (one step less real friendship than Facebook friends). I even recall an article years ago about a Twitter account that was driven by the sensors in a hydroponics experiment and literally Tweeted status updates on the plants. None of which is inherently wrong, but it isnât substantive and therefore is, IMHO, bloat. The scant fraction of substance still adds up to a couple orders of magnitude more than the number of accounts I follow, but itâs a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of Twitter.
In a way, thatâs what I regard as the primary limiter of social mediaâs organizing utility; unless youâre looking for some one or org youâre familiar with from elsewhere (for example I follow BoingBoingâs Twitter feed, as well as several of the BB contributors), the odds of successfully sifting through the bloat to find the substance are daunting.
Well, yeah, otherwise, youâre reading 140 characters only. That would make for shorter articlesâŚ
While there is plenty of that, my twitter stream is either commentary with a link to whatever theyâre commenting on or brief quips (which I guess counts as banter). I follow around 500 people.
I find twitter is better at getting news to me than loading news sites semi-randomly every day ever was since my twitter client (I donât read their website) is always running in a sidebar and I spend my days working on the Internet for my job.
I already read Al-Jazeera when it surfaces to me and, as an American, I make a point of reading the BBC and some of the other European sources. I just donât go to their sites. If something hits critical mass on news services, it generally shows up 15 or 20 times on twitter within 12 hours. I mean, I found out about the Paris attacks, for example, within the hour.
I might be wrong, but I think a lot of people just read the 140 characters and hardly ever click through. I get that theyâre busy and in a hurry, but I do wonder if that sort of superficial news might be worse than no news at all.
Did you discover them on Twitter, or did you hear about them through other channels and find them on Twitter? I follow about 300, that being the most I can realistically pay peripheral attention to on my client while Iâm working at my desk.
All over. Some are people who were getting retweeted often were friends. A lot are RPG authors (I play tabletop RPG games) or science fiction authors that I went looking for. A huge percentage are computer security people because it is my field. If I go to a website a lot and they donât have an RSS feed (because I still use an RSS feed reader for blogs and sites) but they have a twitter account, Iâll add it. I make a concerted effort during lunch or at the end of the day to catch up but I canât always because there isnât enough time in the day.
Iâm not entirely happy with it because it is drinking from the firehose but I hate Facebook and only have an account there because of family. My other options are a few particular news sites but I trust very few enough to primarily read just them for real news. This is a problem still waiting to be solved.
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Ymacs - which is Emacs for the browser.
Actually, Iâm surprised somebody hasnât compiled it to JavaScript using that⌠thingy. Emscripten.
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Here I go positing some absolutely unnecessary, and someone already did it.
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Eh, Wordpress is pretty darn useful. It actually does abstract most of the processing server-side, serving HTML/CSS with a dollop of one, and only one, Javascript library (JQuery). Compared to a lot of other sites with many ads / whatever, itâs pretty darn light.
(Of course, if you put gigantic moving article banner images, you have only yourself to blame.)
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I started using an adblocker (ublock origin) and umatrix.
Itâs taken a little getting used to and configuration, but itâs a very nice way to conditionally unblock things.
Iâve turned it on but I havenât paid much attention to it, frankly.
On my main computer, I run uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere. I also have Flash on click to play by default and donât have any other binary plugins.
Wordpress, an unauthenticated PHP shell with a blog as a side effect, as the joke at work goes.
âSecure PHPâ <-- does not exist
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Hell, it took Safari ten years to get around to making a popup blocker.
What? Just plain wrong. Pop-up blocking was in Safari 1. Christ.
Thatâs not what I recall. I canât easily find evidence either way after searching a bit. I know it shipped in Firefox well before Safari bothered.
In any case, Safari is always an âalso ranâ when it comes to UX, features, and security. Hell, Apple refuses to disclose the details of security fixes when they update Safari. When I see people running Safari, I feel like when I watched a cousin browsing the web with IE6 on XP in 2010. âCanât you do better?â
Edit: Looks like youâre right and I did not remember correctly. My overall meta point still stands though. People that care about security generally donât run Safari. It just doesnât seem to be much of a priority there and Apple utterly lacks any transparency around their security work.
I just went and looked at how big my word press pages are. They were HUGE! And thatâs when I noticed that my theme had stuck facebook like buttons and pintrist and other cruft at the bottom of every pages. So I disabled it and now theyâre a lot smaller, but bigger than Iâd like.
This is the single biggest thing on ever page. I was hoping I could find a way to not load it, but your comment suggests that itâs needed.
Is there another CMS that is as easy to setup and does podcasting + blog + static portfolio pages? Iâd be willing to change to something more secure that put out smaller, faster pages, but it has to be as easy to install, maintain and keep currentâŚ
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I just use github pages and Jekyll. It is free and you can use your own domain with github. It is what openbuddha.com and makehacklearn.org use.
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