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I honestly think the answer is tax money. It should be clear by now, that a browser is (critical) infrastructure and it should be funded as such. Ideally by multiple, non-aligned states.


"Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more."

https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/#:~:text=throw%2...


You could try different compression methods supported by browsers like brotli.

Otherwise you can also chain compression methods like: "Content-Encoding: gzip gzip".


Modern browsers support brotli or zstd, which is a lot better in terms of compression. Perhaps not as good for on-the-fly compression, but static assets can get a nice compression benefit out of it.

With toxic AI scrapers like Perplexity moving more and more to headless web browsers to bypass bot blocks, I think a brotli bomb (100GB of \0 can be compressed to about 78KiB with Brotli) would be quite effective.


Ah cool that site's robots.txt is still broken, just like it was when it first came up on HN...


How do they even know that?


These are quite a few reports for one day for a technology we purportedly have under full control, nothing to worry.


Which do you consider as being under better control: a technology that we exhaustively create reports on even in the face of incidents like this where the only real chance of harm was that the guy couldn't swim and might have drowned; or a technology where we don't report on anything at all whatsoever and thus have no idea what's actually going on?

Reports don't mean danger, and they don't mean lack of control. Reports are information.


Of the eight reports I only see one that relates to a guy being able to swim or not (and I suspect the same is true for the estimated 1400 reports so far this year). Also having transparency is obviously good and I don't understand what you want to prove with arguing that a worse situation would be worse. It clearly would be worse.

I'm also not totally against nuclear, in case you are suspecting that. I do think though, that we as a society aren't at the point where we have the ability to completely control such technology, contrary to what proponents of much higher utilization of nuclear like to claim. Reports of fuses seemingly without failover or stolen equipment seem to support that argument.


Did a coal miner write this comment?


Worse, an environmentalist.


Miner vs. straw man, who wins? :o)


I'd argue that most people like knowing that what they receive is what the original server sent(and vice versa) but maybe you enjoy ads enough to prefer having your ISP put more of it on the websites you use?

Jokes aside https is as much about privacy as is is about reducing the chance you receive data that has been tampered. You shouldn't only not use FTP because credentials but also because embedded malware you didn't put there yourself.


I, for one, would like to see an ISP dedicated enough and tecnically able to inject ads in my FTP stream. :)


Agree but also wonder if ISPs bother with this anymore, now that almost all websites are https.


I tried to open different themes in tabs for comparison, but I would have to first open each one and then manually copy the URL into a new tab because you implemented your links as <button> (which prevents both middle-click and 'open in new tab' context menu option to work).


Just shipped a fix, middle-click should work now. Thanks for the feedback


Yup, this is the incompetence that we see all over the place since these new frameworks have come and front end devs have no idea what HTML actually is or how it works.

Buttons are for submitting forms and nothing else.

In HTML a link is created using an <a> element.

React has a <Link> element for this purpose, it will be rendered as <a>.

Please OP, at least try to learn a little bit about the underlying technologies.


It has nothing to do with "new frameworks". ASP devs have been making buttons into links for decades.

Also, React does not have a Link element. Please at least try to learn a little bit about the underlying technologies.


The router does. We all know what they meant.


Mind sharing that documentation or spelling out what you mean by that or are you not going to consider different views on that anyways?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5-cWq1Lr4

https://youtu.be/-XItDbFSYBE

But to be fair ... it's a general problem with Die Grünen.

https://youtu.be/DbzRY9VF2zE?t=724

Reality is just a nuisance.


..or mouse for camera.

But I kind of understand it. I did a somehow similar project before and for people who are not trained in video game style controls it is quite hard to get used to them ad-hoc.

Assuming this project is at least partially aimed at art directors, project leads and such aka people who aren't necessarily gamers, detached movement/camera controls are a bit risky.


The mouse look was actually something I was kind of wanting wandering around.

There were a lot of cool scenic locations, that almost beg for the ability to just stand somewhere and look around, yet you can't really look down or up very conveniently.

Also, walking locations where you might fall, be kind of nice to be able to look at where you're aiming at. Minor nit mostly, just fit the explore a scenic island theme.


There is some level of mouse look. I suspect together with not locking the cursor/the cursor leaving the window, this is part of why people report issues.


Great implementation but reading the comments I wonder if there is really no sense of the streets as a commons you should use responsibly at all in the US.

Not that I am not annoyed by parking tickets, but I am also thankful for the enforcement when I use any means of moving through the city other than a car and at least where I live parking violations are really under-enforced. Maybe that's the difference in San Francisco?


Nope, same in Toronto. Same everywhere I've been. Drivers all mentally turn into teenagers when it comes to anything to do with driving/parking. I'm very pro traffic and parking enforcement.


I agree with the sentiment but I want to point out that a car is not essential for most people living in SF, although many people outside the city think this. Around 35% of households don’t have a car: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...


Very little of that anywhere in the country, especially when it's the rights of drivers vs other road users. San Francisco is a bit better but gets bad when it goes through its boom cycles that bring lots of people in.


Cars turn people into sociopaths.



Is he known to, like, reference his politics in his conference talks or something?


He is a consistent pot stirrer, whether it's his politics or his vendettas, and he never really stops talking about them


Is it ok to put Goebbels on a stage if he isn't talking politics?


Is it okay to smear pretty normal people as Nazis for no good reason?


I couldn't care less if Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot or even Bob Monkhouse[2] were pushing open source patches and contributing talks, as long as they:

- do not turn away from debate - do not turn to or espouse violence[1] - and their contributions were of merit

Since DHH has done none of that then the answer is "yes, it's okay to put him on a stage to talk about tech".

[1] I thank Karl Popper for showing the way here with his Paradox of tolerance.

[2] Bob was the master of self-deprecating jokes, I hope he would appreciate that one.


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