Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.

The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.

Yeah, that would be a high priority item that I’m sure was part of the talk.

That may not be the wisest choice. For one thing, the client side can be as fast or faster than the ‘server’ side. Sending data to a ‘server’ which is ‘serving’ as a mainframe (reverting to a model from the past) will consume more time and bandwidth. So much for the performance goals.

That also has the potential to create securiity concerns at both ends (which were not intense in those bye-gone days of yesteryear). Furthermore, wny should the client trust the quality of the code the ‘server’ uses? The popularity of the ‘new’ frameworks aside, the cost of bandwidth and processing by the ‘server’ will be born by the ‘client’. I’m not seeing any pluses except for thin clients, and big potential pluses for the ‘serving’.

Huh. Took 'em a while. A few years of Reagan proved that point long ago.

I can’t speak for the performance of frameworks, but today’s ‘vanilla’ javascript both compiles and executes blisteringly fast. The better-optimized it is, the better. Staying away from modern syntactic sugar may also help.

I can understand that those who choose to use frameworks may be newcomers, or may have productivity pressures. Neither source of slowdowns can be blamed in JS itself.

But this headline distorts that reality by leaving out the fact that the article itself is about using JS frameworks. Whatever the ‘long-term performance goals’ may be, writing the fastest code can’t hurt them. Suggesting otherwise is a disservice to JS.

" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …

It might get better just before the next election …

"Reportedly.’

That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.

Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?

Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.

I think we’ll have to wait until about 48 days after the House falls on the Wicked Witch of the East.

The state of the web … is fucking abysmal.

Like the whole rest of the world… that’s the users’ faults, not the developers.

Yes yes a thousand times yes! The web exists to enable interaction more than cracking open a book or magazine. If all you’re after is blogs, sure, turn it off.

Static pages are fine if you don’t want to interact with them. Books have been around since the 1400s.

But they won’t let you search a whole book for particular name, place, term. Or take your input and calculate answers for you? Or let you create music or art? etc. etc.

Without JS, most webpages couldn’t do 1/10th of what they do. There’d just be text and pictures. OK for fairytale books.

Not since the last years of the Roman Empire has there been such a fine example. Also an even better example of how to tear your own gang to shreds.

Have a look at ‘Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit’ here: https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html These ideas are ‘common sense’ to ’ people who Quantum for a living’. Immortality - right or wrong- is WAY OUTSIDE what’s within the reach of day-to-day science.

Penrose is a talented and knowledgeable guy who’s can afford to ‘think outside the box’ without making crazy claims. The guy who thought up plate tectonics was ‘rushed out of the room’ for 50 years … until people realized the value of his idea.

The main points are there in text. If you want to hear more about each point, the YT video goes into them in detail.

I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.

Parents will get the behavior they reinforce. My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER responded. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.

Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they’re colored in red.

“And … what do you do?”

“Are you sure you’re ready to know?”