Notices tagged with javascript
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Sep-2020 00:20:50 UTC ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://nu.federati.net/avatar/2-48-20170112021558.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
JS-based webapps are a lot like adding salt to one's food. There's a point where you're simulating food with colored salt. No matter how appealing it looks, it is still nasty and harmful.
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-2020 20:16:09 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
#JavaScript should be off-by-default and enabled on a per-site basis ... and only if necessary for some particular site function.
I just visited http://diveintomark.org/ just to see whether Mr. Pilgrim decided to come back one more time. Instead, I see one of those "this site works better with JS enabled" messages. Being me, I CTRL+U and view source. Yep, just as expected. Adsense.js ... I didn't read farther, so I don't know whether this is one of those squatters.
Nope. Not going to turn on JS. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 20:42:51 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
In the late 1990s, when I had a computer running #Win95, with 32MB of RAM, one of my brothers had started playing an online game with "hive" as part of its name. Anyway, I was recently curious and wondered what the original game was and whether it was still around. I don't have a firm conclusion, but I did discover at least one "hive" game that currently exists. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive
(NOTE: page is #JavaScrippled. Since I was looking but not playing, I did not turn on #JavaScript to see what it does.) -
N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 00:16:31 UTC 
N-5-O-body
Had to restart #Palemoon because it was getting slow. Too much #JavaScript / #JabbaShit bloating up its memory and CPU consumption. I'd really like it if most sites went on a JS diet and cut out most of the unwanted and unnecessary scripts. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 02:18:56 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@musicman I'm sure there are more efficient ways to read logs, but I often use either
A: "grep errorname /path/to/logfile | less"
when I know what I'm looking for
or
B: "tail -n someLargeNumber /path/to/logfile | less"
(or sometimes "tail -n someLargeNumber /path/to/logfile | head -n someSmallerNumber | less")
when I'm just wanting to see the most recent someLargeNumber entries or some earlier subset of the most recent someLargeNumber entries.
But most of the time, there will be at least one script tag that is loading #JavaScript. The src attribute will give a path where that is coming from. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2020 02:30:58 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
How disease modelers try to forecast the spread of diseases https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/disease-modeling-coronavirus-cases-reopening/ [www washingtonpost com]
Includes #JavaScript based modeling exercise.
Uses an imaginary disease because #COVID-19 is too complicated for this simple toy model. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2020 17:07:09 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Probably time to look into replacing Rutabaga (the Lenovo IdeaPad with 2G of RAM and 32G of eMMC disk). I was using it to look up some instructions for something I was doing on another machine. One link opened YouTube in another tab and immediately froze the machine.
After a reboot, I went back in. The next link opened a tab full of #JavaScript. The #JabbaShit, predictably, sucked up all the RAM and froze the machine again.
Then I thought, I won't use the browser at all. Opened an IDE, which immediately started downloading updates and again froze the machine.
I think #sonTwo had the same sort of issues with a different model (but similar specs) IdeaPad. He had to replace it with something that has better specs. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2020 17:46:39 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@musicman @geniusmusing That’s mostly #Node.js, which is a somewhat outdated fork of Chrome’s V8 engine. Considering that the browser is the least secure part of modern computers, and the #JavaScript engine is a key part of that insecurity, it is up to each person to decide whether to accept the risk.
Personally, I’m willing to accept Node, but only in a completely separate VM or VPS from other server-side software. Which explains why I never have hosted a Pump.io instance. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2020 04:35:23 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
#Opa — http://opalang.org/ Opa — a language that compiles into #JavaScript ( client-side and server-side [ #Node.js ] + #MongoDB as the database. The language did a pivot ... it was originally a very functional oriented language written in #Ocaml.
#Ur / #Urweb — http://www.impredicative.com/ur/ — a functional oriented language that copies some features from Standard ML ( #SML ), #Haskell, and #Ocaml and has libraries for web-related features.
Looking at their sites, it looks like Opa has a more updated site and possibly a more updated language (though there was a release of Ur this year).
I’ve watched them on and off for several years. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 01:54:01 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
In general, using #JavaScript this way is despicable enough that I'm in favor of visiting them regularly (with JS turned off) to repeatedly demonstrate its ineffectiveness. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 01:24:22 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
You can calculate how many years it will take you to hit level 40 in #Pokemon Go -- https://nu.federati.net/url/267574 [forbes com]
Turn off #JavaScript, so their paywall stops working. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2020 19:07:24 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
Want to help out people trying to free their #JavaScript? Join the #LibreJS mailing lists and the free JS taskforce at https://u.fsf.org/fb9 and https://u.fsf.org/314. -
Free Software Foundation (fsf@framasphere.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2020 19:05:33 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
Want to help out people trying to free their #JavaScript? Join the #LibreJS mailing lists and the free JS taskforce at https://u.fsf.org/fb9 and https://u.fsf.org/314.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2020 01:51:42 UTC 
Strypey
Come on #Tidelift, do you really need to serve #Javascript from 12 third-party domains? Surely static HTML/CSS is all you need for this simple brochureware web page, for example:
https://tidelift.com/about/careers -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 03:00:49 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@geniusmusing AFAIK he's never touched it, but he's in an online course now where he'll be using #Python, #Ruby, #JavaScript, and #C. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 18:34:32 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@musicman @strypey Also, in the process of reading about it, I came across https://nu.federati.net/url/266568 [wapo]
Turn off #JavaScript / #JabbaShit and their “turn off your adblocker” garbage won’t interfere.
There are still a number of places where I saw “underfunded and ineffective”, but this is someone that worked there (possibly during the time when Trump is said to have shut down PRT). -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 02:38:59 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Wow. #sonTwo, who turned from the #Unix administration (local college course taught using #Linux and #FreeBSD) and C++ (local college course using Windows IDE) to theater and photography when he was in high school, suddenly finds himself needing to become acquainted with #JavaScript. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 03:18:09 UTC
Strypey
@xj9
> my view of the future of computer: https://xj9.io/posts/2019/programming-for-the-next-billion/A lot to agree with here. One thing that's missing though. The layer of software users interact with directly, is often *not* built by a software engineer, but by a graphic designer. Most #Javascript, for example. Moving this into user control, wherever possible, and putting the rest in the hands of competent engineers (paid or unpaid), would be a net improvement for all 3 groups.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Mar-2020 03:11:05 UTC
Strypey
@badrihippo there's sites out there that do nothing with #Javascript disabled, and crash my browser if I let them run their woefully overengineered scripts. If I need or want to browse them anyway, something like Browsh seems ideal.
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 02:49:45 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
If I get TME* this week, I'll set up a #Friendica instance for !fnetworks ... membership is only available to people with currently active Federati accounts.
I was going to set up #Pleroma, but the PleromaFE interface has too much #JavaScript / #JabbaShit piled up ... It causes my browsers to repeatedly pop up warnings about a hung script.
Consider it a testing instance for the time being
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