China isnt "all open source" they still keep their top models out of the public view. Its easy to "open source" models when they're so far behind very few will pay for them.

Open source in quotes because they are not open source and not even close to open source.

And what models do they keep out of public view? What ridiculous propaganda is this?!

Can't we stop using "open-source" when it is just freeware?

Open-weight is both meaningful and unique term.

Its always trying to cut bloat. Cant someone have a vision for a better internet that better caters to modern use cases and utilizes modern tech stacks to deliver the best possible experience? I dont see any value in going back to 100kb web pages

A significant amount of the bloat on the modern internet is to facilitate marketing and advertisements, not for the benefit of the user.

I often wonder if we see this downward spiral on sites, because their attempts to monetize increase their costs, which require them to increase monetization efforts, which increase…

If we stripped it back, how much would some of these sites really need to run?

Multimedia is inherently large, but there are a lot of diminishing returns as resolution and size increases.

I agree with this, and think even chip designers are starting to rent transistor parcels to advertisers like NASCAR jacket patches.

But seriously, without anyone addressing the elephant in the room, there is no way to make the web simple as ad less.

The newspapers of the late 19th century did this with color page cartoons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Kid

People bought the newspaper for the cartoons rather than the ads, but the ads supported to printing costs. Eventually the competition became so fierce one of the news giants lowered their cost to 1 penny.

Maybe lightweight internet use is a skill that needs to be trained. But with a solid connection for working, I see this less prioritized.

yes and no. I agree there is some amazing things that can be done with larger websites, but one has to wade through a lot of unoptimal sites to find the good ones.

Correct me if im wrong, but arent you trying to introduce a space where its impossible for larger websites to exist thus everything is restricted to the bare minimum website features like its 1999. I do not see the point in that, to me the problem isnt a blog with fancy JS vs a blog with static text. Its about corporations exerting outsized amounts of control over how people interact with the web. I want the new web to solve that problem and also be able to serve 4k video.

You can already do that. If your home page is a fediverse feed or client, the users provide the content without an algorithm. Many people who have a browser with a Google search bar might think corporations control a lot, but one can set a different browser, DNS, and search engine. The thing Steve Jobs did was simplify the out of the box experience, so when they bought a Mac, there'd only be a dock with Safari at the bottom. One could develop an open source machine with a very unitary goal of accessing a lightweight web using a protocol or extension similar to No script but the average non-technical user might not know how to do that.

Of the many Linux distros I've tested, maybe a handful are actually easy to use and not heavy. One example is Bodhi Linux. But I have something more like Tiny Core Linux in mind, except polished (it features a dock, surprisingly). If the hardware could be developed for this too as open hardware, there would be the added advantage of it having more ways to improve it. I'm a bit oxymoronic in having a vertically integrated product idea and an open source bias, but a lot of great ideas need a coherent outline, which sometimes start out as closed source.

If the project starts out with enthusiasm but it gets forked, then it becomes impossible to develop one feature that many people didn't realize would be overall a better user experience, or streamlined option, at the very least.

Its wild to me that people use those apple emoji people. It looks so bad.

That’s your clue that it’s AI, or do you want it so realistic that you don’t know the difference?

Sorry, i've not had an apply device in ages. Is the AI using the emoji icon or are people using it? I assumed people were using it.

This will come very soon and be the default, so it doesnt really matter what people want in this area.

he is objectively left wing. People are over indexing on his controversies instead of looking at his policy platform as a whole. Also take into account that he is in a democracy the leans right on many un-impactful but hot topic issues.

I like lineageOS but it feels cruel to give a kid who is dying for a smartphone a nexus5 with lineageOS on it.

He's fine with what it can do, he got it when he was 7. Some mobile games, music, streaming apps.

It's about as cruel as the 10yo MacBook I gave my daughter when she was younger. She loved that thing.

a spec on the budget compared to retiree support, military and healthcare.

The cheapest option would be to leave them in place and stop monitoring. Removing them is costly, but prevents anyone from ever re-initiating the buoys. Like when they told NASA to burn up a weather satellite they did not like.

requires a $9 weekly pass or $52 per year for an annual subscription. To overlay two images wow. There is nothing oldschool web about this, it should be free or ad supported

Why should you be able to traverse the internet anonymously? You cannot traverse real life society with the same expectations. Majority of the people traversing anonymously are doing so because they are routine troublemakers and do not want to bare consequences for their malicious actions. The ones fighting for this complete anonymity but not doing crime are naively just sweeping for bad actors.

One of the things that I liked about the old, text-based internet was the anonymity it provided. I particularly liked being able to engage in discussions about things that interested me without being sexualized, since nobody needed to know I was a teenage girl. No creepy messages, no looks up and down, no having to figure out ways to turn someone twice my age down without worrying if they'd react dangerously, no having to leave because someone more integral to the group was a creep and nobody would accept it if I spoke up, no worrying about my small statue making me a target for physical intimidation, etc.

(Now I am old, so it's different.)

It was very freeing to be able to talk about my interests (e.g. space, web development, and video game modding) without being subjected to the bullshit that people brought to the table if they saw me.

> You cannot traverse real life society with the same expectations.

I actually can. For real. I can not get job or housing anonymously, but overwhelming majority of my real life interactions are anonymous.

Same goes for the internet though. Privacy controls would be at a government level. All that we need is a way to actually hold someone accountable for their actions on the internet. Websites dont need to see who the actual person is.

Just peeping Fediverse for a few years i can only imagine how toxic that would get. It would be a constant ideological war.

talk to them and ask the question or call and ask?