In case you’re wondering how little old Kitten performs in the tests of the Big Boys…
(And that’s from a development build of a Domain page, not a deployment build so no compression, live reload script in page, etc.)
Turns out it’s pretty easy to ace such tests when you’re not spending cycles and code doing horrible things to people in your web pages (like tracking their every move and attempting to exploit their behaviour for profit). 🤔
💕
@aral The amount of human effort and power consumption that goes into generating and mining "clickstreams" is astonishing.
This accumulation of "digital exhaust" is a huge waste of human creativity and material resources that does *nothing* except serve capitalists. It's a huge industry that were it excised from society _everyone_ would benefit.
And i classify as bullshit job every single one in this racket.
@aral @avirr It is a common reaction to say that progress wouldn't have occurred if these applications weren't funded by <insert capitalist venture>.
I call bullshit on that.
It implies that only capitalism fuels innovation, which is a blatantly uninformed position and useful only as post hoc justification of externalities.
"Sure, we may have caused all this harm, but look at this one problem that got solved by the tech we developed"
Yeah, how about we solved _that_ specific problem instead?
Aral Balkan
Chris Gioran 💔
Avi Rappoport (avirr)
Witek Kowalik