Charlie WelchSep 2
drmorr

2005: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this can't be a trustworthy source of information

2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet

Sep 1 at 5:11pmWeb
Show threadJonathan YuSep 1

@drmorr Ah, now I understand the design aesthetic of the ACRL blog... 😝

You have to stop posting things that make these cheap shots so easy! Haha.

Although, and I am not sure whether this is positive or a bleak reflection of the current zeitgeist, ACRL is indeed one of the last bastions of trustworthy information on the Internet. Some of the best and finest information around!

Show threadRudi (ryjelsum)Sep 2
@drmorr i think the people who i trust to provide the best technical documentation and discussion all have webpages with very little or even zero CSS styling
Show thread"Musty Bits" McGeeSep 2
@rudi @drmorr I mean that's cause they're systems or back end. Tbh if I was looking for front end wisdom I'd probably accept that something snappy with almost pure HTML and CSS is a good source
Show threadLaurent BercotSep 2
@rudi @drmorr I knew the laziness that prevented me from ever writing a decent CSS for my documentation would pay off eventually!
Show threadpatterSep 3
@rudi @drmorr and persomable websites with a variety of pages. sure, I may have come for technical documentation on this API or programming language, but I'm not gonna turn down a free photoblog of your dog
Show threaddrmorrSep 3
@patterfloof @rudi brb gonna go add some dogs to my website now
Show threadQybatSep 3
@rudi @drmorr That would be my site.
Show threadiweinSep 2
@drmorr awwww thanks for the compliment 😂
Show threadDave McSep 2
@drmorr we've entered a new historical era. All human information after 2022 has to be assumed to be tainted by GenAI and subject to enshitification. We are now in the crapocene.
Show threadMaría Arias de ReynaSep 2
@guigsy @drmorr Every photo or video after 2017 may be manipulated and can't be trusted either
Show threadDave McSep 2
@delawen @drmorr Dall-e was probably the first popular transformer based image generator. That didn't appear until 2021, and it was limited to 256x256 images, often with far too many fingers and teeth. Plausible fakes didn't appear until later. And generated video is only just about doable this year (see Will Smith's spaghetti).
Show threadMaría Arias de ReynaSep 2

@guigsy @drmorr But faked photos and videos "by professionals" were indistinguishable earlier. Estimated (not by me) to have a breaking point around 2017

The term deepfake dates back to that year for a reason https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake

Can't find quickly the article that made that estimation.

Deepfake - Wikipedia

Show threadDave McSep 2
@delawen @drmorr CGI and Photoshop have been realistic and feasible for a couple of decades. The issue is that it required a bit of skill. So the volume of deceiving images was relatively small. Whereas genAI can fake with a text prompt in minutes.
Show threadMaría Arias de ReynaSep 2
@guigsy @drmorr There is a difference between realistic and undistinguishable. That's where deepfakes enter.
Show threadBrick DuckSep 2
@guigsy @drmorr when I’m really concerned about accuracy I use DuckDuckGo’s date range feature to exclude results newer than 2022
Show threadDeanSep 2
@woltiv I never thought of using dates for image search, thanks!
Show threadBeeCyclingSep 2
@guigsy @drmorr I recently saw a fun retrospective type of theory. The reason why characters in Star Trek are so inexplicably keen on art and culture from the 20th century and earlier, is because after the coming of generative AI, that was the end for anything actually worthwhile in the way of creative work. Nothing worth remembering was created after that.
Show threadmanuSep 2

@beecycling @guigsy that's not true.

humans are still creating unique and interesting art. it's just surrounded by an ocean of shit.
just like humans are still creating websites by editing HTML files today. you just rarely find them if you're not explicitly looking for them.

Show threadDave McSep 2
@c3manu @beecycling The issue is going to be that art will pay even less. And be harder to become recognised amongst the derge. And when it is recognised, it'll be AI copied. If artists struggled before, it'll be many times harder to carve out an existence now.
Show threadmanuSep 2
@guigsy @beecycling that sounds like a way smaller problem to me than humans stopping to create worthwile art.
Show threadDave McSep 2
@c3manu @beecycling it'll stop the majority of humans from creating worthwhile art. That's pretty bad.
Show threadmanuSep 2
@guigsy @beecycling the majority of humans is arguably not creating any art at all. but i agree it's an additional incentive i probably didn't consider enough yet.
Show threadKyle Memoir 🍉Sep 3

@guigsy @drmorr

And mendacitocene.

Show threadWatchful CitizenSep 2
@drmorr in a world where everything is presumed to be fake or ai generated I think this is the effect of humans becoming more drawn to authenticity instead of polished crap. I like it
Show threadHistorySheWroteSep 2
@drmorr I feel seen. 😊
Show threadMylesRydenSep 2

@drmorr

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Real truth never comes on a WEBSITE, it comes in the middle of an infinite scroll of random people curated by AI!

Show threadferricoxideSep 2
@drmorr

Bring back GeoCities and HotDog …But you can leave ColdFusion and Flash in the rubbish bin.
Show threadRosySep 2
@ferricoxide there's a new version of geocities called neocities!
Show threadferricoxideSep 2
@lalah

Heh. Why not: fuckery in the streaming media space has led to a resurgence in piracy, so, may as well bring back everything that predated the Zuckerbergs of the world.
Show threadJonathan LamotheSep 2
@drmorr To be fair, most of the sites I trust do work pretty well because they're not crippled by a massively bloated framework and wasting precious resources gathering every iota of personal data on me they possibly can.
Show threadTassomanSep 2
https://tassoman.com it does, seriously.
Tassoman Pigi

My personal vintage homepage

Show threadDaniele TricoliSep 2

@tassoman the cat page is awesome! 

@drmorr

Show threadAdrian MoralesSep 2
@drmorr In 2005 some of us were still too young and ignorant to understand that these blasted techbros wanted to control the entire Internet.
Show threadDrYakSep 2
@drmorr Plot twist: it's the same website, by the same author. Author got older and is now at a University, and is the only one in her class actually studying the subjects instead of relying on chatGPT to give her the answers.
Show threaddrmorrSep 2
@dryak corporate needs you to find the difference between these websites
Show threadChristian Berger DECT 9314Sep 2
@drmorr Alternatively:
2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a highly paid design team of top notch web designers and therefore barely works, but that's not a problem as it contains no information.
Show threadMaki 🔻Sep 2
@drmorr That reminds of
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
https://bestmotherfucking.website/
https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
which are all satire sites with mainly HTML, CSS, and/or JS.
Motherfucking Website

Show threadKasanwa Solane is a techieSep 2
@RandamuMaki @drmorr seems you don’t know about the https://bestestmotherfucking.website/ created by @vantablack
It’s pretty fun :3
the bestest motherfucking website

Show threadMaki 🔻Sep 2
@techie @drmorr @vantablack It's glorious... I'm awestruck.
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.Sep 3
@RandamuMaki @techie @drmorr @vantablack Wow, that triggered geocities PTSD flashbacks.
Show threadscriptjunkieSep 2
@drmorr also, .php https://social.scriptjunkie.us/@sj/115135994420975770
scriptjunkie (@sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)

Attached: 1 image PHP

Scriptjunkie Social
Show threadBjarneSep 2
@drmorr Was recently looking for a multimeter and stumbled upon this site: https://lygte-info.dk/info/DMMReviews.html Which would probably fit that description well.
Index of reviewed multimeters table

Show threadStefan NeufeindSep 2
@drmorr 2025: Even KI can do better today ... so your site may actually be authentic 😉
Show threadLars BrinkhoffSep 4
@drmorr See also: "Prof. Dr. Style" of web design. https://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
Prof. Dr. Style

It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.

Show threadSteven SandovalSep 4
@drmorr The lower the amount of JavaScript, the easier it is to archive and track changes over time. Ideally, all important information is linked to via static web pages.