Privacy is very important but its just a drop in the ocean compared to environmental disaster. Google tracking you browse the internet seems unimportant compared extinction.

Advertising is fueling that extinction; why else would we consume so much, in such a wasteful way?

This is where these two issues beautifully tie together: Saving the environment is important - consuming less is a way to do say - with less paying consumers, adds become less valuable - less incentive to violate privacy.

This raises a question, how much does the cancer that is advertising & analytics consumes in terms of electricity and engineering time that could've been put to better use?

Computers use next to nothing in total. Almost all energy is used on heating/cooling, transport and farming.

It still means we're wasting energy cooling computers that are used for advertising & stalking. Those computers can be put to better use instead.

The bigger problem is advertising drives needless and wasteful consumption.

It certainly accompanies it (can you imagine a world where there was needless and wasteful consumption, but no one bothered to advertise?). I wouldn't be so sure about causation.

If you can't imagine a world with wasteful consumption but no advertising, that kind of tentatively rules out "wasteful consumption causes advertising". What remains is "advertising causes wasteful consumption" and "wasteful consumption and advertising are both caused by a third thing", but given that advertising is literally the art and science of making people buy more stuff, the "advertising causes wasteful consumption" option seems the most probable.

Couldnt get it to load but it would be nice if it was not just limited to github. I have a few issues on my project on gitlab labeled good first issue.

Out of curiosity, is that a common label? The site isn’t great on mobile, so I’m unsure if that’s in the integration or just an example you gave.

i'm not sure if it's a default label but a huge amount of projects use it.

There was some issues with AWS cloudfront not handling SPA correctly which should be fixed now

Much better than telegram which has in the ToS that you may not make a client that does not sent read receipts.

I'm far less concerned about this because all my messages were end to end encrypted.

Iirc jquery was also the most hated just under drupal

This gets posted a lot but there are so many versions of jquery on so many different cdns that very rarely is it the case. I saw some research on it and it was in the single digit percentage of times.

I dont hate jQuery but I just find it useless for modern web dev. If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.

I tried vuejs recently for a little interactive page on my website and found it revolutionary compared to jquery.

> If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.

There are still lots of people who can't sadly.

That said while yes you can do everything jQuery does in vanilla JS (jQuery is written in vanilla JS after all) you often end up with more code than using jquery which means more to read through, more to understand.

So saying it is useless is a bit harsh, it may be useless for you but it's not for many and if you look at what the jquery folks are doing with deprecations you can see they are refactoring jquery to use the vanilla js stuff that was added in large part because of jquery so it'll likely definite itself out of existence at some point anyway.

How can you possibly develop a product when none of your developers have been around for more than a few months?

If the entire industry is less productive, it's not a business problem.

Overworked employees a probably cheeper per hour too.

This reminded me that when I try to imagine things while almost sleeping the imagination will be actively sabotaged unless I focus very hard to wressle back control.

If I'm thinking of a plane flying it will spin out of control, if I'm thinking of sheep jumping over a fence they will stop moving or the fence will fall over.

I always wondered why people would suggest "counting sheep" as it seemed like something that'd keep me awake rather than feel sleepy. I seem to have some form of aphantasia as I can only conjure up very disjointed and foggy images with no real details.

So imagining not only one sheep but a number of sheep on a field jumping over a fence is something I can only just barely approximate with such considerable mental effort that it even makes me feel slightly anxious. This seems entirely unlike what the exercise apparently is meant to accomplish.

I can mostly picture things but its not particularly vivid like a photo. If I think of a big area it kind of seems like there is a spotlight of detail where the focused area I am thinking of will be fairly detailed but the rest fades away.