Notices by thunfisch (thunfisch@chaos.social)

Heute mal statt dem üblichen Griff zu #Django 'ne Ecke kleiner arbeiten und #Flask und #sqlalchemy ausprobieren. Bisher schaut's ganz nett aus. Und bald können die Leute dann bei mir per Webinterface selbstständig ihre Postfächer & Passwörter verwalten. Das DB-Schema von @thomas war schnell umgesetzt :)

Let that sink in: I am unable to retrieve 5-10kb of text/information, because someone thought it to be necessary to bundle that little nugget of information with hundreds of kb to several mb of javascript bullshit to make some menu glow when you hover over it, or track you for consumer-manipulation purposes.

THIS is what is keeping other countries with low bandwidth internet connections out of our information world/age.

Stuff like Hacker News, Instant messaging, IRC (over weechat+tmux+ssh), and _thoughtfully_ built websites are still usable. A bit slow, but you can get stuff done.

OTOH: Every damn news website, Google, e-commerce platforms, etc are outright unusable. Like, I am technically unable to use them because the stuff so much !@#$ down my browser throat, that connections are timing out.

So, since las thursday i've been forced to use LTE for everything, because some telco-technician #$%ed up my DSL/Telephone cable while owrking on another line.

Apparently, they still haven't been able to fix it. In the meantime, my data cap for LTE has long been reached, and I've been surfing the net with ~2 kb/s for the past few days.

Let me tell you: I've gained a whole new impression of the "modern" internet. And it's not a good one.

Hm, apparently #letsencrypt now provides mor than 50% of the web certificates.

On one hand: FUCKING AWESOME.

On the other: Shit. They're getting very powerful and we are centralizing our trust. I think we could reallu use 2-3 new orgs like Letsencrypt, with similar technology and mission statement, but entirely independent.

Are there any out there yet?