Notices by Morten J.-J. Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf@mstdn.io), page 12

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.

The Big Lebowski at 20: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman & Steve Buscemi Reunite to Discuss the Coen Brothers’ Beloved Film http://www.openculture.com/?p=1057032 https://t.co/GO7JBcevzl

A data only Sim card which won't function unless it's through #Tor. Genius idea for the #privacy conscious folks out there! #infosec #security
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3qqj7/sim-card-forces-data-through-tor-brass-horn-communications

A win for #privacy! Now make your voice heard so that all countries follow the Danish example: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/denmark-email-encryption-gdpr

#CallForKnowledge - An old LUG friend is interested in static site generators. I was asked if there are any options that will run on Linux AND Android for deployment on the go?

Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/13/mozilla_firefox_kills_rss/ - "Feed previews and live bookmarks are used in only about 0.01 per cent of sessions" - that seems like quite a few to me?