Thursday 28th February, 2019 #
- Just ran the "open browser, open techmeme" test on Safari, and there is hardly even a blip on the cores utilisation, the laptop hardly even notices that an app was opened and a page was loaded - I will be mostly browsing using Safari for the next few days
- Everyone keeps writing about how latest Firefox (65.0.1) has fixed all the performance issues, yet in my unscientific tests of "open browser then open techmeme.com" it maxes out all processor cores on my laptop for 20secs, entire laptop goes into slowmotion, Chrome has the page loaded and all cores back to normal in around 4-5 seconds and the cores never go above 85% utilisation (measured using htop)
- EastEnders' pub faces losing it's license after supervisor told PC investigating complaints of late-night lock-ins to "Have a fucking drink, it will help you fucking relax for fuck's sake" - Maybe each time Google force log's in a user it should send the user a 6 pack of beers to have while they are locked in, delivered via drone, we are living in the future after all
- Today I have been mainly dealing with major internet connectivity issues and listening to this Cure track over and over and over, fyi the album version is better than the youtube version
- Really fucking dull article about China doing face recognition on pigs - well done guys, just fantastic, we are living in the future (no flying cars yet though)
- What a linkblog would have looked like in the original WorldWideWeb browser - none of the javascript works, but surprisingly it's mostly readable - Document->Open from full document reference :)
- We Need Chrome No More - I note while reading this that Chrome has forced logged me into the browser yet again - test several times now when I log into Gmail I get force logged into Chrome, for fuck's sake Google
- 'Centuries of entitlement' - Emma Thompson on why she quit Lasseter film - Lasseter is the ex-creative director of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios and his downfall had been one of the key landmarks of the Me Too and Times Up campaigns