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"An 8K video is 10 times heavier and more polluting than an HD video. On your smartphone, you literally can't even see the difference. It's pointless waste."

From '99th Day: A Warning About Technology' by Gerry McGovern

#Enshittification
#Books

Passage from ebook edition: "This magic dial often depends on a dance between software and hardware. The hardware gets faster and cheaper and with more storage capacity. The software gets bigger and heavier and more processor intensive. The software eats the hardware gains and you're running fast and still falling behind. You must now watch 8K video and therefore must buy a new phone. An 8K video is 10 times heavier and more polluting than an HD video. On your smartphone, you literally can't even see the difference. It's pointless waste. And even if you don't want to upgrade, you have to. That work scheduling app demands that you upgrade, your bank app demands that you upgrade, your government apps demand that you upgrade. Things that last have long been the enemy of Big Tech. The longer a product lasts, the less money Big Tech will make. So they design minimally viable products."
#books #enshittification

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Ken Milmore
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TBH it's not just big tech. Everyone involved in technology gets bored with old things and wants to replace them with new ones. I see a lot of unnecessary churn in open source software and wonder what it is really for.
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@Ciara

99% of time 720p is enough. You can share it without waiting too much time for the upload.

It happens to me very seldom that I need higher resolution.

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Cycling on Rails
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@max Turns out DVD resolution was 480p. And we were watching movies just fine!

Also, 720p fits under 10 Mbps, no need to upgrade to that Gbps link!

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Jonathan Schofield
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turning the ‘up slope’ of video into a cliff for us to fall off mastodon.social/@urlyman/11276…

Jonathan Schofield

2024-07-11 11:28:00

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According to httparchive.org/reports/page-w…, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:

Over the last 14.5 years:

HTML
2010: 20KB;
mid 2024: 33KB;
Increase of 65%.

Images
2010: 229KB;
mid 2024: 1,062KB;
Increase of 464%.

JavaScript
2010: 89KB;
mid 2024: 640KB;
Increase of 719%.

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Over the last 9 years:

Video
mid 2015: 173KB;
mid 2024: 3,872KB;
Increase of 2,238%.

I reckon that in the era of AI the JS gradient is gonna steepen significantly

#climateDiary

The figures in the post, plotted in proportion to one another, titled ‘The vector of unsustainable web page weight’.

HTTP Archive: Page Weight

This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
HTTP Archive

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webhat
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@urlyman we soon won't have to worry about HTML, with the reactification of the web browsers will deprecate the HTML part. The parser is full of hacky code anyway, to support old poorly written HTML /s

I'm being sarcastic, and I've actually heard something similar

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Jonathan Schofield
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@webhat
quietly removing ‘rtext’ from Hypertext Markup Language? 😬

@CiaraNi

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Jeroen van Bergen
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At work, I make a lot of screenshots, highlight the part of interest and pass it on to someone else. The content is just an application running in a web browser. I would love to have a tool that would extract the content as formatted text, leaving the layout as it was.
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Ray McCarthy
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Even 4K needs you to be about 1.5m from a 72" screen to see much difference from upscaled HD.

HD (1080p) with higher frame rate (say 96 fps) is more use than QHD or 4K, unless it's a screen the size of a wall.

Even 1080p is a bit pointless on a smartphone.

My phone was Android 8 and the local AnPost Banking killed the Web interface. The App needed Android 10 minimum. They claimed the App was more secure.
An Android App isn't more secure. See fines against Google & Malware on phone.

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Ciara
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@raymaccarthy The constant app updates are truly dementing and almost always pointless in practice.
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