@joepie91 @sil what part of

[…] a net negative in my experience […]

is not clear?

Sorry, but it only takes few things to sour something for people.

• So far I've only seen #JavaScript being used to make sites more #inaccessible, more #bloated, less #privacy-friendly and more obnoxious!

Obviously #JS, alongside #Cookies and #Tracking, are mere tools of #Enshittification but that certainly is as much warranted as the shitstain #Blockchain and #NFTs got due to #CryptoBros using #Shitcoins to #PumpAndDump-#scam #TechIlliterates and #FinanceIlliterates that are "#HornyForMoney!"

• OFC that hurts honest people just like #Shitcoin-Scams hurt #Monero despite being technically incapable to being weaponized for #NFT-Bullshit like #NFTmalware.

Either we say "#Tech is #apolitical!" and accept diverging opinions and experiences to exist as equal

or

We say "#TechIsPolitical!" and ask "Who benefits?" from the rapid onset #Enshittification and purposefully engineered, #PlannedObsolescence due to #Bloatware, regardless if JS or #Windows11 or purposefully bricking support for legacy versions of #iOS.

#QuiBono #bloat

I saw an interesting article yesterday that said #Microsoft was finally admitting that some program of theirs was so bloated and #slow to start that it was harming the user experience, so they were considering pre-loading it at boot (or #login) time so #users wouldn't see the huge delay when they went to open it.

(Of course, that would slow down booting or login...)

But that program is ... Windows File Explorer.

So let me get this straight - a glorified file picker and directory navigator is so #bloated and slow it can't start up instantly? And thousands of engineers can't figure out how to make it fast or efficient?

Maybe they should ask #CoPilot to speed it up.

#FileExplorer #WindowsFileExplorer #treacle

#Putin #PutinCalendar #Rosenberg #VladimirPutin #SteveRosenberg #PutinIsAWarCriminal #Russia #War #UkraineWar #WarCrimes #zelensky #Zelenskyy #CrapCalendar #Walrus #FatRussianWalrus #Dictator #Bloated #BBC #BBCNews
Use them for lining the floor of your hamster’s cage, or better still, emergency toilet paper. Either way, they’re for sale, so don’t all rush at once…

@benni @lizzard nun, #GNUtils sind #bloated.

Frag' @landley welcher sich darüber beschwert hat dass #GNU cat >800 Zeilen Code hat (#BusyBox: 36, bin mir sicher #toybox ist sogar noch kleiner weil's nicht die Hälfte für Lizenzbestimmungen verbraucht wird!)

@OpenComputeDesign granted, #Enshittification of #Android is extreme and it is quite #bloated at this point.

I'm sorry, I should explain.

My last line was NOT meant to be a #dig at #ChinaMiéville. It's meant to be a dig at how #BLOATED #fantasy and #sciencefiction became since the 1990s.

As a young adult, I got burned out by #RobertJordan's #WheelofTime, THEN made the mistake of starting #GeorgeMartin's #Asoiaf (a mistake I corrected by putting "A Clash of Kings" down halfway through).

In the 1970s, #MichaelMoorcock proved you could write epics in less than 200 pages. A lesson I wish wasn't lost.

One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹ ², #Telegram, #Discord ³ ⁴, #WhatsApp 5, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

• WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?

• WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

• And no, bridges don't count!

• I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!

• Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

• Can we please get that back? Cuz #WastefulComputing pisses me off!

#api0 #Enshittification

Ah, because what the world really needs is another bloated, jargon-laden GitHub repo solving a problem nobody has. 🤖✨ #Open-source #AI browser automation: where developers desperately try to justify their existence by making your browser even more annoying. 🙄🚀
https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude #browser-automation #bloated-code #developer-humor #tech-satire #unnecessary-tools #HackerNews #ngated

@skyeweeb @ari for #bloated chrome/browser based infotainment systems written in pure js I guess?

I think all of us know the problem of the Web. I was wondering if it could be fixed by eliminating JS and using WASM for the same purpose(currently WASM needs some JS glue) By doing so we get rid of a big part which is the JS engine. And we also get rid of JS itself :)

Then creating a web engine would be easier and requiring less effort. If people need an easy to use scripting language, they could do #Lua.

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #askfediopinion #askfediverseopinion #web #webdev #wasm #javascript #JS #bloatedweb #bloatedsoftware #bloated

@eloy @merlin #UEFI and #AppStore are what's wrong with the whole concept of #EFI...

• it's #bloated & messy shite!

🚀 Oh wow, 15,000 lines of "verified" #cryptography in Python? Because, obviously, nothing screams #security like adding a small novel's worth of #code to an already #bloated #language. 🙄 Congrats to #Python for finally doing what every other language has been doing for years... but with more lines! 📜💥
https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

@KarlHeinzHasliP @denki which brings me back to my point that #CarManufacturers "#phat and #bloated" monstrosities need to die out for good…

PHP isn't dead. Laravel is just bloated. Here's what I made instead

https://github.com/jeremie5/dataphyre

#HackerNews #PHP #Laravel #Bloated #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #Dataphyre

😂Another Speech🎙️From the #Bloated #Blithering #Blathering #BlowHard #DonOLDCHUMP

Tonight #ComradeDonaldKrasnov 🤡 Appeared to be A #VeryInsecure individual

#Lying His way through 99% of the 📝Script …..Only as #TeleprompterTrump can Do.

It was Very #LOWENERGY As #DiaperDonnie Attacked Goverment Officials with Petty Name Calling, while he Stammered his way through the Teleprompter Text

#ConvictedFelon47
#LiarinChief
#MAGACultLosers
#MAGAWantedCheaperEggsNOTGREENLAND
#SOTU2025

Having that release ready and published I will do a lot of refactoring to make sure it is NOT #bloated.
REDUCE, REDUCE, REDUCE... until I HAVE to add back.

Btw the idea behind it comes from my #engineeringthesis on mobile app for #adhdpeople

Source via google docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZDhjpHpvUpks-BnaOS6-vZWueYaAMX8V9Vsr_IXwts/edit?usp=sharing

Download the pdf version: https://antonimalinowski.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Engineering-diploma-PRO3e-1.pdf

Say hello to my bloated ass lol I’m an aspiring gainer model. And I love teasing. #feedee #gainer #weightgain #wg #fat #chubby #bloated #overweight #bbw #GrowingCaitlin

Here’s your reminder to never cheapen out on replacement batteries from Amazon.

#hp
#hpstream
#battery
#bloated
#firehazard

@FirewallDragons needless to, say I'm dissatisfied with existing options re: #Firmware, espechally for.my prokects like #PocketCrypto [1], #Cryptofon [2] and #LambdaCrypt [3] that I started @OS1337 [4] as #OpenADK, #YoctoProject amd #LinuxFromScratch are either too #cringe, #bloated or #complex IMHO and I wantes something simple and auditable...