So in other words, coding was done manually in the past, and that was used to build up more complex stuff, and then that more complex stuff is copy-pasted or combined to make Current Year "apps"? If so, that could explain that "watered down smartphone feel" they got.
The HTML of this page does not look too complex. Of course KF isn't exactly a typical "corporate slop" site of the Current Year 'net.
If it's Android we're talking about, it could be non-split APKs. Universal APKs have support for 3+ architectures stuffed inside them. Compare the Youtube app using APKMirror archives. 5.3.23 circa 2013 (7.3 MB, no API hell, no multiarch), 11.49.55 circa 2017 (23.9 MB, getting worse, architectures are split at least), 15.34.36 circa 2020 (80.3 MB, multiarch APK), 17.20.37 circa 2022 (117.7 MB, multiarch APK, time to Get A Better Phone
). There's also this Stackoverflow question where the dev is pulling in tons of native libraries that bloat the resulting size. Multiply by architecture if they're stupid and don't want to split the APK. Witness the horror:
Wasn't that hard. What finally pushed me over the edge was googling some images from my favourite childhood videogame - jazz jackrabbit - and having AI shoved into my face. Having my own instance is faster and I obviously have way more control - if you have a server I 100% recommend it. I even found [this](https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist) helpful blacklist to block a lot of the AI sites and immediately converted it to the correct format (I'll still have to tweak it, but tomorrow, it is 6am here already) and used it. I've been playing around with browsing for ~1 hour and it feels so refreshing. You can even replace some sites with other ones in search results (for example, if the engines return a youtube link, you can choose to receive it as a piped.video link) and place lower/higher priority on sites (give really low priority to fandom so it does not overtake non-cancer wikis). While configuring it I also found that you can even add file systems or databases as search engines, so if you had this innaccesible from the internet it could be great for searching on your NAS or whatever. Only downside so far is that it runs on python.
The list apparently has some issues to consider, according to this post:
Yeah, it has some issues, as could be expected from a list that has some woke spam in its header xd. But so far it looks like a solid foundation to build on, mostly the AI image sites.
I welcome the KF experience in full, including the random 502 Bad Gateway errors, if it means it never changes to one of these newer layouts that make me want to rip my hair out.
It's craptastic human nature to want power over others?
maybe for some extremely vocal niggercattle, but there are words like "revolution" and "tyranny" for describing their bullshit and how to end it once and for all and different cultures and countries throughout human history and the history of the internet for good reason.
Hilariously, the best Windows file search tool is still cmd. Not Powershell, this command won't even work in Powershell. Only cmd.
I think a much more healthier way of thinking about this is the fact that humans are naturally tribalistic, and are going form communities that self select for particular personality traits and behaviors. You should not necessarily assume moderation is the problem. You should treat it as a learning experience to find your own niche. There are just people who can't handle free speech, and you can't do much to change that. This also applies to situations, in life, outside of the internet too.
I noticed the changes too. Google image search used to work with a layout more like Yandex, now it does the vertical split screen BS.
Because gookmoot wants you to buy a 4chan pass.
Well that's BS. Also, "Cloudflare" really is gaining way too much power over the internets.
I think it stops sending captchas once you make a couple of posts, not sure if works the same way with a VPN.
yeah by the time you've written your reply waited 15 minutes completed the captcha the thread you're replying to is dead.
Kikeflare is a glorified MITM and anybody who chooses to use it as a part of their service "protection" is a literal retard, fuck cloudflare
