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even this "ascii" (i expected raw text but still got html+css) was hardly readable for me, had to reach to the reader view, finally readable, ohh... looks much like ai-generated, why did i spend so much time jumping over obstacles...

cryo32 · 2026-05-06T11:54:36 1778068476

The length and rambling nature of it was a clear AI indicator.

This is unfortunately the problem with the Boring Internet. It's subject to the common denominator which is shite. And LLMs generate a lot of that.

officialchicken · 2026-05-06T10:30:17 1778063417

CSS always counters the conceptual and philosophical use of hypertext.

pimlottc · 2026-05-06T11:13:56 1778066036

Color contrast in the text version isn’t great either

trelbutate · 2026-05-06T09:38:10 1778060290

Yeah, scroll fade might be useful sometimes but most of the time it's just annoying.

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

duskdozer · 2026-05-06T11:04:20 1778065460

Fortunately my "defenses" worked on this one, though CSS only doesn't seem to have been enough. I don't care if they want to make the user feel like they're living in a blingee gif by default, I just desperately want pages to respect prefers-reduced-motion

RadiozRadioz · 2026-05-06T10:31:21 1778063481

What are the times in which it is useful?

If those are referenced in the linked article, I'll be honest I didn't read it. That website succeeds whole handedly in its job of being too annoying to read.

trelbutate · 2026-05-06T12:52:03 1778071923

To be honest I don't know of any, I just didn't want to be outright dismissive of it. If you just use it for a header to have some kind of small animation that grabs the reader's attention I guess it's fine. Just don't use it for the main text body.

chneu · 2026-05-06T13:59:19 1778075959

Some news articles work well with a long scroll. Usually to progress through the "time" of the article. But yeah most of the time it's just annoying.

cyanydeez · 2026-05-06T10:35:44 1778063744

im sure theres a class of people who gauge their willingness to read based on the length of scroll.

adrithmetiqa · 2026-05-06T10:44:33 1778064273

I am reaching for “reader mode” in my browsers all the time as they cut through these design choices that don’t agree within my eyes

It really helps to focus in the content rather than the fluff.

duskdozer · 2026-05-06T10:55:34 1778064934

I should probably be doing this instead of fruitlessly expanding my blocklist. I'm frustrated that extensions don't work in reader view though.

pamcake · 2026-05-06T07:41:15 1778053275

Another good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/

Antibabelic · 2026-05-06T13:02:38 1778072558

Land of Lisp is actually a very, very bad introduction.

pamcake · 2026-05-06T03:59:42 1778039982

Konform Browser

Mullvad Browser

Tor Browser for those occasions

pamcake · 2026-05-04T08:41:34 1777884094

Obscurity isn't security but it can support security. Until it doesn't.

hackeraccount · 2026-05-04T17:26:27 1777915587

I think I got the difference in my head. How about this:

Obscurity is decreasingly effective as more people use it. Security is more effective as more people use it.

pamcake · 2026-05-04T08:38:58 1777883938

I think I agree. But at the same time we have strength in numbers and people will find something close to what they want and fork off that.

So I think the same thesis holds for audiences of 10-100 and 100-1000.

A cambrian explosion of software.

pamcake · 2026-05-04T08:21:36 1777882896

It transformed. Same name, different browser.

i_think_so · 2026-05-05T13:45:58 1777988758

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midori_%28web_bro...

> programming language = originally in [[C (programming language)|C]] & GTK2, rewritten completely in [[Vala (programming language)|Vala]] & GTK3<ref>{{cite web

Very different browser.