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That same day, a heated debate started on Twitter (as if that weren&rsquo;t the norm there). That&rsquo;s because the winner of this art contest used Midjourney, a popular AI image generator, to generate their entry.</description></item><item><title>My opinion on FOMO</title><link>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/fomo/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:21:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/fomo/</guid><description>What are you even talking about Let me preface this by saying I know nothing about psychology and behavioral studies, so anything you read here is just my personal opinion. Let&rsquo;s start with defining FOMO, to make sure we&rsquo;re all on the same spectrum. Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one&rsquo;s life better.</description></item><item><title>GGVG01 - Fran Bow</title><link>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/ggvg01/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:29:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/ggvg01/</guid><description>While I&rsquo;m a free software enthusiast, I love videogames as an art form (even if playing them involves messing with ugly DRM). That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;ve decided I will start talking (spoiler-free) about my favorite ones in my new series: the Geminaut&rsquo;s Guide to Video Games! -Context Fran Bow was developed by Killmonday Games, a Swedish indie studio composed of Natalia and Isak Martinsson. This game was suggested to me by my ex-girlfriend.</description></item><item><title>Data Volatility</title><link>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/data-volatility/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:31:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/data-volatility/</guid><description>I tried to access my domain at smol.pub yesterday and I noticed the service went down. Fear started rushing through my veins as I noticed I would have to choose another platform and, most importantly, write everything back from scratch since I don&rsquo;t have a backup. This made me think about the importance of always having a backup stored somewhere. +Context Fran Bow was developed by Killmonday Games, a Swedish indie studio composed of Natalia and Isak Martinsson. This game was suggested to me by my ex-girlfriend.</description></item><item><title>Data volatility</title><link>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/data-volatility/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:31:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://birabittoh.github.io/posts/data-volatility/</guid><description>I tried to access my domain at smol.pub yesterday and I noticed the service went down. Fear started rushing through my veins as I noticed I would have to choose another platform and, most importantly, write everything back from scratch since I don&rsquo;t have a backup. This made me think about the importance of always having a backup stored somewhere. 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Fear started rushing through my veins as I noticed I would have to choose another platform and, most importantly, write everything back from scratch since I don’t have a backup. This made me think about the importance of always having a backup stored somewhere.</p><h2 id=why-though>Why though</h2><p>Creating a backup of your important data is crucial. On a daily basis, people discover vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution on any host machine. Try to imagine what would happen if someone ran a ransomware program on your PC. Would you be safe?</p><p>This genuinely feels like fearmongery, but it’s something that can seriously happen: you can be attacked by someone that specifically targets you. If you run Windows, you might be part of a botnet (think about all of the unsigned EXE files you’ve run since you installed the OS). What happens when someone doesn’t need your machine anymore? Well, that person might try and squeeze some money from you by holding your files hostage.</p><h2 id=cloud-backups>Cloud backups</h2><p>Most people define cloud storage as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Cloud storage is a way for businesses and consumers to save data securely online so that it can be accessed anytime from any location and easily shared with those who are granted permission. Cloud storage also offers a way to back up data to facilitate recovery off-site.</p></blockquote><p>Source: <a href=https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cloud-storage.asp>Investopedia</a>.</p><p>In reality, cloud storage is no more than some dude’s computer.</p><p>As soon as you upload your personal data to any service, you’re trusting it to store it in a safe and private way. If that software is not open source, you’re basically asking to get spied on.</p><p>Most people do not care about that, that’s why cloud storage solutions are very popular and basically enabled by default on any device you might buy nowadays.</p><p>I personally use cloud storage but I would never actually upload anything I actually care about on it… +<script src=https://birabittoh.github.io/js/themetoggle.js></script></nav></header><main><article><div class=title><h1 class=title>Data volatility</h1><div class=meta>Posted on Jan 14, 2022</div></div><section class=body><p>I tried to access my domain at smol.pub yesterday and I noticed the service went down. Fear started rushing through my veins as I noticed I would have to choose another platform and, most importantly, write everything back from scratch since I don’t have a backup. This made me think about the importance of always having a backup stored somewhere.</p><h2 id=why-though>Why though</h2><p>Creating a backup of your important data is crucial. On a daily basis, people discover vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution on any host machine. Try to imagine what would happen if someone ran a ransomware program on your PC. Would you be safe?</p><p>This genuinely feels like fearmongery, but it’s something that can seriously happen: you can be attacked by someone that specifically targets you. If you run Windows, you might be part of a botnet (think about all of the unsigned EXE files you’ve run since you installed the OS). What happens when someone doesn’t need your machine anymore? Well, that person might try and squeeze some money from you by holding your files hostage.</p><h2 id=cloud-backups>Cloud backups</h2><p>Most people define cloud storage as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Cloud storage is a way for businesses and consumers to save data securely online so that it can be accessed anytime from any location and easily shared with those who are granted permission. Cloud storage also offers a way to back up data to facilitate recovery off-site.</p></blockquote><p>Source: <a href=https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cloud-storage.asp>Investopedia</a>.</p><p>In reality, cloud storage is no more than some dude’s computer.</p><p>As soon as you upload your personal data to any service, you’re trusting it to store it in a safe and private way. If that software is not open source, you’re basically asking to get spied on.</p><p>Most people do not care about that, that’s why cloud storage solutions are very popular and basically enabled by default on any device you might buy nowadays.</p><p>I personally use cloud storage but I would never actually upload anything I actually care about on it… If you have to choose, I have a few suggestions.</p><h3 id=dont-trust-non-encrypted-solutions>Don’t trust non-encrypted solutions</h3><p>Everybody has a Google account nowadays. If you forget your password, there is a way to recover it and get access to everything inside, including your Google Drive contents. As long as there is a password that can be changed or reset, your files are NOT encrypted and fully visible to anyone who has access to the Drive servers (Google or any other government agency that might want to take a peek). 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My first blog post; I suppose this officially makes be a boomer.</p><h2 id=inspiration>Inspiration</h2><p>Some time ago I stumbled upon a <a href=https://invidio.us/cvDyQUpaFf4>video</a>, where the popular Linux influencer <a href=https://lukesmith.xyz>Luke Smith</a> talked about the effort of looking up a Chicken Parmesan recipe in 2021 without having any adblock or privacy extensions enabled.</p><p>That’s because most modern websites take a lot of time to load framework files, ads and trackers. While that’s kinda functional, I think we should change our habits and start making simple websites again.</p><p>Yeah, this looks like a first world problem and it probably is, but it’s not as subtle as you think. I’m actually convinced that the internet could actually benefit from this way of thinking, and that’s what I’m going to talk about.</p><h2 id=the-problem>The problem</h2><p>In the early days of the internet, it was common for webpages to be written using only HTML, so we had very ugly but functional websites.</p><p>As technology went on, sites needed to get more modern-looking and interactive; that’s why CSS and JavaScript were introduced into the mix, allowing for dynamic websites that could actually change based on user input. +<script src=https://birabittoh.github.io/js/themetoggle.js></script></nav></header><main><article><div class=title><h1 class=title>Modern web bloat</h1><div class=meta>Posted on Apr 9, 2021</div></div><section class=body><p>This is it. My first blog post; I suppose this officially makes be a boomer.</p><h2 id=inspiration>Inspiration</h2><p>Some time ago I stumbled upon a <a href=https://invidio.us/cvDyQUpaFf4>video</a>, where the popular Linux influencer <a href=https://lukesmith.xyz>Luke Smith</a> talked about the effort of looking up a Chicken Parmesan recipe in 2021 without having any adblock or privacy extensions enabled.</p><p>That’s because most modern websites take a lot of time to load framework files, ads and trackers. While that’s kinda functional, I think we should change our habits and start making simple websites again.</p><p>Yeah, this looks like a first world problem and it probably is, but it’s not as subtle as you think. I’m actually convinced that the internet could actually benefit from this way of thinking, and that’s what I’m going to talk about.</p><h2 id=the-problem>The problem</h2><p>In the early days of the internet, it was common for webpages to be written using only HTML, so we had very ugly but functional websites.</p><p>As technology went on, sites needed to get more modern-looking and interactive; that’s why CSS and JavaScript were introduced into the mix, allowing for dynamic websites that could actually change based on user input. As of nowadays, a lot more stuff went into the mix, to the point where the browser is now the most common program we use in our OS: you can, in fact, use it for doing things that 15+ years ago required external programs, like:</p><ul><li>playing music and video,</li><li>reading PDF files,</li><li>doing office work,</li><li>checking e-mail,</li><li>cloud storage,</li><li>etc…</li></ul><p>I guess people just find it more comfortable if they can do everything with a single program, and they’re not to blame for that. This IS the easiest approach for unexperienced people: just have a program that does everything, instead of having to learn how to use a bunch of different software.</p><p>This plethora of uses is possible today because of the existence of various libraries and frameworks that simplify JavaScript and CSS and make them easier to develop complicated websites with. This is good for basic web users who just want functional websites, and great for developers since they can easily code advanced functions inside the browser, which makes them work in every OS.</p><p>Sadly, this brings us to the problem: any modern website has become a burden for any browser to load, since our browser needs to download and parse through each library and often fill the page content as you scroll through. In his video, Luke Smith found that a simple Chicken Parmesan recipe would take up to 5-10 megabytes, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but it actually is.</p><p>It’s easier to understand it if you think about it with video-games; any game on 16-bit consoles and earlier, including full-fledged 30+ hour adventures like Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, weighs less than one single recipe page (as stated <a href=https://blogs.umass.edu/Techbytes/2014/02/10/history-of-gaming-storage/#attachment_2827>here</a>).</p><h2 id=the-solution>The solution</h2><p>Well, I don’t think this “problem” is getting solved soon, as new frameworks for web development are constantly being introduced. Sadly, it’s a one-way train, but if you’re a web-dev you could actually make a difference yourself!</p><p>I mean, this can not apply to all websites. Some of them just NEED to be as responsive and interactive as they are; most of them actually just became bloated at a certain time period (probably mid-2000s) when having a flashy website was cool and different from what everyone else had.