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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 09:09:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   there HAS to be something wrong with my firefox install.
   I know Google has put a lot of time and money into making chrome fast but firefox can't be this far behind.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:03:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my network engineer roommate suggested it might be the secure DNS. Sure enough, firefox was configured to send all my DNS requests over HTTPS to Transphobia Central, so that was probably slowing it down a tad.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:17:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     That helped, I think? but it's still slow. There is probably something fucky going on with my network but since this is my laptop I don't have the tools to diagnose it further.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:20:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland nah. it's mostly slowness in loading new pages, and sometimes slowness in loading images on those pages

   • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:20:14 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @foone are you getting the thing where you press pause and it takes several seconds to respond?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:21:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     speedtests are fine, but my latency is ridiculous. like I'll click a link on a search and it'll take 5 seconds to start showing the new page

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:22:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     when I can I'll have to carry this thing up to an ethernet port and plug it in there.

     wait, fuck, this laptop doesn't even have ethernet! IT IS CLEARLY BROKEN

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:23:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     number of ports on laptops peaked in the early 2000s and it has been a slow downhill slide since then.

     I'm still waiting for Apple (and it will be Apple, mark my words) to release a laptop with zero ports.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:24:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's funny how Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" he talked about how if Apple made cars they'd have sealed hoods. He said that in 1998, before Apple started selling phones they literally glued together

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:28:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I google "there is no antimemetics division" and when the results are up, I click the goodreads link.
     NINE SECONDS LATER it shows up.
     I hit back, which should take me back to my cached search results, right?

     three seconds later, it shows up.

     Something is deeply fucked here. I have been on faster 56k connections.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:29:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but like, I downloaded some ISOs this morning, they finished in like 10-20 seconds

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:30:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so my throughput is fine, but something is wrong with page loading. I'm gonna try going to a fresh profile with no extensions and see if it vanishes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:34:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Okay yeah a fresh profile loads that page in about 0.5 to 1.5 seconds.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:35:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And I fully closed Firefox but task manager is showing 12 instances of firefox.exe.
     What the fuck?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:36:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Eh, this is windows, not a real OS. I should probably reboot just to be safe.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:41:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it has magically fixed itself.

     I GUESS!?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:41:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the problem with IT people is that the more they know, the less they think the ritualistic repair steps are needed, because they think they know how computers work.

     Wrong! Computers are and have always been black magic. If it doesn't work, turn it off and back on again, and see if that fixes it!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:51:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah I think Cl*udfl*re has something to do with this. Today and yesterday I've hit sites that do the "just a moment while we verify you're human" interstitial with the checkbox, but when I click it, it spins for 5 seconds, and then reloads the page to the same "verify you're human" page. I can do it repeatedly and get nowhere

   • dean (dean@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:59:11 JST dean

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     @foone there's a privacy setting I used to enable which cpu-renders canvas elements to prevent fingerprinting. it hurt my performance really hard, as well as being the primary thing that started tripping captchas for me. so could be related to hardware acceleration / privacy settings.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 11:59:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • dean

     @dean ugh. that one completely breaks my site and I have no idea how to fix it, detect it, or work around it.

   • Mathaetaes (mathaetaes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 12:15:53 JST Mathaetaes

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     @foone clearly you’re not human :-P

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 12:15:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mathaetaes

     @mathaetaes well that's well known. (insert therian symbol here)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 12:21:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • David Adam

     @zanchey yikes.

   • David Adam (zanchey@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 12:21:52 JST David Adam

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     @foone have you visited a WordPress site in, like, ever? because some invisible subframe/worker is sending my Firefox to swap+CPU death

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 16:30:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Snep@38C3 [☎️: 3032]

     @snep yeah, that was exactly it.

   • Snep@38C3 [☎️: 3032] (snep@y.diskcat.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 16:30:34 JST Snep@38C3 [☎️: 3032]

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     @foone You're not using a User Agent switcher, are you? I had one enabled accidentally a while ago and suddenly couldn't complete any captchas withbthe same fault pattern like you described, once all CF domains where whitelisted in that addon, it sudddnly worked again...