[HN Gopher] Whose CIDR is it anyway?
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       Whose CIDR is it anyway?
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-06-13 01:31 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | butz wrote:
       | Pro-tip: If your webpage has a lot of images, it is very useful
       | to add loading="lazy" attribute to all of them. You'll save on
       | network traffic and users who do not read whole article won't
       | DDoS your server.
        
         | silverwind wrote:
         | It is a degradation of UX having to watch images load.
        
           | g15jv2dp wrote:
           | Indeed. Sometimes you have to make compromises. There can be
           | pros and cons for both possibilities.
        
           | autoexec wrote:
           | It also be used to track you by telling the site how far
           | you've scrolled (and presumably read) on a webpage
           | 
           | There are add-ons that remove lazy loading but in firefox you
           | can also try setting dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled to false
        
           | stevenicr wrote:
           | It is also a degradation of UX to wait 10 seconds for a long
           | page of images to load before you can read the first few
           | lines of text -
           | 
           | which most people won't wait, and then google punishes your
           | page, then no one finds it, then page load speed doesn't
           | matter I suppose when it's just you reloading your own page
           | to not watch images load.
        
         | dredmorbius wrote:
         | A prior generation of Web content had progressively-loaded
         | images: a low-resolution (and sometimes monochrome) initially,
         | followed by a higher-resolution image.
         | 
         | I'm not sure of the specific implementation(s) used, but
         | progressive JPEP (PJPEG) Is A Thing:
         | 
         | <https://imagekit.io/blog/progressive-jpeg/>
         | 
         | Lazy-load + progressive JPEG might be a further optimised
         | solution.
         | 
         | Then there's the Low-Tech Magazine approach to highly
         | optimised, low-bandwidth dithered images:
         | 
         | <https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-
         | website/#h...>
         | 
         | Dithering is to an extent a design decision, but given that
         | most images are _not_ actually informative but provide site
         | styling and branding, reduced quality on _most_ images isn 't a
         | bad trade-off. Where representational fidelity is required,
         | vector formats, line art, SVG, and the like may be more
         | appropriate.
        
       | mitchbob wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20240613025403/https://www.netme...
        
       | _tk_ wrote:
       | TIL SoftBank is also an ISP:
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group#SoftBank_Corp.
        
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