@chrisg In 2030, cloud costs make horoscopes seem reliable...they'll predict your financial future with the accuracy of a fortune teller reading tea leaves. ☁️💸

@chrisg@fosstodon.org in 2035 a breakaway movement to rescue human sanity uses a kind of FORTH directly on the machine to propel a browser that doesn’t understand html or JavaScript or css, but instead, only uses the ancient forgotten wisdom of WML from the early days of the Nokia 7110, and very little of it connects to the ‘normal’ internet at all, it’s an ox-bow-lake bypassed ‘other’ internet – nobody promotes it, nobody talks about it, it’s like fight blub, you don’t talk about it

@chrisg 2030? This just sounds like a Chromebook in a few months

@chrisg Windows XP is still used on boarding terminals at airports around the world.

@chrisg JavaScript has 1400 package managers

@chrisg Alllrightythen...

@chrisg honestly hard to tell the difference between a dystopic, utopic, and just plain speculative prediction sometimes. Well played.

@chrisg new ext version every two years??

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IDEs are just a web app now

@chrisg I use code-server locally and load it in Firefox so I get vscode without an electron instance. The future is now.

@chrisg@fosstodon.org This fills me with as much despair as climate change.

@chrisg Funny thing: I was working on a filesystem using AI* to guess where to put file on a heterogenic disk matrix in most efficient way for long term storage cost.

[as always - AI was a simple model that could be just a bunch of ifs and elifs instead, but wouldn't sound so fancy].

@chrisg much to realistic for my taste!

@chrisg Hello world webpages requires a 7 node, 160 CPU cluster running Kubernetes and a pile of 67kB of IASC yaml. The webpage weighs 1.2MB.

(IASC stands for Intrastructure as Shitty Code, everyone does this now)

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God preserve us 🤦

@chrisg that future is one I wouldn't want to even contemplate, and am trying to think, as much as possible given the evidence, that it and other such similar scenarios never come to pass. All this free software work, all the cultural shift, people slowly realising what's happening, it can't all be for nothing in the end, hopefully

@chrisg this is far too real

@chrisg congratulations on reinventing chromeOS

@chrisg ehhh no it's 2015 and it's exactly why Google released Chrome books. Computers with basic OS just to run Chrome browser.

@chrisg Oh please no! Nightmare fuel :)

@chrisg This sounds awfully dystopian!

@chrisg Haha, reminds me a bit of https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript (have you seen it?)

@chrisg btrfs is still in beta 😁

@chrisg @Lunaphied I see your dystopia and raise you a “ads have a 1% chance of popping up on every keystroke and only have a buy or remind me in 5 minutes option”

@chrisg won't going to happen, but too funny

@chrisg Okay, I laughed about the ext7 one :masto_lol: It's funny because it's really too far, it won't happen, right? :masto_sob:

@chrisg developers have to pay $1,000 a month to have their apps approved to run on "their" cloud computers

sideloading is a thing of the past, jailbreaking is a violation of ToS. every last processor instruction must be signed or it will be taken off the scheduler

@chrisg AAAAAAAAAAA

@chrisg Bcachefs still isn't merged in mainline and btrfs still doesn't have working raid5/6 support. Windows 18 is released, looking exactly like KDE Plasma today.

@chrisg somewhere before that we will see first desktop apps distributed as docker + docker containers, because electron made app sizes so irrelevant people stopped caring

@chrisg Correction: The year is 214. Last year was 214. Next year will be 214. Questioning this state of affairs gets you reassigned to reactor shielding duty.

("Repairing the reactor shielding? Doesn't sound so bad.")

@chrisg > Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.

😂

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TR;DL

@chrisg my husband thinks this isn't very funny.
He is wrong.

@chrisg that last correct branch prediction was part of a spectre attack.

@chrisg I know a language with a web browser IDE. It seems like its the only way to make Faust apps now.