Bloat refers to something wastefully and unnecessarily large. In software, it may refer to the presence of program code that is perceived as unnecessarily long, slow, or otherwise wasteful of resources, but a considerable amount of bloat originates from external dependencies.
Blob store design challenges
It's just hashed data, what's so complex about a blob store anyway?
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BitChat cache poisoning and replay in Bluetooth mesh
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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and outside of the U.S. and that much of the modern web isn't usable for people with slow internet, but the exponential increase in bandwidth (Nielsen suggests this is 50% per year for high-end connections) has outpaced web bloat for typical sites, making this less of a problem than it was in 2017, although it's still a serious problem for people with poor connections.
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Each time someone says "Bluesky" and means one specific thing—or all four things at once—the conceptual fog thickens.
Talking in a room with no name.
wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pubat this point for each day that goes i hate the atproto blob type more and more. like. not blobs themselves at all. but the damn data model representation of a blob reference. why does it have the mime type there ... arguably even the size. could technically even just be a plain CID link but cant
