"Mighty" is a startup that will sell you a subscription to stream your browser from a supercomputer instead of running it on your own PC. It is as r-slurred as it sounds.
The idea is that instead of making a browser with sane resource usage and forcing webdevs to learn to code they can allow the hellish cycle of Andy and Bill's law to continue for a few more decades while pocketing that sweet sweet subscription revenue. If that last sentence was gibberish to you click here.
Game developers, having one of the few jobs that require writing performant code, have always been jealous of webdevs for getting all the clout and money while churning out unusable garbage. Predictably, they start frothing with rage making tweets such as:
-Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involved in the Web and, sort of, software more generally.https://t.co/eR4G9Sg8iK
— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) April 27, 2021
-Running a browser to connect to the cloud to run a browser to connect to the cloud to retrieve the contents of a single 2D page to recompress and send back to the original browser is now "the future of computing". https://t.co/3DPs9tkQjF
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) April 27, 2021
a truly terrifying thing to read in a recruitment pitch pic.twitter.com/KHsLOjnC8k
— Gabe K (@gabe_k) February 9, 2021
This caused the startup founder, as well as investors, to get defensive. Culminating with the founder writing a poem about the haters:
Writing a song with someone for all the haters this past month. Sneak peek:
— Suhail (@Suhail) May 19, 2021
you always got something to say
I think you like the attention
helps you to not feel small
you’re watching, you sit and wait
every time that I get a mention
you wanna see me fall
More dunking:
-For the record, efficient 2D page display doesn't "appear simple" to me. It actually is simple, at least compared to other things we do. It only appears complicated to the web industry because it's the hardest graphics problem they've tried - and repeatedly failed - to solve. https://t.co/MrBfdV0Tie
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) April 27, 2021
… but this is the most compact explanation I have seen.https://t.co/rlF0rrUGTl
— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) September 2, 2022
The founder is still mad, passive aggressively replying with single emojis:
— Suhail (@Suhail) September 2, 2022-
— Suhail (@Suhail) September 2, 2022
If you actually care about this nerd stuff. Here's a talk:
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I hate
this so much its unreal. Holy shit 
webdevs are not human
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Right, aevann
isnt a human, hes a capybara 
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I HATE
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same
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!blackjack100
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What
an incredibly r-slurred 
idea. Thank you for posting.
Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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It's not r-slurred, it's just
implemented by r-slurs
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Explain how running a web browser
in the cloud 
isn't the most r-slurred 
thing imaginable.
Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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It's much cheaper to rent a 3080 for $100/yr than it is to buy a new 3080 for $1000 (and the rest
of the system) and sell it in 10 years for $50. Plus you don't need
https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-now-review
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This isn't cloud
computing, this is literally running chrome on someone else's computer 
and streaming video 
to yours.
Transform your Marseys!
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Its still cloud
computing if the outputs are video 
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What
kind of videos require a 3080 to watch? Even the tiny 
GPUs integrated on current laptop CPUs can handle 4k.
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You don't need a 3080 to play vidya
if you have nvidia now. That's the point.
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What
kind of videos require a 3080 to watch? Even the tiny 
GPUs integrated on current laptop CPUs can handle 4k.
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do you not understand that your local browser
still has to download all the data 
from your "cloud browser" and decompress them in order to display 
them?
Current pricing for an rtx 3080 in the cloud
is $0.30/h. That's $2700 per year 
at full 24/7 usage, $1000 per year 
at average 5 hours per day.
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Yeah
streaming video 
is ez pz compared to running a game. Even an iPad can do that.
Nvidia now isn't 2700/yr
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TIL 1000 is ~20% of 2700
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!blackjackmb1000
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that's because of synergy effects
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Oh god you're r-slurred
too.
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carp mark this as an effortpost pls thank you
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It requires it yes, that does not mean they actually
do it
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r-slur
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So can you explain to an r-slur
how that would actually 
help? I can sort of see it on mobile, but for actual computers?
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The pitch is that you won't need to buy a new computer
every time 
google developers manage to make 
chrome so shitty your old one can't run it anymore.
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I...
uhg 
AAAAAAAAAA
Kill all normie r-slurs
Just use (a fork
of) Firefox, just 
don't use Windows, just 
ANYTHING, there's so many 
ways to get more juice 
out of old hardware without being a moronic hype-whore
In KF lingo, yes I'm MATI
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Firefox won't save you when webdevs make the sites unusable. I have to use google Workspace for work and I want to kill myself everytime I have to open it because it's so fricking bloated.
Same for youtube, Invidious is faster for me even though it runs on shitty amateur hardware in some neets basements but by removing js it still comes out on top
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That's like...once every decade.
Who tf out there
running their Windows 
Vista machine 
still?
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here is an ad they made:
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I hate
people who have that many 
tabs open.
And there's nothing that says "Trust us with you money,
we're not a bunch of kinds trying to run a business!" like the use of memes and out of date internet 
humor.
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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What
an ignorant comment. Do you even know 
how a computer 
works? Having a lot of tabs open doesn't slow 
anything down. And memes and internet 
humor 
are just 
a way to connect with people. If you can't handle a little 
bit of fun, then 
you can't handle anything.
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I don't give
a frick 
about the performance issues that open tabs cause, it's an aesthetic thing. It just 
LOOKS wrong. But you're not capable of understanding that, and I sympathize.
Memes and emojii are great
for communication, yes, and we all love 
@Ed_ButteredToast, but I'd never 
invest 
in any business of theirs!
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The only aesthetic that matters is results, and your insistence on sacrificing performance for an arbitrary visual standard is foolish and short-sighted. If you can't see the value in efficiency, then
I pity your lack of vision. As for investing in businesses that favor style over 
substance, I have more faith in them than I do in you.
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I totally value efficiency over
aesthetics, but like you said having multiple tabs open doesn't effect efficiency.
And if you have money
to burn throwing 
it at our pasta connoisseur more power 
to you!
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Mighty
Stadia
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I actually
kinda like Stadia ngl. I would buy more games 
on it if it wasn't blatantly obvious 
I wouldn't be able to play them in 2 years.
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xbox cloud
> stadia
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I am but a humble prophet
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Blow
and Casey are always ready 
to dunk 
on JSON-r-slurs. Love 
them for it.
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No one is ever going
to use his stupid 
hipster programming 
language.
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Blow's? Ye. He's still right.
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I already use it instead of python. I would use it instead of c but I want cpp experience to get a job.
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you use jai?
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Yea
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i only know of it because i liked witness is it a real language people use
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It's still in closed beta but inshallah he releases it soon because it is actually good.
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That is the culmination of bussy-blasting someone, you have peaked as a troll
when you rectally ravage someone so hard 
they break out the iambic pentameter and seance the bard in a futile attempt to soothe their singed semen-stop.
You Will
Never 
Get a Bespoke Poem should be the reminder to all failtrolls as the post 
their shitty bait 
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The link got me so fricking
good. A+ post 
there 
sweaty 
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I was actually
going 
to leave that last link out before struggling for 5 minutes to get the block 
quoted tweets to display 
correctly.
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lol hasn't that already been a thing for phones for a decade with puffin
browser
at least that one made some sense when phones were slow
and shit 
I guess 
speaking of puffin
they also had the r-slurred 
idea of making a phone 
os that only runs web apps streamed on their cloud 
browser
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They killed off pufin lol. I used to have it on my ipad back when those things were glorified ereaders and for a while it worked way better than safari.
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i know
nothing about browsers but even i know 
this is giga brainlet 
take.
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the only reason anything on the internet takes more than a second to load is because of incompetent web developers that should unironically be dragged out into the street, charged for their brainlet tier code, and shot in the head point blank several times with a 12 gauge. words can not describe how moronic webdevs are. there shouldn't be a single webpage in the last 15 years that takes more than a blink of the eye to load on even shitty internet (content like images not withstanding), but because these genuinely brain dead
tier silicon valley shitlords think that putting 50 gigabytes of JSON and other webcel tier bloat in their shitty fricking website is a good idea you still have people struggling to load it on devices that should have zero issues with it.
Web devs are the lowest of the low r-slurs that you scrape off the side of a nearby sidewalk, expose to the sun for a little while, and teach to code. they're subhuman trash that should be shot outside of minecraft.
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see, i agree with you. browsers are plenty fast, it's just that the whole web platform was not built for the kind of websites we use nowadays and there are too many ways for a developer to frick up and make everything slow to down shit.
which btw validates the proposal of a cloud browser: "web devs are going to frick up, we run everything on a super computer and send you an optimized video stream"
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If your web page is so shitty I need a 35 dollar subscription to use it I will just go to a different website. Hardware won't keep letting webdevs get away for it for much longer.
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"They're morons, so let's give them a platform to make their r-sluration more acceptable instead of them realizing they can't act like morons when they hit the wall harder than your average white woman"
if that's validation then you're a heckin valid xueen
Every web developer should hang themselves, and the ones that don't should be shot. The entire thing should be torn down. Frick Javascript, frick Jquery, Frick JSON, frick the absolute morons that abuse and bloat their shitty websites
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Sorry you lack the self control to write clean code in a more permissive language, sweaty
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Where
is the lie tho? Just 
write where 
the stuff is on the screen 
every frame and you are done 
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I wonder
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If you can get funding with r-slurred
ideas like this i should just 
become a grifter
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Snapshots:
Andy and Bill's law:
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https://t.co/eR4G9Sg8iK:
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April 27, 2021:
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js:
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https://t.co/3DPs9tkQjF:
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April 27, 2021:
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pic.twitter.com/KHsLOjnC8k:
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February 9, 2021:
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May 19, 2021:
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https://t.co/MrBfdV0Tie:
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April 27, 2021:
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https://t.co/rlF0rrUGTl:
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September 2, 2022:
archive.org
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https://t.co/CIff407P9m:
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September 2, 2022:
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https://t.co/71KzqMcaOS:
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September 2, 2022:
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko:
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Contemporary gamedevs are still dogshit developers.
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I don't even know
what 
kind of r-slur 
you'd have to be to somehow have your browser 
be too slow. I've been using the web since 1995 and I only vaguely recall a few times around 20 years ago when this has happened to me.
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makes more sense if they sell it as a way to browse shady websites without getting compromised by chrome zerodays
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Good post, webdevs get the rope
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Why would I want some shitty startup to have my entire browsing history?
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I just
tried Mighty and wow rDrama 
loads fast. I would never 
pay $35/m for a browser. That fee is crazy 
high.
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nah this is the future
r-slur.
it's just
a saas version of a less complex VDI without having to set up an rds farm or citrix. SMBs are going 
to be all over 
this r-slurred 
shit 
and will 
feel like they're on the cutting 
edge of tech 
lol
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how to unmarseify
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none of those words
are in the bible
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I hope ed is tortured everyday in heck for creating shitrix
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Given this is just
streaming apps by another name 
(see Citrix and VMWare for why this isn't a bad business) the people opposing it are unironicly r-slurs.
Also the people who went in to gamedev did it themselves. Earn decent money
and then 
do your hobby out of work, you do actually 
get an out of work 
when there 
are but hundreds of people in line 
to take 
your place.
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