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Pixar's Render Farm

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382 points brundolf | 2 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.495s | source
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hadrien01 ◴[02 Jan 21 20:11 UTC] No.25616026[source]▶
For those that can't stand Twitter's UI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html
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3gg ◴[02 Jan 21 21:33 UTC] No.25616748[source]▶
> JavaScript is not available. We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center.

So much for Pixar's render farm.

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1. buckminster ◴[02 Jan 21 22:04 UTC] No.25616993[source]▶
They changed this about a fortnight ago. Twitter worked without javascript previously.
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2. userbinator ◴[03 Jan 21 00:35 UTC] No.25618161[source]▶
A website needs to run arbitrary code on your machine and use a "supported" (i.e. approved and controlled by the megacorps) client, just to read short snippets of text.

That just about sums up the insanity of the "modern web".