Microsoft is really leaning into vaporwave these days. Microsoft is giving away knit Windows sweaters to social media influencers. Is it for an ugly sweater contest? Maybe, or maybe Microsoft is capitalizing on the mid-90s ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ. Recently, Apple got back in their 90s logo game with the release of a few ‘rainbow Apple’ t-shirts. The spirit of the 90s lives on in tech culture.
Have a Hackerspace? Frack is organizing the great Inter-hackerspaces Xmas goodies swap! Since your hackerspace is filled with weird ephemera and random crap, why not box it up and send it out to another hackerspace? You’ll probably get another random box of crap in return!
Just an observation looking for commentary, but is Thingiverse slow these days? It seems really, really, really slow these days.
The Blockchain makes it to the Apple II! By far, the most interesting thing in tech right now is the blockchain, with AI, at the edge. This will get your Merkle trees tinglin’ with some AI, and 5G is where it’s at. We’re back with cylinder computing this time, and this is the greatest achievement that will synthesize brand new paradigms. Of course, if it weren’t for millennials, we’d have it already.
There’s a new portable console out there, and it’s at the top of everyone’s Christmas lists. The SouljaGame Handheld is a rebrand of what’s available on AliExpress. What makes this one different? It has Soulja Boy’s name on it. If you couldn’t get your hands on the SouljaGame Handheld, don’t worry: Post Malone Crocs are available on eBay for about $300.
+1, Thingiverse is pretty slow for me as well. Good alternatives?
Youmagine is my favourite
“Just an observation looking for commentary, but is Thingiverse slow these days? It seems really, really, really slow these days.”
56K slow? Geocities slow?
Can confirm that Thingiverse has been exceptionally slow for some time now, site responsiveness and downloads remind me of my DSL days.
Thingiverse must have seen this article and fixed it. I just checked and it seems responsive to me.
Front page is fast for me but anything beyond that (e.g. the items on the ‘recent activities’ feed) is slow to load.
They’re pretty hosed. Anyone know why?
(I secretly hope it’s those load-as-you-go pages that can’t ever keep up with my scrolling finger.)
Makes one pine for the days of websites and catalogs on CD-ROM.*
*HaD on Blu-ray.
At least Thingiverse updates the URL with page count so I don’t lose my spot.
Yes, Thingiverse has been extremely slow for a few days. Click on anything and have a few sips of coffee slow.
I loaded up thingiverse and took a look at the network waterfall plot in the Firefox developer console, and all I can really see is their CDN looks a little stressed. Every couple of page loads, even 16kB jpegs take ~500ms to load from their CDN. Serving uncompressed 8mB!! gifs from their homepage probably isn’t helping with that.
uptime is uptime, it’s all about the optics.