deathwarmedover

I wondered initially if this was a winamp port for older macs.

It requires macOS 13.0 (High Sierra, 2017) or later, which is several releases after it stopped being called OS X. 10.11 (El Capitan, 2015) was the last OS X.

Not that I doubt the value of the work, and the reasoning of its performance directly affecting common operations makes intuitive sense, but I would have liked to hear more about what concrete problems were being solved. Was there any interesting data across the V8 ecosystem about `JSON.stringify` dominating runtimes?

You could check if it made it into archive.org?

I had also seen criticism of it here: https://screenfont.ca/learn/

I notice the author is using the wallpaper from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), released in April 2008.

When the author started with "this is not fool-proof by any means" the first thing that came to my mind was linguistic fingerprinting.

Reminds me of how I was sad when the bridge for Shoreditch Overground station blocked the Tea Building, but that was before the first Street View image it seems: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5231608,-0.0776078,3a,75y,...

The title is perhaps missing "... for spoken and/or non-English sources, preferably not at all".

If we should stop using this test, what should we start using? In the author's comment on the study, they noted "There are ways to study linguistic complexity".

I'm aware, for example, of this python project which provides F-K scores along with 7 other readability metrics to consider: https://pypi.org/project/py-readability-metrics/

You can do a timed disable (like a pause) from the Pi-hole UI: I've done 5-minute disables to eg. get through purchase check-out flows with tight coupling to trackers.

>Wikipedia articles [...] are all written like advertisements.

Editors do actively work against this. I've seen this template in the wild often enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertising