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Software bloat (2026) (superspruce.org)
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I'm not sure if I'm allowed to promote my own (relevant) articles on here, please let me know. I have a series of blogs about my takes on technology and a work in progress series on how to get computers to count really fast.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I could easily get by with 400MB of RAM, 3GB of storage, and a Pentium III for web hosting, as long as I’m not getting more than… a *couple hundred requests per second

Actually, a electrical toothbrush is enough for that.

[–] nkochavi@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No way electrical toothbrushes have hundreds of megs of RAM. I thought that they were tiny embedded systems with an ATMega-tier CPU at most, if at all more than a switch, battery, and motor.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There was also one on Hackaday recently, that runs a website from a solar powered ESP32.

And yeah, hundreds of MB RAM is also news to me. Quite a bit overengineered.