People will still remember when they were able to get more OTA channels, because analog signals degrade when weak instead of being non-decodeable.

Where I used to live went from NBC,CBS,PBS and Fox to about 15 channels. 8 or 10 of them are channels that play old sitcoms all the time, but ABC and Create were nice additions.

(ABC rarely came in on analog and was added as a secondary channel on the NBC transmitter)

And here, we went from being able to get ABC from literally anywhere in the house without the antenna extended to having to get the position right when in a good location; we also lost plenty of other channels.

So basically urban areas get more channels because the new tech uses less spectrum and everywhere else gets less because they will no longer be able to listen to the channels physically located in urban areas that they could pick up using the old tech.

Does the new tech make bandwidth sufficiently cheap that more stations can broadcast their content on multiple frequencies in physically separate locations(which is not uncommon for large FM stations to do today)? If so you'd basically get the same coverage using less spectrum by broadcasting the same station from more sites using the newer tech (not that this would happen if the initial investment in the physical equipment is anything large enough to cars about).

My folks (living in the upper peninsula of MI) went from being able to pick up all the stations from Greenbay from across the lake to being able to pick up one random analog station out of Canada.

Everyone ended up on satellite to compensate. But it was really viewed as yet another Urban vs. Rural fight with Rural getting the short end of the stick again.

Correction, Mastodon has used ActivityPub instead of OStatus since version 1.6, only using OStatus to communicate with software such as GNU Social that doesn't support ActivityPub.

Ah, good to know, thanks. I knew it supported it, but Wikipedia made it sound like it was more secondary.

It's how Whitney's always done it:

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?

At very least there are some modernizations you could do for text legibility. Screens are bigger now, and today lines of text that run the entire width of the page are unnecessarily difficult to read. Similarly, with more screen real-estate you could pump up that font-size and line spacing a bit.

I'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible than any posts on here, with the choice of gray text for certain things.

Here's why I feel the lines should be shorter:

https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

And the font bigger:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/16-pixels-body-copy...

Now for smashing magazine to change their font colors to #000, for legibility's sake.

The line length is the main problem i would say.

It needs a max-width somewhere. This website was not designed for 25' screens.

I've just tweaked the page with:

    body {
	    width: auto;
	    margin: 2em auto;
	    max-width: 40em;
	    font-size: large;
	    line-height: 1.4;
	    background-color: #fffff8;
    }

    * {
	    line-height: 1.4;
    }

Consumer perception, mainly. It depends on the target audience of the page. Modern consumers have come to correlate certain appearances with quality. It's not an awesome cultural development, but you're not likely to gain much traction by fighting against that momentum unless you already have an oversized influence on that readership's expectations.

"a car you can put your kid into to drive them to school"

Also known as a schoolbus.

I prefer

    curl -s "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" |
	jq ".[0] .price_$1" | sed 's/\"//g'

for silent curl and no quotes in output. Unfortunately, this does add a third dependency to the script.

And the Roadster doesn't have real side skirts to seal up the tunnel, which significantly degrades any diffuser downforce.

Just pretend, the same way they do with the claims about the GTR's ~0-degree wing, and most all aero claims on street-legal cars.

Aero at street legal speeds is basically worthless and range-destroying. Many supercars don't have more aero than the Roadster, just go look at them, they usually either have no wing, like the Lambo Huracan, or a wing with virtually no angle of attack.

It's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org

The full npr.org provides transcripts for many or all of their stories. This site leads me to stories that only contain bylines and no other content. Seems like a bug to not include at least a link to the audio or the transcript.

Funny how the main site loaded much faster than this version for me. Wonder if it does reverse with a 2G connection.

Surprisingly long load times...

externalities are inherently costs/benefits, the only thing that's different is who is affected.

Amp doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of best practices, what is new is agglomerating even more online content under Google's control via caching. Lightweight page design never became impossible, it's simply that most websites couldn't care less about investing work into improvements.