Brewchin @ Brewchin @lemmy.world

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Safety and convenience versus the cost of including them, I expect.

The Wikipedia page for BS 1363 says they're optional and weren't added to the standard until 1967. I can't recall having seen a domestic socket without one.

But it seems the only legal way to read the actual standard is to pay for it, and even the HSE website isn't much help.

lol... no. There's a difference between Approximate and Precise location information: 3 sq.km vs 3m. Think suburb vs room.

With location services enabled, you're providing the latter.

It's a pretty common and wildly successful marketing strategy to put something on social media with one or more intentional errors to force everyone's inner Reply Guy to fight the urge to do the thing.

But it also works with unintentional errors. My less well-thought-out replies attract responses like flies. 😄

Whether it indicates the success of your thesis or not depends on how you measure it, I suppose.

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is a valid strategy.

they'd surely stop stealing everybody's water for bottling. If it isn't profitable, they wouldn't do it.

I don't think they would. It's far more likely that they'd "work with" governments to make boycotting their product illegal.

One example: anti-BDS laws regarding Israeli goods, especially in the US.

This is social media, not a magic 8-ball simulator. 😄

With zero context of you and your circumstances, you're only going to get responses equal in value to rolling a die or flipping a coin.

Google wants everyone to have location services permanently enabled, gotcha.

Christ, this image is like a 50-post long thread on Mastodon, etc: the worst possible choice of format/platform for that type of content.

"I have an essay to share, and I'm going to send it in snippets of a few hundred characters!" Why?

(Looking at you, Doctorow... 👀)

To add to this, for those of you in roles that deal with email, think of every time you've dealt with a vendor or partner who've told you to "just whitelist *@

<our-domain>

The correct, considered and professional answer is, of course, "Fuck off and die." Without exception, equivocation or apology.

This site is one such example, but at a B2C rather than B2B level.

Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness... 🍿

I think you've misunderstood few things in my reply. I'll clarify...

First, I meant the person with multiple IM clients will be the one who "doesn't see the problem" with WhatsApp (or whatever). The person moving to Signal just has Signal.

Second, I wasn't saying you used a fallacy. I was pointing out that when someone thinks of using (or are recommended to use) another IM client, they almost always think they have to uninstall what they're currently using. (It is more accurate to call it a false dichotomy.) It's a mystery to me why people think this way about IM clients, as many of us have multiple browsers installed, for example.

Third, my reply was about those you communicate with online, not you. Nothing in my reply was directed at you. 😊

This is pretty close to how I did it.

The "one or the other" thing is a fallacy. You have just one, but they're clearly happy installing stuff like WA - so tell them to install another app. It's not like they have to switch.

If they subsequently come to realise the value of Signal in time, all the better.

Possibly, on both counts. I know the Guardian and BBC News style guides use that convention.

Yet there's this regarding the AP Style Guide:

https://grammarmill.com/ap-style-rule-for-acronyms/

It mentions odd rules like "if an acronym is longer than 5 characters" and such.

Either way, my money's on an internal style guide that Microsoft (in OP's example) requires its staff to use.

Me too.

People learn from reading that kind of thing. Aside from it being unnecessary and confusing, there's going to be a percentage of people who'll think "Ascii" (or whatever) is a name rather than an abbreviation.

They probably have a style guide, as most media outlets do, that says pronounceable acronyms/initialisms are to be written like a name and the rest as everyone expects.

So you get Ascii, Unix and Nasa alongside IBM and PCMCIA.

The core of what you're saying has been my approach for many years. Never go "all in" on anything.

Convenience is one thing (to me, but it's everything to so many), but it's just one factor. And if it means I am (or my data is) the product, it costs too much.

Isn't free market economics essentially about stripping government restrictions and regulations, specifically enabling this kind of commercial foul play by removing the legal tools to prevent it?

Basically the opposite of how everyone expects it to work.

Could this be due to the post visibility setting of your post, your account, or the server you're on? Or perhaps a synchronisation delay. I ask because...

Browsing that link in Firefox on Android shows me a preview?

When I view your profile with my Pixelfed account (using Moshidon on Android) shows no posts?

They claim their support is 24/7 but live chat / phone is just business hours

It's increasingly common for "24x7 support" to mean access to their KB/FAQ and the ability to raise a ticket, while the actual support is a skeleton crew working regular hours.

Not unlike "your call is very important to us..." 😅