On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.
At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.
Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.
I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).
I don't want to see a main feed full of replies I don't understand because there's no context and have to decide whether it's worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it's about.
I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.
Maybe it's cuz I'm new and all the content is new. Once I'm in, perhaps I'll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I've read the OP.
Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don't know the correct technical terms to describe this. "Show OP with replies below directly in timeline"? Or "feed"? Or "home page"? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.
I'm kind of amazed they released a system that shows replies but not necessarily the OP! But presumably there's all kinds of technical reasons over my head.
I've installed Subsitoot and am browsing regular Mastodon (not phanpy) with it... and I can't tell yet if it's making a difference. I'm still thrown by the bass-ackwards layout.
OK, I think I get what I have to do now to see the OP of seemingly orphaned replies, and also to see all replies to an OP, below the OP.
Click on a reply (just any random area of the reply text, not on a specific button, took me a while to work that out)
Scroll up (again, took me a few goes to work that out, as it often places that reply at the top of the screen)
Click on the top post (again, random area, not a specific button)
That finally shows me both the OP, at top, and all replies, below.
So, a bit of a palaver but doable. Thanks! Hopefully, future versions of Mastodon will make getting posts and displaying them properly grouped in the main timeline easier.
But then: "Wait... it's still not showing me the OP followed by replies." It shows me a reply, with some faded text above. I click on the faded text above, and still don't get the OP, eventually click on a group of microavatars with mouseover text "Go to top" and an up arrow, and at last see what the hell it is people are talking about, with replies below. I try going through settings, find no way to get it simply show me the OP in the first place.
I guess I'll have to keep trying out front-ends until I find one that works in a way that is not obviously maddening the way I need it to.
Disclosure: I've tried it out on my computer, not the app. Is the app more user-friendly?
E.g. I only just realized now why I've been so confused by Mastodon; the web page shows you replies before showing you what's being replied to, without the UI making it obvious that's what it's doing and what's connected together. Does the app fix that, and is there a way to get a fix in a web browser?
He was probably imagining his voice being used in official media like more movies, not anyone loading up a free-to-play game and making it seem like he's saying all kinds of crazy shit.
But it seems the SAG-AFTRA lawsuit is about a different issue, defending the jobs of their members who do/could do the work of Darth Vader's voice since JEJ's death.
“However, we must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members, including those who previously did the work of matching Darth Vader’s iconic rhythm and tone in video games,” the release continues. “Fortnite’s signatory company, Llama Productions, chose to replace the work of human performers with A.I. technology. Unfortunately, they did so without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms. As such, we have filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB against Llama Productions.”
I saw it uses a flowchart approach (e.g. serifs or no serifs), which seems like a good alternative to the OCR approach but also had me thinking I might have to go through a lot of questions (some which I might not know how to answer) before getting a result.
But as soon as I did step 1 (serifs), the "Popular Matches" sidebar showed Cooper Black second from top! :)
It is the single best demonstration of the damage cocaine does to people. Before there was "this is your brain on drugs", there was the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Watch it with your children so that they think "Holy crap, if this is what people come up with on coke, I never want to even try the stuff!"
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Stop using AI to replace humans who can do the job!
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