vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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"foot guns are nasty"?

"X need to just..." is a surefire way to never change anything. People will never just. They won't.

A UI can be measured in a bunch of different ways, most of which should be measured and balanced against each other.

I recommend this video essay, where a UX professional (formerly at Microsoft) took over the UX for the FOSS music composing app Musescore and shares a lot of the lessons learned along the way: https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ

Lol, I saw "drop federation" and thought you meant the concept itself, not just the word. "Well that doesn't make any sense" I thought. Got it now.

I wonder if this research is done but not picked up by media.

I'm honestly not sure. I have the means to check but not the time-energy, unfortunately.

I don't know the guy in question, but the more likely conservative mindset is "why bother educating the unwashed masses? It's a waste of resources when we could instead keep them ignorant, under our thumbs, and working in our factories for next to nothing. We'll just make sure that education is available for people who can pay for it (us)."

The worst advisors. Truly the worst advisors anyone has ever had, the worst in history! They say my advisors are pretty good, but they lie. My advisors SUCK.

Sorry. I'm tired and doing an off kilter Trump impression just seemed like the thing to do in the moment.

So I follow your logic... but fuck me if that doesn't just sound like post hoc justification for invading your next door neighbor in an ultra nationalistic way.

I am straight, but my social media habits put me into a lot of contact with memes from gay, lesbian, pan, and everything else under the sun. A lot of it seems relatable, even if I never experience those same feelings IRL with real people. Definitely makes me question my sexuality semi regularly, lol.

I don't think their comment was about shaming individuals, but rather pointing out that there are individual level factors that economists don't take into account when measuring economic health.

Never said anything about America. Maybe you've confused me for another comment?

Bro. Your issue is with police. Not with leftists.

We take our Ws where we can get em.

Twitter being economically unviable is still pretty good news.

Krita isn't that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn't know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.

Iirc, when the ADL put out their guidance on Pepe, it was during the 2016 election when Pepe was being actively coopted by alt-rightera and neo Nazis. One of those "take something innocuous and poison it by using it as a pseudo secret signal to other bigots.

I vaguely recall them saying that Pepe was a hate symbol only insofar as it was being used for that purpose. I wonder if that changed, or if this investigation is ignoring that nuance to hamfist a "hate speech" argument.

Echo chambers are not dependent on having an algorithmic feed. It just matters that the people you talk with and the information you consume, etc, filter out dissenting opinions from what you hold.

Lemmy is still very much an echo chamber simply by virtue of the people who tend to be here. But we can balance that with time spent on other platforms, IRL relationships, etc.

This doesn't really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.

He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he's a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.

If it helps, you can dig into Androids settings and use Firefox for the default in-app browser for most apps. That's what I did, anyway, and it's been fantastic.

Well then. I'm unsure what news article I read that spurred me to try Firefox on mobile, but that's my recollection of the order of events.

Huh. I was under the impression that proper extension support (eg ublock origin) only came about recently?