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@david Ideally it should just search the Internet and give you what best matches your imput, no matter whatever that might be.
It is a tool similar to a map, made to do just that, rather than prioritize sites based on revenue, government input, domains, metadata or other opinions of the company running it.
Turning it into some editorialised nonsense has far worse consequences, like the abuse of these filters by the governments, in counties like China. Even putting that aside, do you really want these giant companies to have the authority to decide which opinions are right and which are wrong, when even during this pandemic, these giant companies were often labeling things as conspiracies and than walking it back once studies confirmed it?
In the very beginning, when videos of people dying from the virus were spreading from China a lot of these companies were even labeling this as misinformation.
I'm aware of the more dangerous conspiracies, like sites telling people to drink bleach to be cured (some even making money selling said bleach) or many other sites, giving similar bad advice, but even those should be dealt with in other ways, than through manipulating the search engine results.
@david It should not be up to the search engines to actively police its results and judge the content of the sites it finds subjectively. DuckDuckGo just buys those results from Bing anyway, so a lot of the times the quality of those results really is far from what I'm looking for, but for an entirely different reason.
@prologic Don't know if I would be of much help with that kind of a thing, but the idea is definitely worth a try.
I still kinda like this app, but it has a lot of problems and it's a bit of a mess, so starting from scratch would definitely have its benefits.
@prologic @david What also helped it rank so high in those charts, is the fact the iOS app is so far the only working frontend for it, so unlike any other social media, using a browser to access it, isn't even a possibility yet.
@movq @lyse @david I managed to get in the tram a few stations ahead and ride inside of it for a while, exactly at 22:22 we got into one of the stops and started celebrating.
I guess at that point someone might have broken one of the doors or the poor tram was just so crowded, that it had to be stopped and couldn't be driven any further, creating a long line from the trams following it.
Sadly none of the photos I managed to get were any good, as it was just too crowded inside of the tram, while it was still moving.
@david I'll try, but trams usually only have their number written on the outside and sometimes don't even have a clock, so it'll be hard to prove it either way. π€
Since the date today is 22.2.2022, I'm hoping to get in the tram number 22 at 22:22 to complete the 22 challenge. π
@david I thought it was looking kind NFT-esk, but didn't think you'd be the type of person to buy one, since we're always talking shit about them here - unless it's a joke and you got it the right (click) way. π
_still wondering where @david got that profile pic_
@david The original plan was to join as everyones favorite American hero Jeb Bush and try to either shit-post him into the White House for 2024 or get banned from the site doing so. π
I wanted to do it day one, so I could grab some really good username for it, like "@potus47", which would make it even funnier. Sadly since the site is too bad to even get in, this political redemption for Jeb might be doomed from the start.
Looking into Truth Social - Day1:
- It's heavily Mastodon + Soapbox based - still an understatement.
- It seems to have some weird side-wide reputation system, to ensure maximum echo chamber - might not apply to checkmarks.
- Graphic design of the main page doesn't seem to be Donnies passion - especially not when it comes to phone layouts.
- Registration is very confusing and seems to be working only through the iOS app, if one is "lucky" enough to get through the never ending queue and smart enough to register via an email, as phone registrations allegedly don't even work.
- Many people can only access the site by using a VPN, as the anti-raid system is way too sensitive and often throws out users just trying to view the site normally.
Conclusion : Everything about the site is such a mess, that I couldn't even be bothered to get an alt there, to troll the 5 people, who managed to somehow get in, despite all these problems.
@david Can't tell you much of the top of my head, but as I said, it was indeed mostly the small ones, that try to maintain their own browser/layout engine (like NetSurf), or have it forked from some old version of Gecko - like Pale Moon, Basilisk and K-Meleon - all Goanna based browsers (the last one might have never supported Mac to begin with).
@prologic I'm no Mac expert, as you can probably tell, but I'm somewhat familiar with the browser development scene and know that quite a few browsers dropped their Mac support in 2021, because they didn't have the resources (or much of a reason) to port their browsers to M1. Not helping was the fact that development for Macs is hard for those working on non-Apple devices, so browser developers had to rely on Mac-owning volunteers willing to help. The number of those volunteers was also shrinking, since most Mac users just use one of the mainstream browsers these days, even more than those on other platforms - probably thanks to the AppStore.
@david I don't remember ever hearing about that. They always had all their music licensed, so I doubt they'd have any reason to do this kid of stuff for copyright reasons.
However the older versions of their apps used to be a complete mess (some still are), so some users running the Windows version of the app around 2020 - 2021 were experiencing spontaneous changes in playback speed, which could have been how this rumor got started. π€
Source: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Spontaneous-change-in-playback-speed/td-p/5044052
@david Not even I ever thought they were a perfect company, but it was the first and good enough. They used to have everything one needed audio-wise, all for free or a single subscription, if you wanted it ad-free.
I also knew someone working there (now they have a different job) and I got somewhat familiar with the API, which at the time was one of the best APIs for music apps out there.
It is also social networky enough to where if you want to see what your friends are listening to or listen to something together, this is usually the best platform for that and if you wanted to do it on Discord without bots, it's also the only one.
@adi I don't really like chihuahuas much, but I'll take it as a compliment, as it makes me and @eaplmx match even nore and he's looking pretty cool with those glasses. π
I'm even more mad at Spotify now. I thought they stood by Joe Rogan, because they cared about some level of "freedom of speech" in podcasting. Than they go and ban the more "controversial" podcasts, that are not Spotify exclusive like "Mad at the Internet", that most other big podcast platforms (including Apple and Google) allow.
I guess Spotify only cares about partnered podcasts and if you want something that's smaller, more local or a live radio station, you have to get a different app anyway.
Even if they still have the podcast you want, sometimes it doesn't even play right (stops/crashes randomly) and instead of fixing the player, they rather focus on the development of stupid technologies, that push the sponsors in big podcasts even more in your face or other gimmicks nobody cares about.
@lyse No. It's still the usual doggo, just drawn in an unusual way. π
@prologic Not just you. You're probably the first one to notice it, but now I can see it too. π
Trying this weird artstyle now. People elsewhere are already calling it confusing, so feedback appreciated - I guess. π
@prologic Maybe. He's definitely not having a good time lately, fighting both Apple and EU to keep his ad scheme running, Facebook bleeding users, stocks going to shit and most normal people not finding the idea of being stuck in the dystopian NFT-filled virtual reality that is the Metaverse all that appealing.
Yet that's the future he already bet a lot of his company money and resources on, so he's unwilling to back down without a fight, with increasingly desperate tactics, like renaming the company, it's employees and who knows what else.
@prologic @adi Not only that, but it's not even a good proof of ownership for these digital goods, when anyone can just take them and mint their own NFTs for it.
Whene you buy an NFT, you can't be sure if you're buying things from the people who made them or habe any right to re-sell them. It cdan always be someone, who just right-clicked it somewhere else, to make free money from the work of others.
There are even bots made specifically for scraping art pages, to copy and NFT-fy everything on there, enriching only those running them.
@adi Which one?
The Hypnospace font was recreated by Senpaifurret based on tweets by Foone: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1106095130816073728
and I found it on here: https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1811689/hypnospace-outlaw
Since it is so heavily inspired by the game, it's hard to give it a license, but those recreating it and the site list it as licensed under Creative Commons.
The more universal font is by Craig Kroeger, who has all his work and fonts at: http://www.miniml.com/ and there is a custom license the fonts are under: http://www.miniml.com/fonts/license/index.html , so that's also the license that applies to my fixed version of it, except for the "no fixing" part of the license, that excludes me, as I've asked for permission.
He also made many other great minimalist fonts, that you can check out on the site. Some are free and some can be purchased for $10 per font, though the paid ones only have Latin support, making them less universal the the free fonts with Latin, Central European and Cyrillic support.
@adi I should probably look into that at some point. I've already seen the pixelated theme on nfld.uk. It's pretty nice and reminds me of my website at flist.glitch.me.
The font on my "Flist site" isn't mine, it's from a game called Hypnospace Outlaw. It's a nice font, but it has it's flaws, especially if you're not typing in English or need less common characters.
I have another, even more pixelated font for those scenarios. It was originally missing one letter used in my language, so I asked the author for permission to add it. He agreed and after one or two unsuccessful attempt, I managed to get it right as well as make sure that all letters from other languages (including Russian) are also there and working. Sadly I never really found much use for the font afterwards, but I really like it and it'd be amazing seeing it used somewhere. I just uploaded it to @prologic s thing, so anyone reading this can try it out at: https://files.mills.io/download/uni05_53.zip
@adi I care, but still have to use it, to talk to those, who refuse to move. If it stopped being available, they'd have to find an alternative and there are not many alternatives worse than Facebook.
To be fair, I don't think it'll actually happen either. They're probably just using it as a tactic, to push against regulations they don't like.
Looks like Twitter no longer lets you see peoples old tweets without having an account there. Are they really that desperate for new users? π
@prologic IT (Informatics),the same as most people here - I assume. π€
@david Thank you. I'm sure everyone in my family must have it the same way - also being effected by my stress.
@prologic This was the end of my fifth semester, so it'd normally mean only one more left to go.
Sadly things aren't going all that well for me and there was one exam I wasn't able to pass and will have to try again later this year. Worse still, the accounting (a side subject I have no use for) professor didn't even let me attempt the exam, forcing me to re-take the subject again next year. On top of that stuff, I still have a lot of writing to do, before I can go do the bachelor degree exams and we're expected to find a job/internship during the sixth semester, which is something I'm trying to do anyway - but now there's a lot more pressure.
So despite the fact the exams are over for now, I still can't help it, but feel some level of stress. Stress and anger, because I'm expected to be there at 7 in the morning, on even Thursdays, which means getting up at five, further destroying my already unhealthy sleep schedule. π
@lyse Now when you mentioned it, I can kinda see it, like that, too. π
Some silly retro anime thing, to fight the art block with. No-one here knows me long enough to remember the meme profile pics where I had a pink wig, so it's definitely a first for you guys. π
With the exams finally over, for better or worse. I'm feeling completely burnt-out, but I'm trying to fight that and the art block, to bring back some of the stuff that made people follow me. π€
@david I guess that's a good thing, though I don't use SMS and even when I have to, I can't imagine myself ever using such a feature. I had no idea group SMS chats was even a thing that existed. π
@prologic @david The UI wouldn't be much of a problem for me, ugly UI is what Mozilla is for, along with shilling HTTPS over DNS garbage, no one asked for.
Though there seem to be forks like WaterFox, that don't have any of these problems and might be worth a try.
As for Safari, it used to lack support for a lot of things and even if it no longer lacks that, it still lacks the support for my favorite video codec AV1, it doesn't even support video OGG and support of Googles video codecs were only added recently to desktop Safari and is still lacking from the iOS version.
One has to wonder, if Apple does it because of their incompetence, or because they own some patents in the patent pools of the inferior h.264 and h.265 codecs.
@prologic No one does, but in the case if politics, it's always been the strategy to blame your shortcomings on something and this has made it easier than ever.
What I've heard and wouldn't find hard to believe, is that the algorithm and platform in general is over-designed to appeal to as many people as possible, so in case of politics, it's letting the leftoids report the right, than rightoids get removed, making leftoids feel like Twitter is on their side.
Then it lets the rightoids ban-evade, so they can feel like they're fighting the system and can live out their pretend revolution fantasies.
@lyse I don't know about that. I think there's still a lot of good keyboard out there to buy these days.
Mechanical keyboards have gotten popular again, meaning there's a lot of them to choose from and some seem pretty well built. Even some of the modern rubber dome ones feel nice, if you pay a bit extra and get a good one.
@prologic Or gather the Australians here, quit your tech jobs and start a trucking group. That seems to be the only way one can fight for changes in 2022. π
Are there and bots for keeping dependencies up to date and are able to run on Gitea? π€
I've seen something like that on GitHub and it made me wonder if some of the problems in the phone app like the small typing issues on both Android and iOS couldn't be caused by something being a bit out of date. π€
Sorry if this idea is stupid, it's one of those "throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks" kind of a suggestions. π₯΄
@prologic @david I don't know much about him and find it hard to describe him, though he seems to match the "weird weed-bro uncle stereotype", hangs out with Elon and some of the other crypto shill, "relatable" popular rich and guess some of these "medical weirdos" as well.
I only saw a few funny moments, that people showed me, but even then he's never too consistent with his views, like when after rightfully bashing modern art for being lazy in one episode, he dedicates the next few to shilling NFTs - which are usually even lazier.
I'm also not defending Spotifys financial decisions and since they sponsored The Emoji movie, it became clear to me, that they have no idea how to spend money and that peoples decision to crack their app is justified.
I still think it's really stupid to try to cancel him or his podcast. Podcasts were always about giving everyone a voice and the mentality of "I don't like this, so I'm taking my shit and going elsewhere" is not helping to seal the division online. On the other hand, this was most likely not the cause, but the straw, that broke the backs of those artists that Spotify always pays as little money as possible, while striking million dollar deals with these podcasts, not many even wanted on this music oriented platform to begin with.
@david Ok mister phone addict. I sometimes go to university or visiting other places for a day or two entirely without it, when I just don't feel like bringing it with me.
I've also made it a bit of a tradition to just randomly go two weeks entirely without using it during summer. It was originally a summer camp thing, but I did it once or twice even as an adult. It's also a good test to separate the communities,where people really appreciate you for who you are and those who do shit behind your back, when you're gone for a couple days. π
@david I guess it's at least something. We had apps for those things for a long time here (not good apps, but still).
I think it's not a step in the right direction, as the phone battery can run out, you can forget it at home or just not take it with you, when you go out for a walk or running. Why not just have one card you can put all this shit on, especially in countries like mine, where you're required to always carry the ID card with you anyway.
Work reform is definitely something that should be taken seriously, unlike this movement that can't even decide what it stands for and is infested by Reddit Commies or believers of similar broken philosophies, with pointless degrees.
For now I'll hold back on adding more, despite it being hard not to bite the low hanging fruit. I'd also suggest finding better ways of fighting for these reforms, ideally something people can actually take seriously. π
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, it's your favorite canine host, back with another episode of "Art or Non-art"! In this episode we have a book, that's just fucking phone app icons printed on paper and sold for β¬60, with like two pages of text on icon design.
Site: https://www.appiconbook.com/
Is it art, or is it not?
@prologic @david I'm not the guy making these kinds of decisions, but I was able to speak to two people who were in those positions last year (the positions to help decide what will be used in their institution).
Person A was from my university and told me Microsoft provided Teams for no additional cost, as they are part of Microsofts 365 plan that the university chose, but also said that the plan as a whole is insanely expensive compared to what others charge for similar services, so if the decision was only on him, he would have made a different decision.
Person B works for a private company and his story was similar. Because of Microsofts high prices their company went with Zoho, as their alternative to Microsoft 365, which also includes some alternative to Teams in their plan, however it was not good enough to cover all their needs, so they bought some Zoom licenses on top of that, which they said was the cheapest conferencing program that met the needs the company had and the price of the two combined still wasn't even close to what they'd have to pay for Microsofts services.
Both people and a few others also pointed out that Google was also offering very cheap alternatives and some of their conferencing options were even free, if the conferences didn't exceed some time and the limit of 100 participants.
All these people agreed, that Microsofts services were the most expensive, though I assume kinda "necessary" for some, as they include many other useful tools, like the license for downloadable Office apps for everyone, email solutions and the option to archive important conferences and share them (internally) through Microsoft Streams.
@prologic I bet those numbers are a combination of users forced to use it (like myself) and people accidentally clicking on the new Teams thing that comes pre-installed in Windows 11 and pre-pinned to the task bar, in a way that's not that easy to get rid of.
I've definitely never seen anyone using it out of their own free will. π
@david I was not saying it's less art-like because it's shocking. I just thought that as interesting as it is, it's not something someone painted or sculpted, but rather an interesting exposition with a robotic arm, that the artist probably got made from someone else and just found an interesting use for.
I should probably be a bit less judgemental, when it comes to other peoples art (which I'm still not as judgemental towards as anything I make), but than there are pieces I'll most likely never recognize as art. This category includes the random lines of paint, sold at some galleries to launder money, or the flat corporate design, made so generic it no longer evokes any emotions.
Even outside of that, if ones art is only bought in hopes, that it'll eventually be sold for more, rather than out of the desire to own it and find enjoyment from owning it alone, it'll also make me very skeptical about its value and "art status".
Miracles finally happening, can't even believe it myself. π
@david now I'm following the new account, so time to test if I'll be able to mention it from the app. π
@david @lyse @eaplmx While it's not exactly "art", at least it's a cool robotic arm (for 2016) and it actually does something.
All I'm saying is that considered how "modern art" is on a never-ending trajectory down to shit, I'd be glad if it could at least return to this point, where you actually had to put some effort into it and not just tape a banana, squirt paint out of your ass, resell jpegs or sell "invisible statues".
*Yes, those are all real "art projects", that we got after this one.*
@fastidious @prologic This website is mostly just to test the concept. The code as well as the server it's currently running on are very far from something this project would need to achieve it's full potential or be as fun as I'd like it to be. But despite these shortcomings, it was able to convince a few people to consider helping me with creating our own JS-free code from scratch and making it into something more functional. π€
@prologic That's also cool, but I think it's a completely different thing, as it's good for individual or small group sketching, rather than a cross-site canvas for pixelart - which is intentionally never too easy to use, to hopefully make it some mix of old and new pixels. π€
@prologic I'm not that good of a programmer, so the code is borrowed. I've just updated some dependencies, change the default colors and restarted the canvas. π
I'm not even sure how long I'll be able to keep this site up, if it gets a lot of bandwidth, but this is the simplest implementation of this game to host, so if everything works, I'd like to throw the code up on my friends Gitea instance, so the Internet can hopefully have more canvases for people to decorate. π
@fastidious Making it to people only being able to color one pixel at a time could be funny, but I assume most would give up, before their drawing would even really be visible on the canvas. π
Hey everyone, I'm experimenting with hosting pixel drawing games again, so if you have a minute and are on a computer, you can visit the new site at: https://k9-place.glitch.me and claim some pixels of your own on this new canvas! π
@sorenpeter I really like the first, the fifth and the last. The first would be good as a small icon and the pixelated text in the fifth / the last one would be a nice addition when the logo gets a bit bigger / is used on the site. π€
@prologic @movq @lyse It says "Violations could in future be punished with fines of up to 6% of a company's annual revenue" and seems to mostly target algorithms and advertising, so as a platform with no algorithms, no advertising and no revenue, we're all good. Even if we aren't, up to 6% of our annual revenue of 0 is still a 0 dollar fine. ππ
@prologic I know, I was just hoping it might have also gotten fixed by that change, by some kind of backend miracles. π
@eldersnake I sometimes miss the likes for some posts, but I'm glad they're not here most of the time. When sites have likes, I end up only ever posting pixelart (or memes) and not talking, since that is what people will like on these kinds of sites, but with new text posts (unless it's a reply to a conversation a lot of people are interested in) you rarely get any attention, so starting those gives you next to no replies or engagement and only makes you feel down, thinking nobody cares about the topic. π€
@prologic Yes, if your work is related to IT, you're required to give your take on it at least once every January!
And that's still broken. π
@prologic I'll try mentioning @fastidious . He was the ony one I was unable to mention from the app, since he moved pods. π€
@fastidious It went up this high only a month or so ago, so who knows what the future holds. These are also above average rates, that I was able to get, by moving my money to a new bank, willing to pay more. There is also a rule that if the money you have there exceeds some limit (around 32 500 dollars in this bank, less than half in the average bank), the money above the limit will not have interests this good.
@fastidious Inflation hit my country as much as all the rest, but at least the bank where I'm putting my money now has some interests. While it's not enough to cover the inflation, it is currently from 2.8 to 3.6 % a month, which is not too bad, considering it was not even 1% when COVID first hit.
@fastidious If it's interpreted as some dog related pun, than I'm fine with it. That's what I usually do myself, just with changeable display names. π
Funny enough the canine used as my mascot has no canonical name, but thanks to an old file naming convention I was using, that made "Jim" a part of a lot of those image names, some started calling him Jim, so that name is the closest to canon. π
@prologic No, if you add display names, that one can freely change as they please, I'll do so often and push the limit with any and all kinds of unicode I'll manage to shove in there, like I used to do on other socials. π
@prologic Yeah, I get that. If it's impractical, it's not a problem. I just hate when people see my nickname as one word, so being able to change it to either "the canine" or "TheCanine" would be cool and I think there are more people, who would also want the chance to capitalize some letters in their nicknames, so if we get capital letters working, there'll be less need for spaces. π€
@prologic I must have miss-clicked, sorry about that. As for the topic of nicknames, I definitely think spaces should be allowed (outside of the beginning and end) and numbers should probably be allowed too, if they aren't already. π€
@fastidious Sad to see you got hit as well, but value can't only ever go up, as most of the scammers in the crypto space and Internets "financial gurus" want people to believe.
@fastidious "They can be distracting, and even cause issues to other users, which might be sensitive to flashes, constant movements, etc." can be said about any other gifs, even the ones on the timeline, but the other points seem valid, as making them ceoss-pod would lead to problems and having them work only locally is somewhat confusing. π€
@eaplmx I'm not saying those features are bad or value-less, I'm just saying that Nitro started as an "optional donation" to help keep Discord afloat, but once they've seen the money comming in, they got greedy and and started putting features that were never before considered "premium" on other sites behind this paywall and literally calling it an "upsell" in the inside docs. π
@eaplmx I have a lot more disposable income than this, but mostly because I don't dispose of it, paying for bullshit subscription services like this one or Discord Nitro, that only exist to put features other sites offer for free, behind a paywall. π
When I was joking about profile pictures devolving into even worse shapes in Web 3.0, I was not serious, but sadly not wrong either. Now for the low price of 3 dollars/month and your dignity, you can have your Twitter NFT profile picture be verified, by being put into a hexagon.
https://twitter.com/TwitterBlue
@eaplmx Not sure. If your machine is more Intel based* and you like the design, I'd go for it, otherwise I'd probably wait a bit longer.
*There were some AMD processors that Windows 11 had trouble running with, making it a lot slower than Windows 10 on those machines, but maybe that's already fixed.
@markwylde Windows 11 is somewhat better (cleaner) than the mess Windows 10 ended up being, 10 was still a big improvement over the ugly an unusable Windows 8, so maybe things are finally somewhat improving for Windows.
I'm obviously hoping the future will be filled with more desktop Linux and other alternative operating systems, but I'll take Windows over Mac OS any day and I don't feel like I'm ready to switch to Linux on my main machine either, as a lot of the things I have to use for university are not available for operating systems other than Windows.
@lyse Being kicked during calls isn't exclusive to Linux, or at least not for us, as our smart and lovely management though it'd be great to set 2FA authentications to happen as often as possible, to the point when they often happen during calls. Eventually we had to give up and either give management remote access to our personal devices we connect with (only way to extend the interval) or do the 2FA bullshit again before every call, to make sure it doesn't happen during it.
If you wish to connect from an incognito browser, you still get an extra 2FA verification every time, just to be sure that you don't have it too easy.
In my opinion the lack of theming is also something maintained to please the management, as for some reason they're always against any kind of personalization of anything, to the point where you're not even allowed to have a profile picture in anything Microsoft related and if you try to set one, you'll get an error message telling you to ask management for approval, which they don't give. Thought I've seen a few people who somehow got one, so I guess if you take a high ranking manager to the showers where the camera doesn't shine and the soap be kinda slippery, it can still be "negotiated".
@movq It is complete authoritarian bullshit, but I don't know how many people would it even effect/how many devices would even use such a bad DNS server by default. π€
@prologic I was being a bit too vague. The popup box doesn't have them moving only when "Use Original Media" is on, which makes them move on the page, but not in the pup-up.
I was testing all this on the Twt that I just posted, that has three identical gifs of bouncing canines included in it.
@ullarah Yes, but there still seem to be some problems, that I'm trying to summarize here: https://twtxt.net/twt/6bi7yza
The popup box only seems to show them moving when "Use Original Media" is turned off.
In βLightboxβ and βGalleryβ they also do not move in the box that pops-up, when they are clicked.
@fastidious They work "Inline" for me, but "Lightbox" and "Gallery" show them in the exact same way and they donβt move in the app or when "Use Original Media" is turned off.
Gif test, to see if they work now.
When it comes to Windows, I never pay extra for it, as it already comes installed on the devices, that I get for my stuff and keeping Windows on there usually makes doing said stuff easier.
@ullarah I try, but despite the friends and family finding it somewhat interesting, or sometimes even bringing these topics up themselves, they still usually download Chrome onto their new device or do the thing I was trying to warn them against, right after or while I'm still telling them why it is bad, so I can't help but feel like "my words are falling on deaf ears".
@ullarah Because we already live in the dystopian future, where most people don't seem to care about privacy and let the big companies harvest and sell their data, without any kind of real backlash.
@prologic The problem is that "nearest neighbor" resizing is the best option for pixelart, but using it to upsize other art or even photos will make them more blocky.
If you only ever downsize both of these methods should produce good results.
@prologic Yeah, the popups were also lovely, especially the fact most of them were just completely pointless, like giving you annoying chat popups for every single message, if you dared to not have the chatbox open.
I also loved that version where too many chat popups could actually obstruct the chat, to the point when you couldn't even respond or see some messages in there, cause half of the chat was behind chat popups that appeared before you opened the chatbox - peek user experience. π
@prologic Downscaling is not as much of a problem as upscaling, as some sites do that using weird methods and especially in case of pixel art, using anything other tnan "nearest neighbor" for resizing can be really damaging to the quality, to the point where some artists advocate that sites should offer their users a choice between multiple methods of resizing for their art, if the website ever plans to resize it.
Good to know Microsoft Teams can just break your microphone when using a different browser. You will hear everyone else, but they wonβt hear you. Now it happened during a university exam and almost fucked me over.
I still passed, but just barely. I donβt care about grades anymore, but since it was design-related, it still hurts my ego and ruins my day.
@prologic Donβt know how they work exactly, but I donβt think Iβve seen any profile pictures appear blurry or stretched.
@eaplmx Naming conventions be damned, but if a pixel is discolored (even ever so slightly, to the point where no one would ever notice) or misplaced, I will not sleep, until things in this world are right again!
Not to mention some sites image resizing capabilities, that blur or stretch a part of the image and make me violently angry, so Iβm glad Yarn is not one of them, unlike Twitter or Facebook/everything made by "Meta".
@ullarah I always go out of my way to opt-out of any data collecting thing they try to push and use a WinOptimizer (from Ashampoo) designed to block and sabotage as much telemetry as possible, in hopes that it at least gives me some level of anonymity. But I know the average user doesnβt even read those things and just clicks "Next" until Windows setup finishes with the default options - to track everything.
@fastidious What businesses use is usually the worst option, as proven by the Microsoft example. Teams are being shoved down all of our throats and despite the fact I hate Apple, I have to admit that I don't think anyone but Microsoft would be able of making something, that fail at being an app this hard - to the point where I'd consider it malware, or at the very least bloatware, that I couldn't bring myself to keep installed on my machine and now refuse to use outside a somewhat isolated browser, running incognito mode.
@movq It better actually include Clippy in all it's annoying animated glory! π
@jlj I've never used Slack, but from what I've heard, it seems like one of the worst choices, though even Discord is sadly getting greedy-er with every update.
@fastidious @jlj Yeah, it's Discord, I'd recognize it any day, but if you're using it in the mode without profile pictures, than you're using it wrong! π₯΄
@prologic Didn't realize this was possible, now I kinda regret not hosting my own file and not being able to boost my numbers. π
I'm obviously just joking, but I could honestly do without ads in my file manager and other such Android "system apps" the manufacturers put on your phone and don't allow you to uninstall.
You'll live in the pod!, You'll eat the bugs!, You'll work in the wage cage!, You'll own nothing, but still pay for everything!, You'll be advertised to in all the products you don't own, but still paid for!, You'll consooooom the anti-suicide pills... AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!
@prologic "The company is a proprietary company."
But jokes aside, congratulation! π₯³
What Iβm saying is just that the only way to protect any book, is by never putting it online at all and making it some size, that makes it hard to scan. If you ever make an e-book out of it, DRM or not, it will be circulating online in no time, making the DRM pretty much pointless.