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vor 15 Tagendiscuss

Perhaps modeled after the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Thousand_Whys

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

That explains the recent useless UI update on Quest OS, I guess

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply! I agree that in both of the scenarios you mentioned, this API does provide better usability.

I guess what feels wrong to me is the implicitness of this feature, I'm not sure whether clicking on something is going to add to history or not (until the back button breaks, then I really know).

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

(rant warning)

Well, if I wanted to return to the parent screen in a single page application, I'd click on the back button in the app itself. No need to prevent me from back tracking in the exact order of my browsing should I need it.

I especially hate YouTube's implementation, I can never know the true state on my older PC during whatever it's trying to accomplish, often playing audio from a previous video when I backspace out. I resort to opening every link in a new tab.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Please explain the legitimate uses. Not once I have ever encountered a website that does something useful by modifying the behavior of my browsing history.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The Affinity suite was made free to use, with optional paid "AI" features behind a subscription. The betrayal was probably against the promise of a perpetual license sustained not by subscription.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Trigger warnings are not there for some scientific effect. I view them as courtesy for consumers to have an chance to opt out of possibly unwanted experiences beforehand.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Are there links I can read up on this? Ethernet as on-chip bus blows my mind.

I guess it's cheaper than having to redesign an entire SoC, but still...

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

> You still need to use your phone number to sign up, though.

Which defeats the whole point. What if the FBI politely asks Signal about a phone number?

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Totally understandable and even reasonable position, but the paying customer gets the worse treatment, which does not sit right.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

> marking clipboard text with some magical locale indicator

The geniuses behind Unicode managed to make it mandatory anyways, at least if you want correct CJK text rendering :)

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Calling Half-Life 2D somehow feels right and wrong at the same time but I get what you mean.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

That's what Sigil did with Buckethead, in a way.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Those fonts look awful in a hard to describe way. Font uncanny-valley? I feel like a barcode reader trying to OCR meaning out of ink blots.

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I'm convinced whatever Torment Nexus we can think of will get built.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Wow, perhaps Nintendo/Konami actually learned this tactic from IBM, threatening smaller game developers with patents when their case for copyright is too weak...

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

That's like saying online banking is doomed because rubber-hose cryptanalysis exists. The defense does not have to stop 100% of the exploits to be effective.

I hate kernel level anti-cheats but they do provide friction and reduce cheating.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

To give them the benefit of doubt, English may not be their first language, so they might not be aware of the implication this comment gives.

It would be such irony if they asked GPT to reword it to a more polite tone though...

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

> Generally speaking, orgs aren't trying to replace high-quality human translations with lower-quality machine translations.

Seems that this is exactly what Mozilla did? And Microsoft, and Reddit, etc.