Transtronaut

@Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Graphic Novels+ is moving to PieFed.Social (link & info in post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see this! I don’t remember the password for my old lemm.ee account, but this was the only community I could think of that I would have missed from my subscriptions, so now you’ve saved me the effort of going looking for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.

  They might both be right. I know my exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased since I stopped engaging with that platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak from real life experience, but one movie that actually handles this really well (as far as I can tell) is The Quiet Man, during a fight.

  There’s an example of an impromptu, casual bet between two individuals who are understood to trust one another, where they actually set the odds and agree formally, and it all happens very smoothly and naturally so as not to be boring: “Five to one on the big chap” “Given or taken?” “Given” “Taken” Handshake

  There is also an example of the more chaotic, mass, unplanned betting, where a character who is already established to be a jack of all trades known to the community pulls out a notebook and takes on the role of bookie. I think they even show the odds being adjusted in real time as the fight progresses, but I don’t recall for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the user has indicated that they are not interested in new features, it means they do not care about new features. They don’t want to know about them, or they prefer to find out proactively in their own time. If you still insist on ramming notifications down their throat at that point, you’re not doing it for the user. You’re doing it for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features. If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in. Anything beyond that is inherently predatory.

  Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification, so you can easily disable it the first time they become relevant. If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having originally cut my teeth on Harvest Moons on SNES, N64, PS, PS2, and DS, I found the controls for Stardew Valley mind-blowingly good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, “buy now, pay later” usually refers to installment plan services like Klarna and Afterpay. Credit card companies have a different business model.

  The business model for those services is basically to do all the shady shit that credit companies can’t do anymore because they’ve been around long enough to become regulated.

  Going back to the original point about thinking people will be able to pay later. I doubt that’s the goal. My impression is that their income is meant to come from two places:

  • garnishing people’s wages forever and getting them on interest that they can never repay (won’t work on everyone, but maybe enough for margins)
  • laundering and selling these subprime loans by bundling them with better loans, like the mortgage industry pre-2008
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is also a pretty good fit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kguaGI7aZg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least a blåhaj is kind of like a pokémon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how things are going in America today...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it’s just basic competence in governance. It’s an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.