RheingoldRiver

@RheingoldRiver@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alphabet Shows the Mega-Layoff Announcements Were Just That, Headcount Dropped Far Less and is Rising Again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's pretty bad because you need to write for multilingual readers, who may not understand the colloquialism "were just that" & can have a difficult time parsing what the pronoun "that" refers to in such a nonstandard and nonlinear sentence.

  If this sentence were part of a novel that already has elaborate prose, it would be fine, but in something designed to inform people on the internet you have to keep in mind how varied your audience is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis drops out of CES, blames UAW strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

  If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I'm not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it's just first name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  huh, whatever that is, doesn't federate to kbin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  do you use the swiping function of it? I've found that to be TERRIBLE at "prediction based on context" e.g. understanding if I want "if" or "of" it does the one that doesn't make sense in context. and it doesn't understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often not welcomed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went into the Element support chat asking if it was possible to change my user name color, as I'm pretty closely identified to this username, and I despise the lime green it creates in that client. They said no, and typically I would expect to then be told, "but you can open a ticket in our tracker" or etc. Instead I was told, "use a different client if you want to change your username color (locally)."

  Very weird experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry, I X'd out of twitter before X X'd twitter, so I can't actually X about Twitter or X on X,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I'm confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EPA destroys 7 years of John Deere BS with one letter :) - VIVA RIGHT TO REPAIR!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DW:

  • Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can't repair your own shit due to "emissions concerns."
  • Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked Chat-GPT to predict future versions of itself. I had to stop at ChatGPT-20. Too scary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that show was terrible. One of the worst-characterized MCs I've ever seen, the quintessential "tell don't show," and a stupid, stupid plot. Even worse now that ChatGPT exists and there's all this "AI" hype. I wish I hadn't wasted 6 precious hours of my life watching that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Koreans favor iPhones over Samsung Galaxy: survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I've had Samsung phones for years and their software on my current phone has had me thinking I might switch to an iPhone whenever I upgrade (hopefully not soon), so, yeah. It was not this bad 10 years ago.