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Fat chance I'll read any of that with five mouse cursors flying around for no obvious reason.
by boomlinde 2y ago
Fat chance I'll read any of that with five mouse cursors flying around for no obvious reason.
- moconnor 2y agoI thought it was cute. You can pull up inspector and delete the pointers div if it bothers you.
- lopis 2y agoShould have a button to disable it. Maybe next to the... useless dark mode button? Funny gimmicks à lá 2004.
- sussmannbaka 2y agoYou’re in luck! Your browser has a button to disable them and it will also activate Dark Mode!
- lopis 2y agoThe close tab button?
- _Algernon_ 2y agoI mean the dark mode button was genuinely funny
- agravier 2y ago"à la", there is no diacritic on "la". "à" means (roughtly) "to" and there is a diacritical mark to distinguish it from "a" as in "il a", "he has". But "la" means "the", like "le" but female, and there is no need to distinguish it from any other homograph.
- singpolyma3 2y agos/female/feminine
- lopis 2y agoYou mean words who menstruate?
- infecto 2y agoIts cute for 2-3 seconds. Not worth the time it takes to delete the pointers manually.
- wiseowise 2y agoIt takes less than a second to press reader mode button.
- boesboes 2y agoI once though clippy was cute too...
- mihaaly 2y agoEasier to hit the back or close button actually.
- arrowsmith 2y agoI think each cursor is the cursor of someone else currently browsing the page. I've seen this before on an article that hit the HN front page; was it this same blog? And more importantly, why would anyone in their right mind think this "feature" is a good idea?
- teekert 2y agoFirst thought: Mouse is dying. Came to read the comments to see what's up when I spotted all the other cursors. Interesting mind fuck.
- rchaud 2y agoThis being HN, I doubt people are reading this on an iPad during working hours on a Tuesday across half the world.
- modatwork 2y agoI kept drawing "hello" hoping for a reply.
- shaan7 2y agoI'm sorry we let you down :(
- wheybags 2y agoIt's a personal blog made for fun. Both features made me smile. What's the problem? The kind of attitude you're displaying here just depresses me. Makes me lose faith in humanity.
- tazu 2y agoAt the very least it should be toggleable. It's distracting and impedes readability. Ostensibly, the goal of writing a blog post is for others to read it.
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- wasteduniverse 2y ago[dead]
- cwales95 2y agoI'm not sure why but it made me feel nauseous. Did not like. I couldn't continue to read either.
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- z3t4 2y agoGood to be reminded once in a while that litterally all your moves are tracked.
- modernerd 2y agoI delete the div.pointers element from the DOM to read Tonksy's site when it hits HN: document.querySelector('.pointers').remove();
- bambax 2y agoThis is insanely annoying. It seems the site is infested with bugs.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoBug? It's intentional behaviour
- bambax 2y agoI mean bugs in the literal sense of insects crawling on the screen.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoYeah, I realized after I wrote my comment
- noisy_boy 2y agoEnglish is an amazing language. Chances are slim == Fat Chance.
- yahayahya 2y agoIsn’t this an example of sarcasm, rather than an example of two contradictory colloquialisms?
- Affric 2y agoIs that a rhetorical question?
- dcuthbertson 2y agoWell, isn't it by definition that the likelihood of a Fat Chance is slim?
- pelagicAustral 2y agoI think you're reff'ing this article: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/ https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-sear... Yeah, at the time I thought "who the hell thought this would be a good idea?"
- martinpeck 2y agoI really dislike this. Sure...it's fun, but where did I "sign up" to allow others to see where my mouse pointer is? How do I disable it? What else, from my machine, is being captured and broadcast?
- imchillyb 2y ago> …what else? Unless you’ve selectively disabled features, then everything you do and every metric your browser captures. Did you make the window full screen? Tattled. Did you change default font or size? Tattled. Did you visit any site with tracking beacons? Tattled. Do you use a laptop or phone? Then sensor data and eye tracking are on the table for tattling. Does your machine have WiFi on? Did you expressly turn off device discovery for connected networks? No? Tattled. The only way to remain private is not to have family, friends, coworkers, or neighbors. The weakest security links are those not under your control.
- jobigoud 2y agoFor a second I thought someone had somehow remote-desktopped into my computer and I could see their pointer.
- turnsout 2y agoYeah this is the most distracting reading experience I've ever encountered. Ironically it's very antithetical to the local-first philosophy.
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- 8organicbits 2y agoI think this is a good place to plug prefers-reduced-motions, which is a setting to signal that the user doesn't want unneeded motion on the screen. I don't think many sites support it, but (as someone who finds this very annoying) I wish more did. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...