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I deeply hate this behavior. Another example: The Health app on iOS has a closeable banner for the "Health Checklist" UI, which gives me the option to turn on t
by qwerpy 1y ago
I deeply hate this behavior. Another example: The Health app on iOS has a closeable banner for the "Health Checklist" UI, which gives me the option to turn on things like crash detection, fall detection, etc. All of which are notifications. I hate notifications so I will never turn these on. I dutifully scanned through it the first time and verified everything was turned off, and the banner went away. But like clockwork, the banner comes back every 2 weeks and asks me to go through the checklist again. I suspect there's a "right answer" here. If I consent to turn everything on, it'll stop nagging me. But this badly needs a Never button, not a X button that actually means "nag me again in 2 weeks". I get that some product manager wants their fancy watch features enabled for more users so they can get a promotion, but their career ambitions are degrading my experience.
- ghaff 1y agoA lot of these things could be useful but there will probably be more false alarms than not to varying degrees. I know I’ve had looks like you had a hard fall alerts that ranged from “huh?” To I landed on my butt from the edge of a bed that I wouldn’t have wanted an ambulance much less a helicopter for.
- wincy 1y agoMy grandpa used to say every few years they’d vote on allowing casinos. And every few years the people of Missouri would vote NO casinos. But one time, they voted to allow the casinos. Then the votes stopped. Hugely manipulative and it feels like this sort of thing is everywhere now.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoFrom a memorable villain monologue: > all we need... is for one of us, just one, sooner or later to have the thing we're all hoping for. One good day.
- bena 1y agoTo be fair, when you don't have casinos, you don't have casino taxes, casino employment, casino tourism, etc. Also, you don't just "have" casinos, building any building of that size is at the very least a multi-month affair and likely multiple years. So once you say "yes", you've set something in motion that is way harder to unwind than it was to kick off. Also, I can see it being the casinos themselves asking permission to enter the state. Once they're allowed in, why would they ask to leave? That would be the job of someone else.
- xg15 1y agoWould be interesting to know who petitioned for the votes.
- bena 1y agoThe casinos. That’s the only reason it kept coming up. If the people want them gone, they have to do the same as the casinos did.
- tartoran 1y agoThere are also negatives that come with casinos. The taxes are nice but the crime isn't.
- trollbridge 1y agoIn other words, we should let powerful corporations control the agenda of democracy, not the demos (that is, the people)?
- daedrdev 1y agoThere is a similar case in California where every year a ballot initiative is proposed to repeal a law banning local rent control. Despite it failing every election it continues to get proposed. So its not just corporations who can do this, the demos do it too.
- namaria 1y agoThere should be an exponential backoff rule for failing propositions.
- daedrdev 1y agoI don't like the idea because if you notice public opinion are slowly shifting on an policy you could purposefully propose it each backoff date to entrench it for like 8 or 16 years when public perception does swap.
- frakt0x90 1y agoIt's like p-hacking but with voting. Try enough tests/samples/whatever and eventually you'll get something that's "statisitically significant". Like the old xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/
- mhb 1y agoIt's not just casinos. It's also the Constitution. And they've had over 200 years.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoWell yea. That why modifying the constitution is a monumental effort. They don't want things to sway as the congress and president shifts. It was easier for Texas to try and secede than to try and change the constitution in their favor.
- mhb 1y agoNot overtly modifying it with amendments. Nibbling away at it with, for example, insanely broad interpretations of interstate commerce.
- soupfordummies 1y agoThey did this with a giant new jail and its financing via sales tax in my hometown. First they bundled it in the regular November election. It failed. So then they bundled it in a run-off or primary election. It still failed. Finally they ran it on a solo ballot and it finally passed. I was like 19 or so. Voted against it every time but that was sort of an eye-opening moment for young me.
- cortesoft 1y agoThis is the classic result of the problem with democracy and “concentrated benefits and disperse costs”. Legal gambling is a HUGE money making opportunity for casinos, and for most voters it is just a minor negative. Of course, utility wise, the minor cost times the number of voters is much higher than the concentrated benefit, but the concentration makes it worth it for casinos to keep fighting for legalization. The cost of fighting for it is less than the benefit when it is legalized. Now that it is legalized, though, there is no one who has a concentrated enough cost to fight for its reversal. It is more rational to just suffer the small cost of gambling instead of fighting hard for its repeal. So as you say, they only have to win the fight once, and it is won forever, and society is slightly worse off. This is the exact same reason Intuit keeps winning the tax battle… it matters more to them than anyone else, even though it makes it a little bit worse for everyone.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoIt also doesn't help that these days the stwte/country is probably large enough to gather ebouygh of a petition for whatever you want. Just word it nicely and you can get 10k, 100k people to say "sure why not?" Apathy reigns as usual.
- cortesoft 1y agoIt isn’t apathy, it is rationality. Why would I spend a ton of time fighting against a problem that is a minor inconvenience to me? I have a lot of important things going on in my life, and a limited amount of time and energy to do things. It isn’t rational for me (or most people) to spend a bunch of time, money, and effort fighting against legalized gambling. There literally isn’t enough time in the day for me to fight against everything, so you pick and choose where to spend your energy.
- akoboldfrying 1y agoAgree. I like the idea of policy changes like this having an expiry date a few years in the future, which forces a periodic revote if some party wants to keep the new policy. Like a political office term, this should be long enough to give businesses a timeframe they can plan around, and an opportunity for voters to see how the policy played out. Perhaps it would lead to an ever-increasing pile of legal "confirmation dialog boxes" that bore the public. But I like that the default action (doing nothing) would lead to regulations being deleted, as there are few forces that act to reduce regulation, and having too many regulations is another slow-burn energy sink for everyone.
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- ludicrousdispla 1y agoyeah, the second time an issue has a vote, it should be a vote on whether to have another vote 'to vote on the issue'... then if that second vote fails, then the third time it comes up it should be a vote on whether to vote again in order to decide whether to have another 'vote on the issue' ... repeat as necessary
- radicalbyte 1y agoYeah and there should be a kind of two-phase commit added. Take the Brexit vote: there should have been one vote to say "do we want to leave the EU" and then a second vote where we either accepted the CONCRETE negotiated deal, or stayed. It builds resilience and redundancy into systems for the big questions.
- daedrdev 1y agoI feel like it is literally impossible to make a law that is actually able to do this
- _Algernon_ 1y agoSame thing is how encryption backdoor laws and other erosions of rights work. Be vigilant because the first time the vote goes through, they will never hold another vote.
- daedrdev 1y agoThere is a similar case in California where every year a ballot initiative is proposed to repeal a law banning local rent control, in the last election it was prop 33. Despite it failing every election it continues to get proposed.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoThat one would unfortunately have a huge impact on some people. Aka, anyone who may need to house themselves one days but can't afford to buy. Sure hope we keep fighting that.
- dornan 1y agoRent control is beneficial to incumbent long term tenants but is pretty bad for everyone else including those who are looking for an apartment. It's one of the many "pro-renter" regulations that constrains supply and makes rent higher. Price controls don't work for groceries or gasoline, why would they work for rent? If you can find data in support of such a policy I'd be interested to see it.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoYes. But the thing is incumbent renters don't really have many rights in the US. The landlord is perfectly free to kick you out by not renewing the lease, and they need no reason to not renew it. So any benefits can be nullified by the very party the law is trying to protect you from. >Price controls don't work for groceries or gasoline, why would they work for rent? Whats the alternative? They increase rent to the point where people are kicked out anyway? Every option leads to unattainable rent except for the rich.
- daedrdev 1y agoBuild housing since we aee clearly in a shortage since they can raise rent so high
- JoshTriplett 1y ago
- andrepd 1y agoKinda how the European """parliament""" works. It's the only body called "parliament" in the entire world that I'm aware of which does not have the power to propose laws. Therefore: if the commission wants a law, all they have to do is keep trying. If it fails, they try again. If it passes, well it only has to pass once. Because the parliament can't introduce bills which means it can't repeal existing laws.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoThis will be controversial, but it is essentially true. This is like EU style democracy. If the vote never passes too often, stop asking and do it anyway.
- smallmancontrov 1y agoApple's "This video conferencing app just disabled reactions!!!!" notification is just the worst. Every video chat, every app, every time. Ugh! I even like Apple's reactions implementation, which is pretty good, but there's definitely some PM that wants to push it in my face 10 times every day and I don't know what's worse, the PM doing this fully understanding the cost or whatever system stands aside and lets them continue.
- astrange 1y agoPMs basically don't exist at Apple and certainly don't get to make any decisions when they do. That's an exec making you do that ;)
- tobr 1y agoApple is hard at work enshittifying everything despite their main competitive advantage being a business model that doesn’t actually require them to do that. The iPhone settings app in particular is filled with advertising banners that add red badges to the icon that cannot be disabled.
- goosedragons 1y agoNah. Their business model requires it, just more subtle. Half the Apple "ecosystem" is just crippling their own products to only play nice with their products so you feel compelled to buy it over alternatives. See things like the Apple Watch, MTP support, iCloud backup etc.
- permo-w 1y agoyou can see why they do. for me the only real fear of moving to android (I did anyway) was losing access to the Apple ecosystem. on the other hand, they've railroaded themselves into this situation by choosing it as the competitive advantage they want to pursue, and in doing so have damaged computing philosophy as a whole
- Yeul 1y agoI buy a midrange Samsung phone and I understand that they need to make some money on it. But with Apple you're paying 1000 eurodollars so the least they can do is respect the customer.
- tikhonj 1y agoYouTube keeps on pushing shorts. If you click the x button on the "shorts" section, it will straight up tell you that it's only hiding the reccomendation for 30 days. They're not even pretending otherwise!
- trollbridge 1y agoWhich makes me feel much better about using yt-dlp, SponsorBlock, and Brave.
- trinsic2 1y agoSame. With the way they have been trying to circumvent ad-blocking im YT-DLP'ing everythign now.
- duskwuff 1y agoThat's not even the worst of it. YouTube has a "shelf" that exists solely to announce that YouTube TV was rated highly in a JD Power consumer survey. It's completely meaningless to users, but that doesn't stop them from trying to show it to you again every few weeks. Some YouTube executive must be really proud of that award.
- DigitallyFidget 1y agoAdblock. You can selectively block elements from sites. I've blocked shorts from it and honestly forgot how annoying it was until these comments. Just right click, block element, preview before applying, make sure you don't butcher out unintended parts of the pages.
- senkora 1y agoIf you turn off your YouTube watch history, then it effectively disables shorts. That’s what I do. I only watch videos from my subscriptions feed.
- phantomathkg 1y agoThis is because you are not the target audience of short. The sad reality is, every apps out there are chasing the attention grabbing KPI. The more time the potential user spent on the platform, the better it is for them. The second part of the chasing is, are they targetting the younger generation, or not. Because of TikTok and other spin off, YouTube has no choice but have to chase behind and ideally overtake them. Every single VOD app out there are trying to do the same.
- cortesoft 1y agoThe annoying one for me right now is Windows 11. Every few restarts, it is showing a pop up that shows the wallpaper that was chosen and a “learn more” button… the pop up can’t be moved, can’t be closed, and stays on top no matter what. It took me a few minutes before I finally gave up and clicked on the “learn more” button, which of course opened Edge (even though edge isn’t my default browser), which of course prompted me to switch to using edge as my default browser, which I had to decline and close edge again. And now I have repeated this dance a number of times on restarts. No, I don’t want to learn more about the wallpaper, and I don’t want to use Edge!
- srfn 1y agoThis, certainly, can be disabled. I don't remember the exact name of the setting, BUT here is what I use: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 You should be able to find the setting responsible for displaying these "learn more" buttons. I always disable it for myself and friend's computers. Once you know your ways around disabling all annoyances in Windows, it's really smooth sail. Good luck!
- anal_reactor 1y agoEvery few weeks I get "Windows 10 will reach end-of-support soon!". Honestly, I appreciate this, because it helps me mentally prepare for he day I'll finally switch to Linux.
- bongodongobob 1y agoIs this maybe a work phone enrolled in MDM or something? I do more phone management than I'd like to at work and haven't seen this.
- qwerpy 1y agoIt’s a personal phone enrolled in work MDM. Seems very surprising that it would affect the Health app in this specific way though.
- spollo 1y agoMy personal biggest gripe is the Gmail app on iPhone. There is no possible way to stop it from trying to force you to change your default browser to chrome every 2 weeks when you open a link.
- permo-w 1y agothe Mail app has its own massive issues. for whatever reason it is completely unable to just background sync and notify you immediately when you get an email. why is every messaging app able to do this instantaneously but email is not? also their new default-on email classification system is a fucking nightmare and I was so glad when I figured out you can turn it off plus why do my email drafts load in oldest first?
- rgovostes 1y agoYes! You can select “remember my choice” but it won’t. Evil.
- gessha 1y agoThat’s weird. I have a ton of browsers on my phone, default is Safari and I don’t get anything from Gmail. This is on 15 pro.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI hate what is often sold as modern UX. Every criticism is brushed away as just being nostalgic while they are objective design disadvantages to something that often is inherently subjective. But some design decision are just timeless crap. This is such a fitting example of bad design but there will be still people defending it because of some alleged grandma not finding her settings. Just wait, there are a lot of those.
- stogot 1y agoApple News does this too. If you block a news source, Apple will still show news from these sources, but they’ll just make it greyscale instead of colors. Apple disrespects its users choice
- seec 1y agoThe amount of nagging in recent Apple software is extremely annoying. Personally, I believe it the influence of women's behavior on how things should be.