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I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.
by imsohotness 8mo ago
I've seen this before, I know Sam Altman does it (or used to do it). That was a couple years ago. Hope it doesn't become a trend.
- the_af 8mo agoIt's already a trend. It's been for at least a decade. I'm surprised people here never noticed it...
- layer8 8mo agoUnfortunately it has become quite common on HN already. It comes from people growing up on smartphone chats where the kids apparently don’t care to press Shift.
- Uehreka 8mo agoWhat’s weird though is that modern OSes often auto-capitalize the first letter of a sentence, so it actually takes more effort to deliberately type in all-lowercase.
- rileymichael 8mo agosimple toggle to disable it permanently my reasoning is that i don’t want identifiable markers for what device im writing from. so all auto-* (capitalization, correct, etc.) features are disabled so that i have raw input
- hluska 8mo agoBeing part of the minority that disables those things (and then admitting to it in public) provides a lot more analytical signal than you’re aware of. That’s a remarkably poor reason to disrespect your readers.
- rileymichael 8mo agoi don't care about the 'analytical signal'. the purpose is people can't tell if im writing a (discord, slack, etc.) message from my phone or laptop or desktop, and it works for that
- nemomarx 8mo agoOnly mobile does that in my experience - you can tell what platform people send discord messages on based on this usually
- GaryBluto 8mo agoI've already written an extension that filters these comments intelligently. (E.g., quotes are ignored but if the rest of the body is all lowercase it is collapsed.)
- verdverm 8mo agohave you shared it anywhere?
- GaryBluto 8mo agoI plan to at some point, it's part of a bigger extension I created for myself to filter out minor annoyances and I'd have to strip out/modify things other people probably wouldn't want (such as filtering of "new age" TLDs like ".pizza" and whatnot).