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A bug which affected only left handed users
- 42Hugh 3mo ago[flagged]
- sixhobbits 3mo agosomething similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen to scroll.
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoThe solution is simple : don’t use LinkedIn :) I only use it when looking for a job and I never look at the “feed” (what’s that for anyway?)
- throw1234567891 3mo agoI get more useful and up-to-date info from LinkedIn than from here.
- Forgeties79 3mo agoLinkedIn is this constant networking event where everyone is looking for their next opportunity. It just feels gross to participate in it. Especially now that the only thing people do is talk about AI or use AI to talk about AI on their behalf.
- throw1234567891 3mo agoAnd here it’s a constant flex with limited ability to participate in a discussion due to non-transparent posting quotas.
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- Forgeties79 3mo agoI mean how much do you really need to post here? I hit the limit occasionally but the forced slow down after a few comments seems rather wise to me. Helps people cool off for starters. Feel free to go hang out on LinkedIn my dude. No one’s forcing you to tolerate comment limits here!
- throw1234567891 3mo agoYou never take part in multiple discussions? 10 minutes to cool off would be acceptable. Hours? No. It’s impossible to hold a conversation here. The measure has nothing to do with cooling off. It’s a simple anti-llm-spam measure.
- Forgeties79 3mo agoThese policies existed years before LLM spam.
- tuvix 3mo agoNot sure who you’re following on LinkedIn but this is most assuredly not the case for me or anyone I know
- john_strinlai 3mo agoup-to-date info on what sorts of topics?
- throw1234567891 3mo agoOn every subject that isn’t “rewritten in Rust”.
- nja 3mo agosometimes I wonder if things like this are actually dark patterns to _encourage_ accidentally clicking 'like' etc. similar to how in Threads, the '...' icon (under which 'save' is hidden) is so small that half the time clicking on it just clicks the entire thread (opening it to view replies) -- sometimes I suspect they make the target extra small on purpose or how on FB, some of the options in the menu are now under the AI generated content, which pops in just slowly enough to encourage misclicks as items shift under your finger all to make some PM's numbers go up, of course...
- relaxedmedal 3mo agoI think they do encourage it - probably due to marketing. If you are getting paid per click its in your best interest to get someone to click irrespective of content. Snapchat do it with the scroll up feature, instead of it going to the next clip as most doom scrollers do, it goes straight to a profile. Vice Versa on other popular platforms. That little 'glitch' for a second, and now a new popup came at just the time you were about to press right where your digit is and you are loading onto a sponsored site. Of course the sponsor then boasts look how many clicks you have got.
- pbhjpbhj 3mo agoNYT games app loads in an interstitial screen with a play button, as you go to click it they shift it up and put a subscribe button there so that when you click you accidentally click subscribe. Evil genius. It could be accidental, but without that there's no reason to have the interstitial screen at all.
- nitwit005 3mo agoMaking bad assumptions about data seems more likely than deliberate malice. If you A/B test different designs, and you see a huge increase in "interactions" with some design, you'll tend to assume that's a positive thing, unless you spend the time to interview a lot of customers to figure out what's going on.
- LeifCarrotson 3mo agoI'm not left-handed, but I often scroll my phone with my left thumb. My right hand is on my computer mouse, or holding a pen, or employed to make precise touches on the phone screen with my right index finger, or briefly comes over to join with my left thumb for typing... Scrolling doesn't require much precision, and I naturally hold my phone in my left hand.
- Terr_ 3mo ago> A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture™. Or perhaps the righteous versus the sinister.
- gpvos 3mo agoI'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.
- recursive 3mo agoI'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.
- madaxe_again 3mo agoI’m a guy who’ll leave his laptop on the floor and will bend double from a chair to use it, on the floor, because I have forgotten I can pick it up. I am ergonomically insensitive. Anyway, I use my phone in my left hand, my right hand, or both, pretty much equally.
- ThrowawayTestr 3mo agoGet a ring for the back of your phone. Makes one handed use much easier.
- robin_reala 3mo agoThere’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis, and I plan to keep it going until Apple caves and makes a sensibly sized phone again.
- mikestew 3mo agoThere’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis… You, me, and my wife. I’m just waiting for my phone to hit 79% battery health so I can take them both in for battery replacement. It’s gotten to the point that I frequently get asked, “what phone is that”. I imagine because all phones are the size of aircraft carriers now, and an iPhone Mini really stands out.
- sscaryterry 3mo agoThe older I get, the more sausage fingers I get.
- TacticalCoder 3mo ago> The older I get, the more sausage fingers I get. It seems with age fingers do not just get fatter (feet too btw) but also get drier. So the keys do not register as well on smartphones: older people hitting right in the middle of the virtual keys, one by one, in a slow but decided manner are not "just old". There's apparently some science behind it.
- annzabelle 3mo agoAndroid has an old person setting with larger text and icons and explicit home/back buttons. I might set up my parents with it, but I currently have it on my phone in my attempt to make my phone less addictive. The combination of a black and white screen, old person setting squeezing out information, and turning off animations makes my phone feel shitty to use without having to actually block Instagram (which is commonly used for messaging in my circles) or any other app.
- walthamstow 3mo agoOne of the great things about promoting LLMs is I don't have to care about sausage finger typos any more
- dools 3mo agoTo obtain a special dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now
- incognito124 3mo agoReminds me of this old youtube bug where some of the videos that were uploaded ended up upside down because of a phone orientation during recording: https://bruteforceswimathon.medium.com/youtube-help-my-video-is-upside-down-f1ea5636997a https://bruteforceswimathon.medium.com/youtube-help-my-video...
- BrenBarn 3mo agoI had to read this a couple times and look at the comments here before I realized they were talking about scrolling on a phone. I was like "who scrolls with their thumb?"
- cwillu 3mo agoRight-handed, and I run into this bug constantly.
- naikrovek 3mo agoAs a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely. I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see. So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people, us southpaws are not laughing. And if you try to tell me you are, I seriously doubt that you are left-handed.
- sapphicsnail 3mo agoI'm sorry it upset you. I thought it was funny but I'm also younger and I think I escaped most of the dextrocentric bullshit my parents' generation had to deal with. My mom was forced to use her right hand but it was mostly just an inconvenience for me. I like making jokes about being sinister (literally the Latin word for left) but I'd probably feel differently if people smacked me over it.
- what 3mo agoCan you elaborate on this “right handed bias”? I can’t think of anything other than a can opener where it might matter?
- csande17 3mo agoScissors are the other big one; most of them are designed so that when to try to use them with your left hand, you end up pushing the blades apart slightly so they don't cut as well (or at all). With that being said, self-deprecating jokes about how left-handedness is an affront to God are definitely a prominent feature of lefty culture. (Edit: I guess formal place-setting is another area of society that assumes right-handedness, as well as restaurants that pack people close enough together that everyone needs to use the same hands to avoid elbowing each other.)
- kevin_thibedeau 3mo agoI prefer right-handed scissors because you can see the cut line better when using them left-handed. It does take some technique to keep the blades shearing.
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- paulmooreparks 3mo agoI'm right-handed, and I hold my phone in my left hand and scroll my phone with my left thumb.
- pmontra 3mo agoIt makes sense to use the left hand as phone holder to be free to use the right hand to do some other activity, example: I will have my breakfast while reading HN. However I usually keep my phone with my right hand and scroll with my right thumb. Furthermore I am writing this comment by swiping with my right thumb. I can swipe with my left thumb but I'm not as accurate.
- Gunax 3mo agoThe worst curse put upon us is XNA games engine, which was unable to distinguish primary from secondary clicks. So players who swapped mouse buttons at the OS level were out of luck. Most developers assumed that left click = primary click, but that's only true about 95% of the time. Terraria, among others, still has this bug.
- kuranaka 3mo ago[flagged]
- queenkjuul 3mo agoAs i was scrolling the comments with my left hand, i inadvertently opened comment replies three times...