MiddleEndian

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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
It's even easier to just not do it at all
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
They hate infinite scrolling because it's addictive. I hate infinite scrolling because it's annoying lol. The worst is when you scroll to the bottom of a news article and it just loads another and your scrollbar and your URL/
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
Anecdotally, my physical therapist (far more connected to the cultural zeitgeist than I am) brought up the ad yesterday and talked about how creepy it was.
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
It will impact me since I've decided to go with plan C ahead of time. Hard to keep track of everything every company does, but I'd rather not use a service that is unnecessarily aggregating facial scans + IDs of its users.
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
Whether I have to provide ID myself or not, I prefer to live in a world where when a company even announces that they plan to do facial scanning, they lose most of their customers. Hard to keep track of everything every company is doing of
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
I'm generally opposed to services unnecessarily wanting IDs, content filtering for direct messages from my contacts, unwanted popups (it's already annoying when my friends send me a link to a site I haven't visited from disco
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
I talk to three people on Discord. If I have to choose between A) giving Discord my ID, B) giving Discord a fraudulent ID, or C) just chatting with them on some other program, I'll just go with C. If I cared about Discord more I guess
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
What if you RAID01 it, so you have four safety deposit boxes, two with the first half of your password, two with the second half of your password? Then no snoop at a particular bank would be able to get your password, but also if one or two
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
If the people who produced toilets ACTUALLY cared about stopping the ever-evolving landscape of awful things, they could: A. Release security updates independently from feature updates B. Stop adding random features that hook you up to more
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
The funny thing is SAAS frequently provides less value because of automatic updates. If your toilet could change its shape at a moment's notice because of some study on a sample of people who are entirely unlike you or even just becaus
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
We literally started rolling out chip-and-pin after tap-and-go was already rolled out in England (and presumably elsewhere). It made no fucking sense because it was obviously going to be replaced again, and chip-and-pin is a miserable exper
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by MiddleEndian 8mo ago
Super Ball!
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Windows Phone was fantastic because it had no apps. Wish it managed to stake out and maintain a decent portion of the phone market. If 30% of the population could say "Oh sorry TicketMaster, I can't install your app, please just e
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
If they actually cared about scams on Android, when I explicitly searched for <App I'm going to pay for anyway> in the Play Store, they wouldn't put <Some other random app that pays money to appear above the app I searche
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I already have a ton of gmail filters and folders, most of which I rarely check. Any organization that continues to send marketing material after someone clicks Unsubscribe (with maybe a grace period of a few hours) should have all of their
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Right, and I think that if they send spam, all email providers (especially gmail, the largest provider) should mark all their emails as spam by default. They are doing what is described above at a large scale, so large-scale reactions are n
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Sure, you can manually unmark them as spam, and gmail should respect that preference as well. But for the rest of us, it would be an improvement if Paypal was sent to spam by default until they were forced to stop sending spam.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Bazzite. It's KDE, it's easy, it's immutable so you can update and it's unlikely to break shit. It comes with Steam already. Keyboard shortcuts very similar to Windows. Dolphin (File Explorer equivalent) responds as quic
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
>However, if thousands of users report same domain or sender as spam, then the email service provider may take stern action, including blocking the sender email id or domain at the server level, so their messages will never reach your ma
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
In Windows 10, they added a shortcut Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift to open Microsoft Office 365 (or whatever they call(ed) it). Caused me a ton of confusion and annoyance when I picked up my laptop by the corner of the keyboard.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I mean if said company first spammed you and you marked them as spam, then it is on them. No different than if someone sent you a bunch of unwanted letters and you threw them out, but one of them happened to be relevant. It's on the or
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Perhaps non-tech-literate people should not be annoyed with unwanted popups either.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
>I get their point that you can't provide a "No" in the reminder. Yes you can. All reminders should have an option "Do not remind me again."
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Every so often I consider writing the "STFU license." Something like GPL but if you use this code, even as a library, you can't give people unwanted notifications. Would need to be pretty comprehensive and forward compatible
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I would say the base problem is that said organization sent you spam and then disconnected you, rather than the spam filter.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I think that's fine. If 20% of the emails from some company (let's say Paypal) are spam, then all email providers (especially Gmail, the largest provider) should mark ALL of their emails as spam by default until they stop spending
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
One of the main reasons I used to like Macs instead of Windows machines was because Apple did not do this kind of bullshit lol. Although showing ads on the app store above your searches at all is terrible behavior that both iOS and Android
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
lol I misread this as "What will you find out or explore today?" cuz it was pretty early in the morning. But it was the antenna.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Why Bluetooth is detecting peripherals but won't connect to them on the new PC I built. Getting an antenna today but only 50% sure this will fix the issue.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
Sure why not? Site for half-finished projects or ramblings: https://www.middleendian.com/ Site for half-finished games: https://www.miscbeef.com/

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