SLJ7

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by SLJ7 7mo ago
I suppose it depends on what you think a power user is. Personally, I think it's someone who is interested in solving their own problems and thinking critically or outside the box. Someone who understands not only how to do something,
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by SLJ7 7mo ago
That's a wide spectrum. Not understanding that gmail isn't email is well into "How do you not know this?" territory. Whereas only very specific users know about Bash and Emacs. I do often have that experience of needing
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by SLJ7 7mo ago
Right, and people do vote with their wallets. They vote for the iPhone. We don't have iPhones because they exist; they exist because we keep buying them. This isn't a chicken and egg situation. Apple offered people a deliciously
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by SLJ7 2y ago
You should really take the few minutes to email them and let them know that's happening. It's not their fault Cloudflare is awful.
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by SLJ7 3y ago
It's not worthwhile for Netflix. They already have people signing up through the website because that's the only way you can sign up now. So they're not giving a cut to Apple at all. If anyone looks up "why can't yo
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by SLJ7 3y ago
I would like to understand enough about law, governments and the postal service to assign blame here, but I'll just say that it's really fucking sad that this is still in any way ongoing after being known about for so many years.
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by SLJ7 3y ago
Apple specifically forbids developers from mentioning the 30% cut in their apps. That means either the users pay more, the developers lose money, or they do what Netflix did and just force the user to figure out how to sign up (because you
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by SLJ7 3y ago
No, 3% is just Apple accounting for credit card processing fees. It will end up costing developers roughly the same whether they use alternative payment methods or not, which is obviously Apple's plan.
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by SLJ7 3y ago
> but should have Not really, as the entire reason the API helps us is because Reddit has done such an appallingly bad job at accessibility. There were great third-party Twitter apps and I used them, but when they all shut down, I wasn&#
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by SLJ7 5y ago
>I'm sure the mechanism for configuring this bypass is documented. But does your documentation specifically call out the accessibility limitation of your product, the need for this workaround, and the recommended additional safeguar
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by SLJ7 5y ago
In an ideal world where products are all accessible, I would say we could be just as efficient at most daily tasks. Obviously this is not an ideal world, but if we give ut screen-reader support equal weight compared to visual design, it pro
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by SLJ7 5y ago
Interestingly, iOS screen recognition also allows exploration of screenshots and remote desktop screens. I've heard of people using it to remotely install Windows as well. It would surprise me if Apple didn't have plans to put the
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by SLJ7 5y ago
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) recently held its annual convention virtually. One of their sponsorships was a company that provides a supposed drop-in solution for screen-reader accessibility. The solution is being widely adopte
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by SLJ7 5y ago
>But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason. The other fun part about those captchas is they also gatekeep blind people in a way. They're using a service called HCaptcha which doesn't offer an audio alt