Telaneo

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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Datatilsynet, the Norwegian DPA, from my experience, consistently has the user in mind. It (sadly) takes a long time for things to pass through the system, but they consistently come to good decisions.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
It might have varied across versions (maybe Home Edition still hid them, while Professional didn't?). But given the number of guides and people complaining about it online even in the XP days, it must have been a default in some capaci
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
It's been the default since Windows 95, and I suspect it's because it was just noise to the average and upcoming computer user (ignoring the fact that coolsong.mp3.exe would soon become a problem, since that probably hadn't h
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I hate brutalist architecture, but love the Win2K design language, for what should be fairly obvious reasons. I interact with software. I don't interact with architecture beyond the visuals. It can look as shit as it wants, but if it
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
When was the last time someone published a proper article that involved HCI that got even the slightest bit of attention? It's been dead for a long time as far as I can tell (last time it was alive was probably back when Win2K was rele
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> One recurring question that I keep asking myself is why UIs have to constantly change for the worse? So the designers have something to do and so the CEOs have something easy to think of when they need to 'shake things up'. T
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
No.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Yes. > Do you ever get confused navigating this website? No, because I've been browsing the web for a while and know that every web
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
It's not like the world was perfect before; it's just that it's gotten even worse . The lack of consistency has spread, to the point there barely is any.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Consistency. Even if you've never held a telephone receiver, if it means 'call' in one place, it's very likely to mean the same thing in another. We could be using random hieroglyphs to the same ends, but people seem to
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move. Even so, you could completely ignore it if you wanted to!
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> In the old days, we would have cried about 150MB memory usage idle as being bloat. I'm curious how much of those 150 are things that can't be boiled down to 'text', since that should be roughly the same size as on c
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I don't even think Thunderbird has gotten any significant speed improvements over the years (unlike Firefox). The only real reason it's gotten better on that front is that processors and I/O have gotten faster. Meanwhile, Out
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Big assumption there that they even have an end goal. Given that making Windows' market share is more or less impossible to make any bigger at this point (every human on earth has used Windows in some capacity by this point; there are
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I'm reminded of the Teams team making a comparison video between their old and new versions, which only went to show that the new version was also really slow (9 seconds). https://youtu.be/CT7nnXej2K4
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> My other personal anecdote is overhearing my father-in-law calling up his cable company to pay his bill, something that's easier and faster to do online, but for some reason he'd rather talk to a human. I've had the same
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
It's possible to have both internet maps and photo web sites, and not have unregulated* social media. *Or rampant or whatever other word you feel fits the current state of social media.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
I too prefer that, but i don't want to force that choice on othet people. CTRL+left click is ingrained in me now anyway.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Once more, capital is shown to have more power than people.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> In the statement the European Commission mentioned they "cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially". Why? They say that's thanks to "existing intellec
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Musicbee works fine in Wine (in my experience). It's annoying I have to use it that way, but I'm not expecting it to be ported any time soon.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Tell that to someone with 6000 hours in Rainbow Six Siege and plays it every single day.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
It's certainly possible, but it certainly ain't a happy path. If you have to do shift+F10, strategically disconnect your ethernet cable, or remember to tick a box when making your bootable USB to be able to make local account, som
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> It's amazing how things can seem great when looking back at them. I remember when Bush was President of the US and we made fun of him for being "stupid". Now looking back he seemed like a great chap. The good old days...
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Adobe. Games with kernel anti-cheat. Office 365 (I think this mostly applies to overly complex Excel spreadsheets with lots of macros? There are also a bunch of people here who say LibreOffice has bad UI, or that they (somehow?) have docume
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(websit...
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Firefox is little more than a uBlock Origin runtime for me, so extensions are pretty critical for me.
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
Same goes for phones (and by extention, fax). Since wire tapping is already illegal, it doesn't need to be secure (at least going by the law). I agree the laws need an update. I'd imagine a general 'common communication chann
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by Telaneo 4mo ago
> My understanding is that there's a thing called the "conduit exception" which basically says that if data is transiently passing through a channel and it's not being looked at, it's ok. But wherever the data la

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