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by apostacy 8y ago
I keenly remember how 80% of websites wouldn't render properly in Firefox because they were all designed for IE6. You had no choice but to replicate the rendering bugs in IE6 if you wanted webpages to look good. But Firefox refused. Th
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by apostacy 8y ago
How could including support for a technology possibly harm users? What is with this obsession with scrubbing any features that are not "popular" enough? This mindset comes from for-profit companies. It makes sense for them to obse
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by apostacy 8y ago
I have to say, I find this article highly insulting. People who are skeptical of trends being pushed in the technology ecosystem are not the same as anti-vaxxers. Frankly, people who think that blindly following the edicts of self intereste
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by apostacy 8y ago
You COULD play any YouTube video in the background on Chrome on iOS until about a year ago. YouTube specifically sabotaged their site by registering hooks that stop the video when the browser loses focus, so you can't even view somethi
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by apostacy 8y ago
Not really. The truth is more that Google lured independent content creators to their platform with monetization, and is now driving them away by gasligighting them with obscure and impossible to follow rules, to make room for cable tv news
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by apostacy 8y ago
Whoa, thank you for posting that! I had given up trying to solve that problem. I thought the only way to prevent it without jailbreaking it was to use an enterprise account to make a new provisioning profile. Also, when my iPad ran out of s
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by apostacy 8y ago
You are exactly right. People used to be excited about updates. And if they didn't work out, you could roll them back. It's ludicrous that somehow everyone forgot how to do that now. And it's not just a technical problem, it&
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by apostacy 8y ago
> iOS devices do not update on their own without any user intervention. In order to schedule an overnight upgrade, you have to agree to it then enter your PIN... iOS devices will download a 800M update package over and over again, and
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by apostacy 8y ago
First of all, this iPad was almost untouched for years, she only got it to use this one particular presentation software, so it was in near mint condition. Secondly, I've seen this happen to other iOS devices, in a clear progression.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Permanently slowing my device down = Making my device less usable = obsolete I could have gotten many more years of usability out of it, but they nearly bricked it with an update that I could not say no to.
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by apostacy 8y ago
It would be obsolete because it would no longer be as usable. This has happened to several phones, and especially Apple devices. At least when Microsoft forced people to update to Windows 10, you could still install Windows 7 later if you r
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by apostacy 8y ago
The "last" update that my Mom's iPad got rendered it virtually unusable. Apple support told her to just buy a new iPad. iOS10 is far too slow for her iPad 4, to the point where the onscreen keyboard lags severely. And many of
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by apostacy 8y ago
Apple and Google will coerce you into installing updates that irreversibly remove functionality, so think describing the fuses as being "blown" is the best word to use, since it implies damage being done to your device. I can at l
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by apostacy 9y ago
But this is all being directly facilitated by YouTube. YouTube is removing videos from even having the opportunity to be monetized. This i before the advertisers would even be involved. The example that is often cited, is that YouTube'
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by apostacy 9y ago
> I'm a little confused by what people mean when they say "monetized". > 1. Are you saying that Youtube showed more ads with one group over the other? > 2. Are you saying that because Youtube puts more ads on CNN vid
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by apostacy 9y ago
> They aren't, and there is a high-touch, humans in the loop process to avoid their sensitivity getting stepped on in traditional advertising markets like TV. Monetization has nothing to do with branding. Nothing. Advertisers do not
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by apostacy 9y ago
Please, can we stop saying that this is about advertisers not wanting to be associated with certain things? It is clearly not true. I really hate to post these links three times in one thread, but I feel it really drives home my point. This
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by apostacy 9y ago
The point that is being made, is that when advertisers claim that they don't want to be associated with certain topics, that is a lie. The truth is that they don't want to be associated with certain people. As I posted in a previo
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by apostacy 9y ago
I think content creators are owed not being gas-lighted by Youtube. Whatever you may think of these rules, the truth is that these will only be applied selectively, and then YouTube will deny that they are applying them selectively, and lie
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by apostacy 9y ago
This kind of dishonest design is all too common now. If you pull back the curtain, you can find all sorts of other ways that the user is gaslighted. One example is that the youtube mobile website will prevent you from playing a video in the
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by apostacy 9y ago
Have you ever tried preventing an extension from being updated (you can't) or rolling back an update? Go ahead and try. I agree that 98% of the time it is fine, but that is not the point. I want to have control over the software that r
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by apostacy 9y ago
I've had some bad experiences with Eye Buy Direct. But the thing that really scared me was that after a few months of wearing their glasses, my vision would start to go blurry for a few seconds at a time, and I would feel intense tingl
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by apostacy 9y ago
I really, really wish there was more discussion of this. This is something that is very present in my life and the lives of people I have worked with, but nobody talks about it. The two things that really stick out for me are the existentia
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by apostacy 9y ago
I don't think those are valid comparisons. And I running overnight buses can be much more expensive. Think about the ratio of passengers and energy per driver. And also, providing all night service adds to the value of working in the c
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by apostacy 9y ago
They have been doing extensive maintenance on the F near me and shutting it down every weekend. I can either take the shuttle bus, but it's usually faster to walk 20 minutes to the B/Q line. They are also doing massive upgrades an
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by apostacy 9y ago
It's complicated. There's different sources of revenue for a system like that. Does Greyhound increase it's fare if the roads need to be repaved? The funding for the tracks and the other parts of the system come from differen
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by apostacy 9y ago
> 2) Cut service overnight to increase maintenance times Absolutely not! Overnight service is an essential element of the NYC subway system. It's what makes the subway go from being a convenience to being a utility. Knowing that I
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by apostacy 9y ago
This is why I am so glad I did not update to High Sierra. It obviously is not ready.
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by apostacy 9y ago
If javascript is allowed to persist in the background, read the keydown and cursor location, and keep a socket open back to the server, then that won't matter. Personally, I do not understand why this has become acceptable, if all I am
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by apostacy 9y ago
After all the trouble you went through, would you really call your experience an "upgrade"? It sounds like you are barely tolerating upgrades. In terms of user experience, Apple has terrible UX because they impose on their users s

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