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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.…

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 d…

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 e…

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.

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 al…

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 o…

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 ju…

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 ob…

> 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 ap…

>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…

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-r…

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…

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 scre…

>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 c…