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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by floatboth » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:02 AM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #47

alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

Why not just let a text area do its job? Why do you need a special "text editor"?

most users would like to decorate their posts with bold underline color whatever and would not want to learn markdown

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by floatboth » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:13 AM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #17

znpy wrote: post #3

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.

> the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist

Ha ha ha.

Tumblr is the place where you get followed (sometimes even messaged) by porn spam accounts regularly.

This problem is so infamous that even some ARG creators literally used the "spam bot aesthetic" (but with weirder messages) to pull people in: https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by rawling » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

formerly_proven wrote: post #54

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Del…

My favourite W10 bug is that if I maximise an Office window and then try to close it by mashing the mouse right into the top right corner, it actually clicks past and closes whatever window is underneath.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by egoisticalgoat » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

efdee wrote: post #146

A long, long time ago, I "broke" my dad's MS Works word processor. The D key just stopped working. Turns out that, during my fiddling around, I had created a macro that did nothing and had 'D' as a hotkey. It was the first time ever that I had "broken the computer".

That's something I discovered the other day on my pc. At some point during the last year or so, I accidentally assigned a macro to the C key that did nothing but press the C key, so it was pretty much impossible to notice during normal use, except that holding it down behaved out of the ordinary.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by ourcat » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 11:04 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #213

js2 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

why do capital letters even still exist? what’s the point really?

Here's an interesting article on where and why they get commonly used in legal documents and contracts.

https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/all-caps-legal-agreements/

There are also theories out there about why our names appear in all-caps on government documents, relating to the concept of treating an individual as a 'corporation'.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by black_puppydog » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 11:12 AM UTC

seph-reed wrote: post #189

black_puppydog wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just seems to happen more often in JS... :|

It's an entry level programming language with unprecedented ease of publishing and access. It would be extremely impressive if it didn't .

Well then we agree I guess... I'm not impressed. :D

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by TonyTrapp » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 11:22 AM UTC

I really wish websites would stop using single-letter hotkeys. I regularly accidentally mute people on Twitter because the mute hotkey is in the position where my fingers naturally rest when using a trackpoint for scrolling. I think there was a guidelines (from W3C or WHATWG probably) that such hotkeys should not be used or at least should be turned off by default, but I guess noone sticks to those recommendations these days.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dugmartin » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 11:57 AM UTC

macintux wrote: post #162

athorax wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.

I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control. Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.

To wake up my computers I play "shave and a haircut, two bits" with my shift keys, alternating between them.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by da_chicken » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 12:07 PM UTC

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

I have actually seen this before. It wasn't the P key; it was a different key. X or C, I think. However, the symptoms otherwise seem to match. I don't remember if we tried a second keyboard, but we definitely tried the on-screen keyboard and were confused when it, too, didn't work.

The only things we could guess were something related to the Windows Search, Cortana, or telemetry services. Unfortunately, it's been since the early days of Win10 since that happened so I don't remember any other details. We also had to physically restart the system to fix the problem.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by drewzero1 » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 12:29 PM UTC

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

Wow, I'd nearly forgotten about this. The exact same thing happened to my sister-in-law a few years ago when she visited with her Windows 10 laptop and couldn't connect to our wifi.

Eventually we figured out the 'p' (or maybe it was 'n'? Can't remember for sure.) in the password was getting skipped, but it was hard to tell with the password masking. Tried a USB keyboard, onscreen keyboard, same thing. I think we might have given up and let her use one of our computers at that point. It was (and still is) very confusing.