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Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? I'm not defending what happened to you. It's surprising to me that even someone like Jimmy Wales, who pioneered the most impactful knowledge-sharing project in the world, is vilified by some people.
Even legendary names are just humans. TBL and his support for DRM. LT's notorious personality. Page & Schmidt and completely losing sight of the helpfulness they started from.
Worship / revere / appreciate no one. Filter their good, acknowledge their bad, find a path past them to something better, and know you'll probably be corrupted by something along the way unless you somehow transcend your own DNA.
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There's the option of simply not visiting the webpages that offend you. I'm not going to change my writing / guide style just because some people outside of those gaming communities don't like the way they work. Its one thing if you were the target audience, its a totally different thing if you're just a meta-commentator talking about the internet in general.
Maybe that explains your results. Have a behaviour someone dislikes, they don't revisit, and thus don’t answer your survey question
The feedback I get is like "That's a confusing paragraph", or "That's a bad strategy. You should be writing about X instead".
No one actually cares about the auto-playing videos, unless they're not working. (On page X on Safari, that video doesn't seem to be working was one complaint I got... and then I had to transcode my MP4 settings to get it working there).
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Isn't most (all?) of the content on fandom.com under a Creative Commons license? Is there anything stopping someone from scraping all the content and forking the projects, giving it a more humane and user-friendly interface?
I’m currently working with a number of folks to fork a wiki off of Fandom. Forking the content itself is easy but good luck beating Fandom on a search page.
Although checking the AO3 wiki page, man I didn't expect them to have hosting costs that high.
Do you have a project site? I might be interested in contributing.
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Did you solicit feedback on auto playing or videos in general? Your comment seems to say 2 while advocating for 1. On your website your videos don't auto play for me on mobile, by the way, which I found convenient because it's tap on tap off. It's x-overflowing the videos though, which is inconvenient.
>Did you solicit feedback on auto playing or videos in general? Of course they didn't. If they did, the site wouldn't work the way it works now. It's just another example of "I know better than my users" attitude.
Funny, everyone likes the autoplaying GIFs in this other context, but they hate it here.
Off topic, but I've never seen mastodon linked like this before on HN. Interesting this this might've normally been a link to a tweet.
I have a bad feeling about these "invite only" servers though. They are remaking the blue checkmarks of twitter in an even less-transparent way.
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I don't even think it's technically possible. Unless a bluetooth device is in discoverable mode it shouldn't be possible to identify them.
I interviewed at a place that managed traffic light behavior and they had a system to evaluate traffic efficiency by watching traffic flow through the whole area, tracked using ambient Bluetooth signals from phones.
What does this mean? Are they just measuring radio power levels in the 2.4GHz spectrum, and using that to determine whether a car is there or not? Or are they actually somehow capturing bluetooth signals, decoding them, and extracting identifiers (eg. MAC) from them?
Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
Hosted mediawiki isn't cheap, so I don't see another player coming into the market. The consolidation of gamepedia into "Fandom" is the worst in this respect.
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Many of our parents had better lives overall despite less education, fewer hours worked, shorter commuting distance, etc. Yes, tech is better than most other jobs, but most tech jobs just give you the middle class life many people had 20-30 years ago (aside from the tech gadgets that didn’t exist 20-30 years ago that even the poor have now). In terms of large expenses and free time rather than gadgets, we’re no bette…
I work in education, so not highly paid, bought a car and a house by myself, and easily manage to save £500/month. I just don't waste my money on stupid things like paying other people to make my sandwiches and drinks, or gadgets that are priced as 10x what they cost to make.