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My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by Mulderns »

corobo wrote: post #354
sodality2 wrote: post #24

I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well. So I went heavy-handed - I have a button on my desk that when I press it, my server's DNS server (through which all my devices and router resolve) begins rejecting requests to reddit, instagram, twitter, hackernews, news.google.com, etc. For the next two hours, there is nothing I can do outside of SSH'ing through my mobile device…

I keep setting things like this up (Current: Pi-hole) but my problem is I break through it virtually instantly because I'm the one that set it up (Current bypass: Log in to pihole, disable) Anyone know of a way that could thwart someone who's ~20 years in to computing? Doesn't have to be clever, just needs to be enough of a road block to not be worth the effort bypassing. If there's an exploit past the roadblock I'll…

I had a scheduled task to turn of my desk top at 21:50. then multiple tasks but they were subject to the whim of just disablin them. Turns out if it's a random moment between 21:30~22:30, I dont get the urge to disable it. but then it has to non nullable when it happens.

Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by eternityforest »

Infinite scroll is probably the worst thing about modern tech aside from curation algorithms.

It's truly horid. It makes devices harder to use for anything except mindless scrolling like as if your eyeballs are trash cans for the whole world to crap into.

Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by eternityforest »

mr_mitm wrote: post #338
janmarsal wrote: post #306

Thankfully my monkey brain is stronger than my lizard brain when it comes to things like infinite scroll, modals and other horrible UI features that nobody in their right mind should add to any website. Even just a couple of minutes of twitter usage makes me rage quit the whole website. Why do you pause my video when I scroll down it's just a politician speaking I don't need to see it only listen WHY YOU DO THIS? I'm…

This is something I also noticed a lot and find it equally infuriating. I can only guess why things are like this: you and most users on HN have at least a rudimentary understanding, often an expert understanding, of how a browser works under the hood. You know what a server is, what HTML is, what a browser history is, how cookies work, etc. But some manager wants to tap into the huge market of technically illiterate…

Endless scrolling is nothing like a sci-fi gadget. Grandma probably enjoys reading books. She knows what a page is.

Endless scrolling is an explicit rejection of skeuomorphism.

Old UIs were designed exactly in the way you describe. And old people liked them. The traditional desktop experience has never really been dethroned.

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Post by fmakunbound »

beagle3 wrote: post #273
fmakunbound wrote: post #267

I’m using a shock bracelet when accessing time wasters like Reddit and HN during “thinking. hours.” I can access them anytime but it comes with pain.

> I’m using a shock bracelet when accessing time w Serious? If so, did you build it yourself, or is it a commercial thing?

It’s a commercial thing. It’s called Pavlock.

Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by Freak_NL »

Lascaille wrote: post #440
Freak_NL wrote: post #413

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would get you exactly three glasses from a bottle. That's… not a normal pour of wine in any country. A standard size bottle of wine (750ml) serves five or six glasses, but the hospitality industry usually goes for five out of a bottle. 150ml (or 5oz) is what you can reasonably expect in restaurants and bars for the average glass of wine. Do you honestly pour a third of a bottle at a time for wine?

250ml is a standard UK measure of wine. 175ml and 125ml are also UK standards but in a lot of places if you order wine by the glass you'll get 250ml.

In the UK that is a 'large' glass of wine. The NHS¹ calls 175ml 'standard' (slightly more than usual) and 125ml 'small'.

For the UK this is all not that relevant, because there the concept of the 'alcohol unit' is much more ingrained and used in public health campaigns, so you would work with those. E.g., with the recommended upper limit of 14 alcohol units, you could drink a standard glass of wine (175ml) six days of the week (12.6 units), or have a bottle of lager six days of the week and a pint of Guinness on Saturday (13.2 units).

1: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/calculating-alc...

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Post by davemac8 »

Root_Denied wrote: post #420
Forgeties79 wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m 90% sure I’ll be done with Reddit if they ditch old view. It’s honestly that integral for me lol

The old.reddit redirect and RES are really the only reason I've continued to use the site at all. With a well curated selection of subreddits (and removal of a lot of the "default" ones) it's actually really good. My brain naturally starts going "these links aren't really interesting anymore" after 100-200 links, and I task switch as a result.

If you are on iOS, the Apollo app makes Reddit a joy to use again.

Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by Forgeties79 »

Root_Denied wrote: post #420
Forgeties79 wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m 90% sure I’ll be done with Reddit if they ditch old view. It’s honestly that integral for me lol

The old.reddit redirect and RES are really the only reason I've continued to use the site at all. With a well curated selection of subreddits (and removal of a lot of the "default" ones) it's actually really good. My brain naturally starts going "these links aren't really interesting anymore" after 100-200 links, and I task switch as a result.

Same. I have like 3 default subs subbed and a few really, really niche ones.

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Post by sodality2 »

ninesnines wrote: post #345
sodality2 wrote: post #24

I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well. So I went heavy-handed - I have a button on my desk that when I press it, my server's DNS server (through which all my devices and router resolve) begins rejecting requests to reddit, instagram, twitter, hackernews, news.google.com, etc. For the next two hours, there is nothing I can do outside of SSH'ing through my mobile device…

How do you implement this? I am a relatively new programmer and would love to to implement this on my own phone/ workspace

It's essentially just an AdGuard Home installation on my VPS, which is a DNS server that all of my devices use as the DNS server. I then added all the blocked URLs and blocked them all in the web interface, and viewed the network request that it made in the browser console. Then, I unblocked them. For each one of these saved network requests, I saved the corresponding "copy as CURL" command. When the button is pressed, the "blocked" command is called; after waiting 7200 seconds, the "unblock" command is called. This just calls the server to not resolve those URLs.
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