Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an eggcorn for "layman's".
What does eggcorn mean?
That's a typo.
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does eggcorn mean?
That's a typo.
It's not a typo. Although it's really more of a routine malapropism than an eggcorn, since it's nonsensical.
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#153But when the Vancouver PD are beating you up, you wont have time to load the page to locate the quick escape button.
That's funny, right before this I was just reading about how some idiot I knew from back in the day beat the shit out of some stranger on the SkyTrain for his headphones. Maybe it's time to realize how fucked Vancouver is and that the cops aren't the problem
Cops are always the problem everywhere.
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It asks you in first-time set up if you want it. 'Yes' might be the default selected option, but it's not like opting out requires you knowing about it and going looking for it.
Do you really have faith this would be disabled by choice if you tried it on a random android phone? If they haven't already disabled it in rage after finding it on accident, I'm pretty sure that person would be terrified upon you making them aware. The first-time setup process isn't consistent across devices and never will be. You can try to argue this down and reason about it all you want, but it's still a bad defa…
I don't know, I'm just saying that's how I know about it, seeing it in setup and disabling it. I've no particular interest or stake in 'arguing it down and reasoning about it'.
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Indeed this is mostly performative by the police because the user would switch apps, turn off the phone screen, or any other easier way as you describe.
So it works on desktop but it’s performative? I understand that it’s cool to be anti-police now but that’s some really strange reasoning.
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Re: Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
#156I've implemented quick exit/escape buttons for a few organisations over the years and have spent a bit of time thinking about the limitations. This pattern is definitely better than most and it is refreshing seeing they put some resources into it. In my professional experience, organisations often chose the "a link to another site like google is fine" option to save money and time while still getting to boast about t…
It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iPhone correctly. When I click on the Back button (from weather.gc.ca), it goes back to the Vancouver PD site. Therefore I do not think that it is built well. The other site someone mentioned ( https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ ) doesn't have that issue.
On that page, it doesn't work reliably in Firefox on Android. If the triple-tap is performed on text, it often just selects the word without navigating away.