self_awareness

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Comment · 1 hour ago
Why do you think they care what anyone wants.

They are in the dark UX pattern world, squeezing views per second, selling ads. That's all.

The "we give our users something valuable and they will give us profit in return" approach is over since a long time.

Comment · 5 days ago
I also think that websites should be printable, and years ago I've made an effort to make my website printable. I've lost my motivation to maintain the website, but printint still works.
Comment · 17 days ago
"Not sure how to use it"? What do you mean? Where's the complication? What are you having problems with?
Comment · 17 days ago
Why this is attractive? Honest question, I'd like to know but I can't figure out why. (Yes, I would be a horrible salesman)

Why someone spends time on making this, and why someone would want to spend time using this?

Much more advanced software is available for free for all platforms. Why not just go and install LibreOffice?

Comment · 17 days ago
It works, but the CPU utilisation is huge even if it's idle, and after it allocated 40 gb of RAM on my laptop once, I've stopped using it.
Comment · 18 days ago
Anyone brave enough to write a webapp in C++?
Comment · 18 days ago
This. GetRight also integrated with browsers, so clicking a link went straight to GetRight.

Or FileZilla. Or Flashget.

We had this in the 2000's.

And we lost it!

Comment · 20 days ago
Piercing is one big perforation.

Tatoo is a process of continuous small perforations sometimes for many hours.

Comment · 20 days ago
You assume you will be able to stop using them.

If they will be popular, and made inconvenient, you could be forced to use them. Like 2FA in corporate environments; it's forced and you can't do anything else than to put a code every time you login somewhere.

Comment · 20 days ago
Thank you doctor Gray.
Comment · 20 days ago
Lol. Allow to violently perforate your skin with a set of sharp needles to permanently inject a pigment that can be hidden.

Just wear a baby skin sticker!

Comment · 20 days ago
TOTP are stored on the server without any salts. You get TOTP key, you can generate TOTP codes.

So TOTP only targets the situation that user account is compromised. It doesn't help you if the server gets compromised.

Comment · 25 days ago
Maybe if you could spend some time defining the "feels right" aspect, this would go away.

I often find myself in situations where someone wants to break the UI I like, because they're used to something else.

It seems that most of the time, "feels right" just means "it works like I'm used to in other software". So: GMail, Outlook, whatever. Which is sad.

I wonder how would you react to "TheBat!" or Pegasus Mail?

Comment · 1 month ago
> Ok, but first I have to tell you about Dick Pick. Literally his name. Richard A. Pick. Went by Dick.

How Americans keep straight face in such situations?

Comment · 1 month ago
Because vscode needs to run language servers on the target machine as well.

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