plz1

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[–] plz1@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is that a Mario Kart joke?

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My comment was asking along the lines of companies not giving the employee the choice in having taxes deducted or not.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Try telling that to basically any decently sized company.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They should allow a backdoor, but only on UK Parliament members' phones.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's slightly different. You aren't paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don't have it backed up locally.

Contrast that to "buying a digital movie". You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it's made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can't download it in a usable format independent of the platform "selling" it, I didn't buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.

I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it's like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it's yours, period. If you lease it, it's not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don't truly own it until after that. The media companies just don't offer the "buy out the ease, later", part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I came in to ask how you ran cable above a ceiling, hehe.

I have 1st floor rooms I have always wanted ceiling fixtures in, but noooooo, I had to buy a two story house.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:

  1. The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
  2. The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
  3. The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.
[–] plz1@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Even that video would be brushed off as "fake news" or a "deep fake".

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

YAML whitespace is cursed

YAML is cursed and shouldn't exist. I will die on that hill, with either 4 whitespaces or a tab to back me up.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you don't own the storage, you don't own the content. You're just renting it.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they can start with the actual unedited video.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.

 

I think this community is appropriate for this topic, since this solution is being rolled out to combat AI scraping of websites.

I don't really understand why the collective agreement is "it is better than captchas would be", when you didn't need to pass a captcha just to view a website in the first place. Why are people not more pissed off about every website suddenly requiring this laggy, sometimes actually a captcha anyways (checkbox to prove you are human) solution slowing down visits to websites?

And why can't CloudFlare offer some way for us lowly non-AI's to prove we're human, once, for our entire web experience, versus on. every. damned. website. one. at. a. time?

I counted, and I hit this turnstile solution on 28 website visits today, and sometimes more than once on the same site. That's minutes of my life I don't get back, and likely hours to days over the course of a year.

There has to be a better way...

/rant

 

Been down for a couple hours for me.

 

For me, it's a light grey color and the text is white, even when CarPlay is set to always use dark mode. This is hard for me to read, but I can't find any way to change this. I'd rather just have an actual dark background when in dark mode.

 

For folks using multiple accounts, it feels a bit buried to go from content in one to the other. It would be nice if the number of taps to go between different accounts was reduced by a few.

 

I don’t know if this is the app, instance issues, or both, but I’ve found this feature to not work well

 

I think it would be cool to be able to swipe left/right when viewing an image post from the feed or in a community and be able to go from post to post like a slideshow.

 

Reproduced in latest release today. When I swipe left on a comment in Inbox to reply to it, it just hides it. If I go to the All view and re-swipe left, it'll open the reply dialog. So it appears to only be a bug if you have the view set to Unread.

 

Build 72 seems to be the nail in the coffin for font scaling. All text is tiny now. It's there any plan to support accessibility?

 

Some communities will have a deluge of posts, which tend to astroturf the main feed. I loved the feature in Apollo that let us mark a sub as a favorite to make it easy to get to, without subscribing to it and having it hit the main feed.

 

Can we get the option to put the voting buttons on the left? Also, view on ipad is truncating the titles when there is plenty of room.

 

In dark mode, when viewing the voting buttons, could we get higher-contrast coloring when a post is voted on? The upvote coloring is nearly impossible for me to distinguish from the default un-voted color (light blue vs. grey). I'm using the darkly theme, but darkly red has the same challenge. Using browser extensions to override this is only an option for desktop-only usage.

Sincerely, a visually-challenged Reddit refugee.

 

In dark mode, when viewing the voting buttons, could we get higher-contrast coloring when a post is voted on? The upvote coloring is nearly impossible for me to distinguish from the default un-voted color (light blue vs. grey). I'm using the darkly theme, but darkly red has the same challenge. Using browser extensions to override this is only an option for desktop-only usage.

Sincerely, a visually-challenged Reddit refugee.

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