aethertron

hace 11 díasdiscuss

There are good Shorts. One problem is a flick of the thumb scrolls you down to the next, then the next, and many are crap. The uncertainty about whether you're going to see crap or gold is part of what makes recommendation-based infinite scrolling addictive.

aethertron

hace 25 díasdiscuss

"A unique, memorable icon expresses your app’s or game’s purpose and personality and helps people recognize it at a glance."

"In iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, icons are square, and the system applies masking to produce rounded corners that precisely match the curvature of other rounded interface elements throughout the system and the bezel of the physical device itself."

Source: Apple https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

lol

aethertron

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

> "It actually expands notepad++ brand to mac"

> "My intention was to expand your brand."

Funny he thinks 'expanding' someone else's 'brand' is doing them a favour.

'I inflated your currency! There's more now, you should appreciate!'

aethertron

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Seems a bit silly, though. More economical to paint (or draw, or cut-and-paste, or whatever) one original, scan it, then print many copies.

aethertron

el año pasadodiscuss

Does my computer get involved when person A sends something illicit to person B? As a normal user on the internet, no. That's between them, and the law only deals with them. With certain decentralised anonymous systems, the answer is different. Now there are legal liability issues, at least.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

I would simply throttle those requests. Update comments once an hour. Or once a day. Not everything needs to be realtime.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

What's that thing? Much harm is attributed to Tinder and I don't know how to boil it all down to something that would be a positive for jobseeking.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

How large should Google have been allowed to get, before kicking it off the net?

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

A commons is indeed vulnerable to collapse though bad management. So it won't take care of itself, but needs deliberate effort and coordination to maintain. If we want to keep the open web, can't we put the necessary work in?

One challenge for web-enjoyers is it's not obvious in a consensus-making way where 'weak points' that need help are, and what's an acceptable loss (say: video on the web. We can post raw video on a webhost. It's expensive, so no one does. And most video content is crap, so who cares - let the platforms have that?)

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Where are you seeing signs of a web replacer? Native apps? Or big social media platforms built on the web, that replace the need (for mose users) to 'touch' the base web layers directly?

It would be sad if those bury the web and bury our rich, free open platform paradigm.

If a good decentralised open thing replaced it instead, cool.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Ted Nelson's critiques are good. Tech/Culture needs critics. Ted also tried being a culture-tech builder, and Xanadu just didn't work out. Despite several attempts, lots of resources spent...

Its ideas probably influenced Twitter. Because they were good ideas. Could've been independently discovered in the Platonic space of ideal tech-powered media too...

Yes, great social collaboration happens on Twitter. A bunch of inane squabbling and criminal threats too.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Forums should have separate layers for the object-level discussion, and meta-discussion. Then people can zoom into a peculiar grammatical detail that takes their fancy, but the main thread of a topic can keep going uninterrupted.

Then if a grammar discussion comes to a conclusion (as decided by the forum owner/editor-in-chief) it gets enforced on main threads thenceforth.

(my reply would go on the meta layer)

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Trademarks are there to protect consumers from dishonestly represented goods. If I buy some display tech marketed as "HDMI-compatible" but unlicensed, and it works with my other HDMI equipment (say, its maker reverse-engineered the HDMI spec), no one has been defrauded.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

It's up there for me. But I liked his Schild's Ladder, which plays with some of the same ideas, even more.

aethertron

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Even better: physical buttons that feel like buttons.

My lamp and my earphones have 'touch buttons'.

aethertron

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Facebook has user-run groups, so there are at least 3 levels of moderation/rules there:

  1. National law
  2. Facebook TOS  
  3. Group rules

But the legislative power, to to speak, at the group level is quite weak. They can further restrict according to some values, which is fine as it is. Freedom of association. They can't control the UI.

aethertron

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I am pro open web. I like the remix-ability of its tools. But walled gardens are easier to use, as they've invested in design, and designed for non-power-users. Open web enjoyers need to build better tools, and/or accept that it's going to be a smaller domain of the tech-savvy, or try to raise the technical abilities of the general public (perhaps via better tools?).

aethertron

hace 3 añosdiscuss

The advent of commenting did mitigate the lonesomeness of independent blogging. Then social media sapped away much of that social energy, returning blogging to its natural state of solitude. Bloggers can try to nurture community, but it's a hard task. Maybe the advent of reader-funded blogging will re-energise the practice. I hope it will.

Disqus seems good on paper. Seems something like Disqus is in a position to facilitate content discovery: it has ads so it could also add related or recommended links to other stuff in the ecosystem.

aethertron

hace 3 añosdiscuss

A personal site is a lonely place. That's why blogs, after an initial burst of creative energy, languish. People nowadays seeking online to fulfil their social inclinations go elsewhere, to the platforms better optimised to harness that social energy.

Another reason blogs have languished: discussions come to an end, a point of exhaustion. When everything that's there to be said, has been. Retreading old ground is not the same as posting original thoughts. Different qualities of people do these things.

aethertron

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