pmk

joined 10 months ago
[–] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are they "bending" more than what they are legally required to? Their model is that they cannot provide content if it was end-to-end encrypted, even if they were forced they just can't. If someone pays for their account with a credit card that's information they can be forced to give. I haven't heard that they have gone beyond that and willingly given information. I don't think we can blame a company for not breaking the laws of the country they operate in.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What generic content do you think is missing most?

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you give some concrete examples? I can't really relate to what you call "default action".

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Brian Kernighan said: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I understand Ohm's law, I just throught the picture was yellow fisting green while the resistor (2.1 kΩ?) held her in place.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh... She's pushing her. It makes more sense now.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[–] pmk@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Well, that was just how it expressed itself for her. For me it might be saying "whoa, nice butt!" when someone with a nice butt walks by, because that is definitely what I am thinking but not saying. Someone else might have violent thoughts or whatever.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That lack of inhibitions can come back late in life. I've worked with many patients with frontal lobe impairment, and it always makes me wonder if the damage made them like this, or if this is what they were hiding before. Like, one old lady who always appeared so classy and proper, and then now all she talks about is poop. Every sentence is about pooping.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can we bridge this gap? At least to the point where users can give constructive feedback like "I wanted to do this thing, and searched for a way here and here. It took me hours to figure out how to do it. It would have been intuitive if..." Maybe we will have to be proactive about UX issues and have proper channels for this information?

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it false that Abbas Araghchi wrote "the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire"? Regardless of how the situation actually is, did he write that?

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd argue that "and" is the proper way to say "&" in english, even though it's just a fancy "et". The word ampersand is just a weird spelling of "and per se and", that is, "and in itself", as opposed to being part of listing things. Like: x,y,z, and &. The first and is just part of the grammar of listing things, the second is an item in that list.

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