Category: Technology
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This is NOT helping me write
“Autocorrect” is getting more and more dangerous. I’m realizing now that we’re in this age of forced AI that after decades of writing fiction I have developed an expert level of finding normal typos and errors when I’m rereading/editing my work. Now autocorrect is making stupid dumb and WRONG changes that slip by me because…
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Free Speech for Some
Fucking Tech Bros. They bleat about free speech and how tech is a meritocracy and they are different trust them while they make billions off the misery they cause. Centralized social media with no brakes is a globally destructive disaster that harms anyone who isn’t a straight white cis-male or a social elite in their…
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Facebook is a POS
Facebook has spent the last 15 years preventing users from connecting with other users or other entities (such as bands and celebrities etc) and now they’re creating fake users (who are NOT identified as fake as far as I can tell) and shoving this slop into the timelines of real users. From all reports, FB…
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Blocked
If you send me an email that has no text to remind me who the f you are, you get blocked. Maybe I did subscribe or for some reason want to hear from you. But who remembers every single vendor or service they’re okay with? I sure don’t. Don’t put your information in images that…
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Privacy in the Rear View Mirror
How on earth are users supposed to figure out what privacy settings have been set or enabled by default after an app or OS update? The settings are scattered all over the place and there is no effing way a normal person can keep track or even know about a new setting. Eff that, that’s…
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When UX is Hostile on Purpose
Back in the days when I was a web developer the community was all about the best design for users, use of white space, typography, what kind of menu, the best navigation scheme, how to make sure visitors could use your site without getting lost, getting eyestrain, or giving up. Today, most companies seems to…