RheingoldRiver

joined 1 year ago
[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

It's pretty bad because you need to write for multilingual readers, who may not understand the colloquialism "were just that" & can have a difficult time parsing what the pronoun "that" refers to in such a nonstandard and nonlinear sentence.

If this sentence were part of a novel that already has elaborate prose, it would be fine, but in something designed to inform people on the internet you have to keep in mind how varied your audience is.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

You could make a new filetype, default new versions to it, & not break compatibility. Wouldn't do anything for existing workbooks, and keep xlsx an option, but "it would break compatibility" is not a be-all end-all argument against this.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought they disabled sending mobi files last August? As in, August 2022? Did they postpone it?

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh? Didn't they start this like last month? Or is this not the "get money from your contributions" thing?

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

holy shit, I've been reading this url as "sh, it just works" for MONTHS and was super ??? about what it meant. I only just now realized it's "shit just works" and......oh. that makes a lot of sense.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I'm not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it's just first name.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

huh, whatever that is, doesn't federate to kbin

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you use the swiping function of it? I've found that to be TERRIBLE at "prediction based on context" e.g. understanding if I want "if" or "of" it does the one that doesn't make sense in context. and it doesn't understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

 

Basically, I want to be lazy and be able to click "subscribe" on any magazine/lemmy version of magazine in the threadiverse without manually changing the url to kbin.social/m/whatever@blah.tld.

Has anyone written such a browser extension already? (And if so does it support Firefox?)

 

The text is now completely different!

#kbinMeta

 

As title, basically duplicate /r/hackernews but as /m/hackernews

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