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New comment by Telaneo in "Issue links now open in a popup"

Telaneo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:33:32 +0000

I'm not sure that's all that much better. I'm not sure what's worse. There not being QA, or things just flowing right through QA. I guess still the former, since when there is QA, it's probably still filtering off some of the insanity. It's just that it's never seen by the greater public.

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Telaneo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:14:05 +0000

> Utterly insane that this went through QA.

Big assumption you're making there.

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Telaneo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:41:12 +0000

Respect has to be earned, and I don't think anyone (within margin of error) with UX in their job title has earned it. Most of their work consists of shuffling design elements around for its own sake. Sometimes they strike gold (or at least silver or copper), but it never feels like that's done because they target a better design, rather they stumble upon it while making designs whose goal is to be different.

You have to go back to when it was called HIC (Human–computer interaction) to find people who weren't completely brain-dead or ad-pilled when it came to design, did actual work and research trying to make better designs, and thus were at least somewhat respected.

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Telaneo — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:43:34 +0000

A DAS device will typically hold more than one hard drive. But yes, it's a more fancy version of having four seperate external hard drives hooked up.

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Telaneo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:19:55 +0000

The only way I can read that is 'setting a cap does nothing' but reading that tells me that it only turns on email notifications. Not any better really. It's simply not a cap. It's an alarm.

New comment by Telaneo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

Telaneo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:10:52 +0000

People have different preferences. What's to be confused about that?

I share their preference. The cashier saves me no real amount of work. The difference between putting my groceries on a conveyor belt and having a cashier scan them, and me myself dragging my groceries past a scanner, is somewhere between minimal and non-existent. The amount of work I perform is functionally the same. The biggest difference is in the amount of time I spend, where the win clearly goes to the self-checkout, since then I can bag my groceries at the same time as I scan them, and there's more self-checkouts available than normal ones, meaning I spend less time queuing if I use those.

New comment by Telaneo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

Telaneo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:49:45 +0000

You're blaming the store, which I agree with. My question was whether you could blame the GP, or the consumer in general. They have little control over how much the staff of their grocery store is being paid.

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Telaneo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:57:51 +0000

Given that every store (and damn near every establishment for that matter) has been understaffed for the past 20-ish years, can you blame them?

New comment by Telaneo in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

Telaneo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:33:00 +0000

My first reaction to this was that someone made a mistake somewhere. They saw the game title and the front page, assumed it was a porn game due to it's rating or whatever, or made some other assumption that doesn't hold up to even cursory research, which would confirm the game's had two releases, the former of which has 100k+ reviews on Steam, and the second of which was even physical on consoles.

But no. The post mentions it was pulled due to a TOS violation with regards to its depiction of 'sensitive themes'. That would seem to suggest the problem lies with the game depicting suicide or just its other depictions of mental health problems in general. It could still be a mistake, in that they researched it to the point that they figured out it was dealing with those themes, but not to the point of figuring out it's a successful darling of a game. This seems rather unlikely.

Either way, fact that it's even possible to pull from the store, several months after it was first published without issue, without at least having a chat with the publisher first, is worrying.

New comment by Telaneo in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

Telaneo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:03:56 +0000

One the one hand, yes. On the other hand, it's unreasonable to have to wait 5 minutes to download a 1 MB government PDF form. I guess they too can be optimised so they aren't all that bad, but they often aren't. What can't be optimised is having to upload an image of that form with a signature on it, or whatever else it may be.

New comment by Telaneo in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

Telaneo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:57:16 +0000

Thanks. I hate it.

New comment by Telaneo in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

Telaneo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:50:44 +0000

Reading plain EPUBs on whatever device has been a fairly good experience in my opinion, given that that is more or less just going to be the physical book in digital form. Then again, the only way I think people actually find those are through free online downloads and not any actual store front.

Given the choice between 'tainted digital experience' and 'plain analogue experience', I can't blame consumers for choosing the latter, but the 'plain digital experience' does exist. It's just not sold.

I wonder how long it's going to take before the analogue experience becomes tainted. It's, sadly, not unthinkable to put ads in books. I guess there's little point from the perspective of the relevant people if they can't make those ads personalised, but maybe if the enshittification goes far enough, it could happen.

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Telaneo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:50:16 +0000

For some non-zero percent of ads, I can understand this point of view. But most ads aren't funny, nor are they about new or interesting things. Maybe me and my friends are compleatly out of touch, but when I ask, they struggle to think of ads that have made any positive impression that aren't 10 years old by this point.

I've heard of people who consider all the generic ads out there to be compelling and will buy just the worst garbage out there because their brain is wired that way. To them, I'd consider those ads as psychological and economic abuse.

New comment by Telaneo in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

Telaneo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:20:13 +0000

I like HTML and will use it for my own projects, but I cannot send pure HTML to someone who's not a into tech, so to speak, and expect them to actually read it. It doesn't take much CSS to make a readable web page, and I actually kind of like the barebones no-CSS HTML style, but for many others, that style reads as 'this page is broken'. I guess I can write all my styles inline or in the header, but that's a big ask when I never do that normally.

Markdown though, especially if you're not using way too much of it and mostly using it sensibly, just to give your document some structure, can be read as plain text by pretty much everyone, and will be implicitly understood. Sure, they might not understand the exact different between a word with asterisks on either side and one with underscores on either side, but they'll get that you meant to emphasise that work. They'll also understand a list shown with asterisks, while

tags will get too verbose for them and clutter the actual content (I don't really care, but I get why they do).

New comment by Telaneo in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

Telaneo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:26:38 +0000

What insentives can an app maker provde to turn the structure around?

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Telaneo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:59:50 +0000

/s?

New comment by Telaneo in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

Telaneo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:14:38 +0000

I know.

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Telaneo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:57:06 +0000

Physician, heal thyself. The cobbler's children have no shoes.

New comment by Telaneo in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

Telaneo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:54:07 +0000

Now imagine if that error said 'Error 11: A memory error occurred. Your program may be faulty or misbehaving. Contact your software vendor." That's miles better than what most things provide.

That one's a good example of why these things are hard. The user could have been running 5 different programs, any one of which caused this error, and MacOS can't point the finger at anyone. Not to mention that the problem could be MacOS itself, or the user being a dunce who misconfigured something. I'm not sure if that error can occur without 3rd party software being involved, but if it can, then that error message might need to be even more vague, helping the user even less. Not to mention it could just be faulty hardware.

A paper manual offering troubleshooting steps for each error would be really helpful. Just 'Error 11. Consult your manual.' and the manual actually telling you what the problem could be is also miles better than what we usually get.

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Telaneo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:11:19 +0000

This is because error messages have historically been bad, unintelligible, un-actionable, and hard to separate from soft errors that don't actually matter.

'Segmentation fault. Core dumped.'

'Non-fatal error detected. Contact support.'

'An error occurred.'

'An illegal operation was performed.'

'Error 92: Insufficient marmalade.'

'Saving this image as a JPG will not preserve the transparency used in the image. Save anyway?'

'Saving as .docx is not recommended because blah-blah-blah never gonna give you up nor let you down.'

I can't blame any normal user from either not understanding nor giving a shit about any of these. If we'd given users actionable information from day 1, we'd be in a very different world. Even just 'Error 852: Couldn't reach the network. Check your connection to the internet.' does help those who haven't turned of their brains entirely yet.