I had thought I’d seen this bug reemerge. I wasn’t affected by it last time, but I’d noticed I was seeing the loading splash screens of most of my installed apps a lot more often than I used to.
“Hope you didn’t like multitasking too much.”
“In using the web, and listening to “12 days of Christmas” my mince pie addled brain decided it would be neat to do a list of things that annoyed me that were clearly crappy in web products. Except I crapped out at 10… so, yeah, there’s 10.
Hence my list of faux pas, mashed with christmas, thus fau…”
I’m in agreement with 100% of these; items one, three, four, and five are my personal biggest pet peeves that I come across on the web. I also can’t believe four, six, seven, and nine are still a thing so many years after they were first identified as user-hostile.
This attached quote feels particularly revealing about a worldview at Google. Basically: "invasions of privacy and mass data collection are fine, so long as they’re dressed up as ‘useful’ to the consumer."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-11/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in
“Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes: Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy …”
Fixing a smashed iPhone 7 screen is a saga and a half, but I got there in the end thanks to an @iFixit guide, tiny screwdrivers, and a hot water bottle 👍
Making a start on wrapping presents. All of the wrappings are 100% recycled and recyclable (and rather adorable, if I do say so myself…)
“Factchecking has become politicised during this election campaign. But what does it really add to public awareness?”
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