SanctimoniousApe
@SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 1 day ago:
Can’t wait for the seemingly inevitable “woke rebrand” attacks…
- Comment on Back to back back jokes 1 day ago:
How many young’ns ain’t gettin’ this?
Sorry - you have to be this old to get this joke.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 2 days ago:
Agreed, and that’s what’s frustrating the shit out of me over where things have been going for several years now.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 3 days ago:
I’m aware why it happens, but if even you are aware then that means you know what I’ve said is true. As such, it seems you also should know that you’re not designing for the best interface, but just the one that the largest proportion of the masses are able to use well enough to win out over alternatives in a quest for market domination. Dumbed-down wins in the numbers game, but isn’t necessarily the “best” interface.
Another part in the numbers game is cost. As someone reminded me recently, the “best” solutions rarely win over ones that are “good enough,” but cost the end users less. Technology’s history is veritably littered with superior options that lost out against their competition because of such cost differences.
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 3 days ago:
Speaking from personal experience, that person is very likely depressed AF. Tthe bubbly person you see at work is her putting on a brave face to get through the day without making things worse by putting people off in showing her real self. The “jokes” are a subconscious attempt to see if anyone actually cares enough about her as a person to pick up on the hints she’s dropping. If you approach her about it directly, tho, she’ll put up a wall because she doesn’t know your true intent - do you actually care, or are you gonna make her life worse by doing something like trying to have her committed?
If you truly care enough to get involved, and try to help her then doing it well is going to require some commitment to subtle and supportive interactions. You can try to privately let her know that you’ve picked up on the hints, that you get it, and that she can come to you for support if and when she’s comfortable with doing so. You likely will have to give her space and time to figure out if she can really trust you while also occasionally (i.e. don’t push it or otherwise overdo it - let her be in control) reminding her that you care and were serious about the offer of support.
If that’s more than you’re up for, then maybe just let her know you’ve noticed so she doesn’t feel completely ignored, and offer to help her find mental health options to deal with her depression.
At least this is what I’d want as somebody who has lived through several decades of inadequately treated depression.
- Comment on No stuffing your hair in your hat to get an interview... 3 days ago:
Posts about employee shortages after years of AI-driven mass layoffs followed by Trump government mass layoffs, which are further followed by more job cuts as Trump’s tariffs. Kinda tone-deaf, doncha think?
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 3 days ago:
I get the gist. I’ll use myself as an example in an attempt to make my point. I hate, Hate, HATE the very reduction of “complication” you’re referring to. Dumbed-down interfaces that contain no “unnecessary information” drive me nuts. What’s unimportant information to you may be important to me.
By all means, design for the “most common use cases,” but the buck stops right there FAR too often anymore. There’s minimal, if any, customizability, alternate layouts that are more information-dense, or just any accommodation for those that didn’t fit that most common use case. It’s dumbing things down for those who don’t want to learn anything, or use their device to it’s fullest capabilities, and those of us who prefer to use our brain just get ignored and have to suffer.
I get the desire to make things approachable for non-technical people, but if that’s all that ever happens then they’ll never learn anything more advanced than that. So our society gets more and more coddled, and capable of things for themselves - making them all the more dependent upon the tech oligarchs, which is, of course, more profitable for them and more power handed over to them.
No thanks.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 4 days ago:
Yes, as it has been for decades. I also learned some about it back in the early days of the '80s into the '90s. It’s constantly evolving along with the tech (and the capabilities of the current majority of users), so there’s never been much of an absolute set of standards that have withstood the test of time. Again, there are a wide variety of people in the world - all with their own perspectives and ways of doing things. As such, the goal of a universally intuitive interface - while laudable - is a bit of a quixotic pursuit, IMHO.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 5 days ago:
I don’t doubt that, but courses are selected/designed by their teachers - who likely select what fits their pre-existing biases. Virtual nothing humans do comes out without biases affecting things, which is what makes the “reproducibility” of studies such an important part of science - and even those reproductions need to be done numerous times to truly start to become trustworthy.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 5 days ago:
Seems a convoluted way of looking at it to me, but i guess it’s just another case of different strokes for different folks.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 5 days ago:
Did they just make the page look basically the same, but reverse the order? If so, then that’s on them because of shitty UI planning. Making such a drastic change should come with a equally drastic visual layout change to disrupt the automatic mental flow that goes with muscle memory.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 1 week ago:
Would that “sticky” be cum?
- Comment on AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time. 1 week ago:
Never gonna happen while we’re under Republicans’ grip - they are truly the party of hypocritical control freaks.
- Comment on Something is seriously wrong. Trans sex hormone drugs are driving extreme violence and should be banned. 1 week ago:
Something is seriously wrong… and it’s Elon. The site he links to focuses strictly on any bad news it can find that it can somehow tie to trans people. It’s a hate site. I guarantee the spread of good and bad people in the trans community is not worse than any other groups of people who have been historically mistreated, and therefore have a certain portion of them with mental issues due to said mistreatment - absolutely nothing caused by the fact of being trans on its own.
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m going to hunt I’ve down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps without the count won’t be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient
Unless you’re doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
“This sucks” were your words - why else would you say that? Your “personal freedom” argument doesn’t hold water if you’re fine with restrictions on other drugs.
The article says they’re restricting under 16s, so I’m not sure what you’re thinking with the end of your second paragraph - which kinda lens credence to my point that teens aren’t known for thinking things through.
Everyone is different, and that includes how they grow and mature. We all know worry-warts, and we all know boisterous jocks who are more likely not to be careful. If course some will think about it due to who they are, but many others won’t - or erroneously rank other things as more important considerations.
I don’t disagree the justification is flimsy, and as an American I’m not sure why they’re doing that - but I don’t think it’s an entirely misguided approach, either.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
It’s not unimportant:
- Teenager dies in classroom of caffeine overdose after downing latte, energy drink and Mountain Dew
- Lethal Lemonade: Energy Drinks Aimed at Young People Linked to Deaths, Cardiac Risks, Lawsuits Allege
- This article talks about even relatively young mature adults dying both in the main story as we as in links to some others further down the article.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
So let’s sell cigarettes to kids, too. They’re a legal drug, right?
Look, I’m no expert, and I’m not saying caffeine is as bad as cigarettes, but I’m sure neither of us has a full understanding of the brain, or caffeine’s effects upon it. How about admitting you might not know enough to make an informed decision, and let those who do know more work it out?
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
You’re obviously affected by this personally, and thus biased. You’re blatantly ignoring the fact that few teens have a full understanding of how the human brain works, the chemical interactions involved, or the long-term effects possibly involved.
Cigarettes were once actually endorsed by doctors, but we all know better now. I’m not saying this is anywhere near that bad, but that’s because I’m admittedly not anywhere near an expert on this - I know the limitations of my knowledge, and when to defer to someone with more expertise. I would suggest you find the humility to do the same.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
They’re not stupid, but their brains aren’t fully developed yet. A huge problem is the fact that the part of the brain that takes into consideration possible consequences for any action one decides to take is one of the last things to fully develop, and that doesn’t happen until roughly age 25.
- Comment on A cat/sheep hybrid 1 week ago:
Finally - a literal shit(ten)post!
- Comment on Another creative solution from APPLE 1 week ago:
The perfect accessory for those suffering from excessive flatulence.
- Comment on Another creative solution from APPLE 1 week ago:
Yeah, but an agreement has to be signed that they aren’t responsible for what carrying around all that weight up front does to your body.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
Not into it, but no strong hate for it, either. Does it remind you of someone or something you’d rather forget, or something?
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
“There was something in the air that night the Star Wars fight, Han Solo…”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Answer to title question:
(Double-checks against OP…) …um… How to spell it?
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 2 weeks ago:
I think he’s going for the live target holding a target.
- Comment on Fluid Fashion 3 weeks ago:
I see they’re working on the next installment of Venom.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 weeks ago:
Yep - the bottom line is what will get them in the end.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 weeks ago:
If someone complains about such things in today’s political environment, odds are much higher that they are automatically dismissed as “anti-American libtards” and laughed at - all the while patting themselves on the back for “owning the libs.”