#gimmicks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gimmicks, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh, the joys of web design gimmicks! 🎨✨ Let's all give a warm welcome to "Scroll Fade," the digital equivalent of trying to read a book while someone gently but insistently shoves it away from you. 🙄 Bravo, web designers, for making sure we all get the same "truly terrible experience." 👏😆
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/ #webdesign #gimmicks #ScrollFade #userexperience #designfail #digitaldesign #HackerNews #ngated -
#TIL after decades buying 7" and 12" #vinyl and even occasional random sized discs I found out that #TinyVinyl is a , uh, new thing... A pocket sized 4" record format devised to squeeze into #FunkoPops packaging and/or provide a 4 minute per side collectable playable format in the streaming era ...
All I know, is many "automatic return" turnturntables are not going to play these tiny discs!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/tiny-vinyl-is-a-new-pocketable-record-format-for-the-spotify-age/ via #ArsTechnica #ConsumerAudio #Audio #Gimmicks #CollectorsItems
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"Videos show the CD being inserted only for the player to show the message 'No disc'. In some cases, the CD player spits the disc straight back out."
#technology #music #psychicalmedia #marketing #weird #weirdnews #strange #odd #bizarre #clarity #clear #gimmicks
https://www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/cd-players/lordes-new-transparent-cd-doesnt-work-fans-say -
The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O. analysis focused on the version of the bill that passed the House late last month, but the cost estimate could change as Republicans in the Senate begin to put their imprint on the legislation.
G.O.P. Senators want to deepen some of the bill’s tax cuts, while others are pressing to pare back some its cuts to Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor, and clean-energy tax incentives.
Conservatives and Wall Street investors had already expressed grave concerns that the measure would swell federal deficits,
and some Senate Republicans have said they cannot back the legislation in its current form.That could derail the bill’s progress, given that the party can afford to lose no more than three votes in the Senate if all Democrats vote against it.
The legislation had long been expected to add significantly to the debt, given the enormous cost of extending the tax cuts that Republicans first put into place in 2017, the central pillar of the bill.
Hard-right lawmakers demanded that the party use their total control of Washington to also slash spending and contain the cost of the legislation,
but the C.B.O.’s estimate was a reminder that the party fell well short of covering the roughly $3.8 trillion cost of extending the tax cut.
In the House version of the bill, Republicans also turned to some well-worn #gimmicks in a bid to lower the sticker price of the legislation.
Several of the bill’s tax cut provisions, including Mr. Trump’s campaign pledges to not tax tips and overtime pay, would last for only a few years. Those cuts could become far more costly if they were continued.
In recent weeks, some analysts on Wall Street have started to voice their worry about the consequences of the legislation, given the nation’s already-precarious fiscal situation. Moody’s downgraded the credit rating of the United States last month, the last of the major rating firms to cast some doubt on the country’s ability to pay its bills.
To defend their legislation, some Republicans and White House aides have taken to attacking the C.B.O. as politically motivated and unreliable. But several nonpartisan independent groups that have analyzed the bill have also concluded that it would add significantly to the federal debt. -
🚀 Another day, another #Chrome gimmick: a side panel gizmo masquerading as your AI-powered web #assistant. Because clearly, what we needed was an emoji-infested GitHub Copilot clone to help us pretend our browser is something more than a tab-hoarding monster. 🙄
https://github.com/parsaghaffari/browserbee #Gimmicks #AI #Emoji #GitHubCopilot #BrowserExtensions #HackerNews #ngated -
Das erinnert mich an #Yps und #MickyMaus Hefte in meiner Kindheit
Da waren immer solche #Gimmicks bei
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Das erinnert mich an #Yps und #MickyMaus Hefte in meiner Kindheit
Da waren immer solche #Gimmicks bei
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Das erinnert mich an #Yps und #MickyMaus Hefte in meiner Kindheit
Da waren immer solche #Gimmicks bei
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Das erinnert mich an #Yps und #MickyMaus Hefte in meiner Kindheit
Da waren immer solche #Gimmicks bei
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Das erinnert mich an #Yps und #MickyMaus Hefte in meiner Kindheit
Da waren immer solche #Gimmicks bei
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🙄 Oh, joy! Another groundbreaking revelation about how the almighty #Eurorack could be marginally improved by some half-baked idea that was 90% complete before being abandoned. Because clearly, what the world needs right now is yet another whimsical, useless synthesizer gimmick that promises #innovation but delivers little more than a laughable #distraction. 🎛️🤦♂️
https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob #Synthesizers #Gimmicks #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
#Objectdock von #Stardock
Ich verstehe nicht, warum so ein Starter nicht nativ bei #Windows dabei ist! Kommt in den Vordergrund, wenn man mit dem #Mauszeiger an den Bildschirmrand fährt, verschwindet wieder, kann vielfach eingestellt werden und ist in der Vollversion auch nicht sonderlich teuer.
https://www.andreas-edler.de/blog/2025/03/objectdock-von-stardock/
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Has there ever been a more feckless, poll driven, and visionless leader of the NDP than Singh? If he isn't pandering to right wing dimwits, he's parroting thei right's propaganda. The NDP should be in 1st place with a floundering LPC. Instead, they are losing support and seats.
#Cdnpoli #NDP #LPC #GPC #democracy #Canada #gimmicks
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/the-liberal-ndp-deal-is-dead-here-s-what-got-done-and-what-didn-t/article_7deee530-6aef-11ef-9432-0fc1baa226fc.html -
Tech brands like Logitech, Nothing, and Microsoft are adding AI-related features to their gadgets, but are these features truly necessary? The rush to integrate AI raises questions about the actual benefits for users.
#TechBrands #Gadgets #Gimmicks #TechDebate #ConsumerTech #Necessity #Usefulness #AIinProducts #TechAdditions #Marketing #AIFeatures #ProductImprovement #TechInnovation #AIHype #ConsumerElectronics #AIandTech #TechIndustry #TechTrends #TechDiscussion #TechDebates #TechProducts
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#BLABBERMOUTH
NICKELBACK On Past Feuds With Other Bands: 'Regrettable Things Get Said On All Sides And Everybody Kind Of Looks Stupid'#Nickelback #Feuds #Bands #Egos #RegrettableThings #MusicDiversity #ChadKroeger #StoneSour #CoreyTaylor #Gimmicks #RoadrunnerRecords #SLIPKNOT
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3/3 At this rate, it may end up with people starting to suspect anything and everything brands claim, including actual product features and promises 🤷
It would be useful to remember the children's tale, 'The boy who cried wolf' all over again.
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PSA: I know SV bro culture is desperate to sell this clown makeup, but there is no such thing as anarcho-capitalism. The philosophies are diametrically opposed, always and forever. Here's a new label for ya: feral libertarian #Gimmicks #BroCulture #SV
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Had a say on deceptive marketing gimmicks in the Financial Express, on the back of a recent deluge including Puma signing up Anushka after an elaborate drama involving both Anushka and Virat Kohli, Vim Black, Monster India rebranding... courtesy Geetika Srivastava.
Online version: https://bit.ly/3C1YYMH
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Chips mit Pferdegeschmack, Kopfstützen für ermüdete Gamer – Geschenke aus Japan
Die Pandemie wird ignoriert, es darf wieder gereist werden. Wer es nach Japan schafft, findet jede Menge an Geschenkideen. Hier eine kleine Auswahl.
#Einkaufen #Gadgets #Gaming #Gimmicks #Japan #Konsum #Leben #Lebensmittel #Nahrung #PostausJapan #Shopping #Weihnachten #News
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Die Pandemie wird ignoriert, es darf wieder gereist werden. Wer es nach Japan schafft, findet jede Menge an Geschenkideen. Hier eine kleine Auswahl.
Chips mit Pferdegeschmack, Kopfstützen für ermüdete Gamer – Geschenke aus Japan
