#uniformity — Public Fediverse posts

#uniformity : the quality of being the same throughout

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #autonomy #culture #difference #diversity #evolution #nations #regions #similarity #uniformity #variety

https://text-bubbles.blogspot.com/2026/05/love-yourself.html

#poetry #poem #writing #freedom #selflove #uniformity #conformity #wild #mask #masks #armors #growing #jlbouzou

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

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¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

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¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

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#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

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#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

@CultureDesk @THR indeed this is a big move.
It will make #genAI-produced things even more #mainstreammedia . I am sure this will contribute to more undesirable #uniformity...

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

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#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

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#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

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#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

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#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be summed up in the word –suppression. Our desire to have a thing or to do a thing is considered as conclusive evidence that we ought not to have it, and ought not to do it. At every turn we run against cherubim and a flaming sword guarding some entrance to the Eden of our desire. We are allowed to investigate all subjects in which we feel no particular interest, and to express the opinions of the majority with the utmost freedom. We are taught that liberty of speech should never be carried to the extent of contradicting the dead witnesses of a popular superstition. Society offers continual rewards for self-betrayal, and they are nearly all earned and claimed, and some are paid.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #uniformity #religiousintolerance #conformity #groupthink #intolerance #orthodoxy #regulation #religion #selfbetrayal #society #suppression #tyrannyofthemajority

For reasons.

The german text translates to "Uniformity is the opposite of art".

Aus Gründen ...

#MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #Art #Statement #Uniformity #Einheitlich

For reasons.

The german text translates to "Uniformity is the opposite of art".

Aus Gründen ...

#MastoArt #MastoArt3D #FediArt #Xanathon #Art #Statement #Uniformity #Einheitlich

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

“The Montréal Effect: Why Programming Languages Need A Style Czar”, Adam Gordon Bell (https://earthly.dev/blog/language-style-czar/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715223

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ngdrbc/montreal_problem_why_programming

#Programming #Style #StyleGuide #Montréal #Scala #Python #Go #Uniformity #Diversity

“The Montréal Effect: Why Programming Languages Need A Style Czar”, Adam Gordon Bell (https://earthly.dev/blog/language-style-czar/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715223

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ngdrbc/montreal_problem_why_programming

#Programming #Style #StyleGuide #Montréal #Scala #Python #Go #Uniformity #Diversity

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

"From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify"

"The homogeneity contrasted with the overall hipster philosophy of the 2010s, namely, that by consuming certain products and cultural artefacts you could proclaim your own uniqueness apart from the mainstream crowd – in this case a particular coffee shop rather than an obscure band or clothing brand. “The irony of it all is that these spaces are supposed to represent spaces of individuality, but they’re incredibly monotonous."

"This homogenisation is not just a phenomenon of our own moment; it is a consequence of changes that happened long before algorithmic social media feeds, and is just as likely to intensify in the future."

"When her cafe started selling coffee online, Facebook and Instagram seemed to throttle its reach – unless it bought advertising and boosted the social media company’s own profits. It felt like algorithmic blackmail: pay our toll or we won’t promote you."
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka,
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same
#globalisation #homogenisation #culture #sameness #uniformity #monoculture #GlobalUbiquity #hipsters #LifestyleBrag #Instagrammability #uniqueness #authenticity #individuality #instagram #cafes #consumers #habitus #NonPlaces #DigitalPlatforms #algorithm #TechnoFeudalism #refeudalisation

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

"From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify"

"The homogeneity contrasted with the overall hipster philosophy of the 2010s, namely, that by consuming certain products and cultural artefacts you could proclaim your own uniqueness apart from the mainstream crowd – in this case a particular coffee shop rather than an obscure band or clothing brand. “The irony of it all is that these spaces are supposed to represent spaces of individuality, but they’re incredibly monotonous."

"This homogenisation is not just a phenomenon of our own moment; it is a consequence of changes that happened long before algorithmic social media feeds, and is just as likely to intensify in the future."

"When her cafe started selling coffee online, Facebook and Instagram seemed to throttle its reach – unless it bought advertising and boosted the social media company’s own profits. It felt like algorithmic blackmail: pay our toll or we won’t promote you."
>>
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka,
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same
#globalisation #homogenisation #culture #sameness #uniformity #monoculture #GlobalUbiquity #hipsters #LifestyleBrag #Instagrammability #uniqueness #authenticity #individuality #instagram #cafes #consumers #habitus #NonPlaces #DigitalPlatforms #algorithm #TechnoFeudalism #refeudalisation

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According to a recent article YouTube will use AI to direct the content that people make, how it looks how it sounds and more. In so doing YouTube will be even less interesting.

AI tools will also begin informing what kind of content creators make. A new AI feature in YouTube Studio will generate topic ideas and outlines for potential videos. The AI suggestions will be personalized to individual creators, YouTube says, and based on what’s already trending with audiences. Additionally, an AI-powered music recommendation system will take a written description of a creator’s video and suggest audio to use.

Human Interest

The beauty of YouTube, back in the day is that it was user generated content. People would go out, live their lives, film something interesting and then choose to share that on YouTube, whether it was a bird flying in an interesting place, a swollen river, and more.

Clickbait and Uniform

The problem with YouTube, with algorithms is evident enough. The videos have clickbait descriptions with absurd images and the videos that are promoted are those with hundreds of thousands, or even millions of views. With AI chosen topics, AI generated backgrounds and AI chosen music everything will become as formulaic as the Hollywood film industry. Nothing will be unique and creative. Everything will be uniform.

Personal Content

The entire reason for using YouTube was to find original content created by individuals. With the imposition of AI driven content so the originality and imagination will take a back seat.

He said that YouTube creators have expressed that editing and brainstorming can often be time-consuming. The tools were developed to assist with these tasks.

source

That's the entire point. I spend hours trying to think of a topic blog post, and then I spend yet more time writing. With video it's the same thing. We think of a subject, we shoot the material, and then we spend time thinking about how to edit the video so that it's interesting.

Creativity Takes Time

It's time consuming because it's creative, because it's artistic. It's time consuming because it's about learning to think for the edit. The more experience you have as an editor, the faster you become. That time consuming moment is about learning to be creative. If AI replaces the thought process then, with time, all content on YouTube will be boring and unimaginative.

Bland Uniform Content

To some degree it already is, which is why I stopped paying for Premium and reverted to conventional video content sources. Television shows, films and more. YouTube forces us to see specific content, and makes it impossible to browse. They did it for viewers, and now they are doing it for viewers.

It is not that I don't like AI. It's that I don't like AI to replace imagination and the decision making process of content producers. It goes back to my old question. If you can't be bothered investing the time to create content and find new ideas, then why should others take time to watch that same content?

The Mountainous Levelling

In a cnn article Neal Mohan said, “We want to make it easier for everyone to feel like they can create, and we believe generative AI will make that possible,” which, in theory is fantastic, except that when you login to YouTube to see videos you see content with millions, or at least tens of thousands of views. You don't see video content with 15 views, or even zero views. You see the content that is already popular, either because of algorithms, or large subscription numbers.
Those ordinary people, for whom the field has been levelled, is now even more uneven, because videos with millions of views will be shown to everyone, and so become more popular, whilst other videos will have five views. The algorithms don't allow us to find niche content, like they should.

The Cult of the Amateur

One of my personal gripes with YouTube, TikTok and other platforms is that they encourage amateur producers with no film and television theory, to create content, seen by millions of people. Back in 2007 or so I joked that it was User Generated Crap, and I still feel that way today. Rather than worthwhile content we're encouraged to watch dull content.

As the film and television industries have been drained of funds they have been replaced by amateurs creating content for online platforms. People who love music hate auto-tune because it allowed people who never learned to sing to be seen as singers, and so music has degraded over time. The same is true of youtuber, TikTokker and other content. The rules and conventions that made film and television art forms, have been undercut for mediocre modern videos. What was once seen as crap, is now seen as good, and those that want to create legacy content are forced to create clickbait rubbish.

And Finally

I went from potentially watching several hours of YouTube content a day to watching a few minutes every few weeks. I grew tired of the clickbait headlines, and mediocre content that the promoted accounts produced. I found myself thinking "Why am I watching this rubbish" and eventually stopped.

If AI generates topics, video backgrounds, chooses music and recommends what to watch then we have lost the freedom to find and watch spontaneous content and ideas.

#AI #algorithms #uniformity #youtube

https://blog.main-vision.com/youtube-and-ai/

You might not be able to understand the World with that team, much less the Universe.

#xai #uniformity #elonmusk

Honestly, you could take #Nashville by storm with competent playing and mediocre songwriting abilities if you just stopped trying to sound like every other damned country artist you worship.
#Country #Music #uniformity

The age of average https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
"The interiors of our homes, coffee shops and restaurants all look the same. The buildings where we live and work all look the same. The cars we drive, their colours and their logos all look the same. The way we look and the way we dress all looks the same. Our movies, books and video games all look the same. And the brands we buy, their adverts, identities and taglines all look the same."
#uniformity

The age of average https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
"The interiors of our homes, coffee shops and restaurants all look the same. The buildings where we live and work all look the same. The cars we drive, their colours and their logos all look the same. The way we look and the way we dress all looks the same. Our movies, books and video games all look the same. And the brands we buy, their adverts, identities and taglines all look the same."
#uniformity

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

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