#userhostile — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #userhostile, aggregated by home.social.
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"Just let alt app stores exist" sounds like the easy fix. Setapp Mobile already tried it and folded. The real question isn't whether Apple loses the App Store fight, it's which bill you pay instead.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-playbook-different-department
#apple #appstore #icloud #bigtech #antitrust #epicgames #userhostile #blog
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Apple calls its worst decisions "courage." Killing the headphone jack? Courage. Legally handing iCloud to a Chinese government-owned company? "We advocated against it, we were unsuccessful." Funny how the vocabulary changes when the other party can pull the whole market. Turns out "privacy, that's iPhone" was never a floor. It's a starting price.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-is-priced-not-principled
#apple #china #privacy #bigtech #ai #icloud #userhostile #blog
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RE: https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117091293788039796
I saw this entry in a hashtag game earlier this evening, and I am still thinking about it because it is simultaneously very, very funny and very, very accurate, and how that is the most damning indictment of modern web design possible.
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What happens when your camera's brand promise is "authentic" but they can't stay off the AI bandwagon? Apple's about to find out as they built a certificate of authenticity for iPhone photos, disabled by default, while also expanding their AI image generation.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/shot-on-iphone-now-prove-it
#apple #ai #appleintelligence #ios27 #c2pa #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog
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EA sold itself for $55 billion this week. Mostly to Saudi Arabia. The layoffs got announced to lenders before employees even heard about the deal closing.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-sims-have-a-new-landlord
#ea #electronicarts #privateequity #gaming #insertcoin #bigtech #userhostile #layoffs #digitalownership #blog
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Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face
#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog
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So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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Deleted my Discord account, because next month they are changing all accounts to teen by default. This means all users will need to verify themselves with either a Face Scan or ID, which is a privacy invading move by Discord. There are a lot of NSFW channels that will be destroyed by this move alone...
Given that Discord has been hacked and invaded on the regular...I don't trust this.
I basically lost access to a lot of indie game updates, this sucks. Eh, oh well.
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
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OP: "Alot of people (including some i know personally) play this game alone and use it to help with depression and other mental issues.
Openly making fun of them during the time of the year with the highest suicide rates is certainly a choice."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1pt7ow6/this_is_messed_up_actually/
#Microsoft #Minecraft #gaming #userhostile #enshittification #technology
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We talk a lot about User Experience (UX), but I want to talk about User Hostility.
What is the immediate red flag on a website that makes you hit close tab instantly, no matter how much you wanted to read the content?
For me: It is the "Please disable your Ad Blocker" overlay that blurs the text. I will simply never read your article. Goodbye.
What's yours?
A) The Install our app banner.
B) The Subscribe to Newsletter popup after 3 seconds.
C) Auto-playing video in the corner.
D) Allow Notifications?#UX #WebDesign #Internet #Rant #UserHostile #enshittification #adblocker #browser #web #chrome #firefox
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"To replace the battery in your <BRAND> vehicle key (i.e. fob), we recommend you bring it to your nearest <BRAND> authorized service center" ...
Ah great, the $85 CR2032 replacement? Sounds like a plan. 👊
I've never had to replace the battery in this fob before, and boy howdy is it terribly designed for that. Almost like they wanted it to be more difficult than it needed to be. I wonder why they would do that?
#Stealership #vehicle #car #CarCompany #company #CR2032 #battery #replacement #UserHostile #service #consumable
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@Gina exactly why Symas dumped Matrix. We have mortal humans and even the Tech Founder got bit by that. #SymasCorp #matrix #userhostile
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I got notified though the misleadingly named website "CoverMyMeds" that a patient's insurance doesn't cover a particular medication. It's odd, isn't it, that the website knows enough about the formulary to tell me that the medication isn't covered -- but not enough to tell me what would be?
And the suggestion to call support or check online, without providing a phone number or a link, really makes my weekend work so much more productive.
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If your website uses Cloudflare's "Verify that you are a human" turnstile...
Know that I am unlikely to actually visit your website, in spite of the fact that I am, indeed, a human.
