rubythulhu

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

are you gatekeeping burritos 😳

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

some programmer somewhere arbitrarily chose a number that they felt sounded reasonable

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

yeah this post is not ok.

celebrate your journey, but don’t force it on others.

you never crack anyone else’s egg. ever.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 9 months ago

atlantis (pre-atlexit)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That one is a rectangle inside a rectangle. The one in the OP looks like a capsule shape inside a rectangle, more like a usbc connector, so i assumed it was an intentional add by the the person who made the thing as another layer on top of the joke.

But yeah it could also be just someone trying to be clever while whining about usbc not being adopted by iphones sooner, and the icon is off because it’s designed to be made with 3d printer without a high enough level of precision

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

It’s the “radio” option, they just haven’t updated the form in 40y

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

look at the vga connector again. it has a little icon on it that looks like a usbc slot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

the rule exists on a higher plane

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Did you miss the words “dark pattern”? it is a term for when companies misuse/abuse UX principles to trick people into acting against their own best interests. In this case, the bold “click me” looking button in the screenshots means “yes daddy, spank me and then sell my data to your friends”, which is the option that most people who see that box won’t want to click.

Unfortunately, a large swath of the general population are trained in their brains to “click ok to make it go away”. These UX decisions take advantage of those people.

Assumedly, the grayed out box will also not dismiss the banner, but instead lead to a more complicated experience where you then are forced to drill down into complicated options to decide which of the cookies to set, which will be confusing if you didn’t open the link at top in a new tab to cross reference which of the 27 ~~data brokers~~ “Technology Partners” to decide which.

It’s not UX, it’s abusive UI and the very definition of malicious compliance to EU regulations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that still contradicts pictrs breaking the thumbnail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you like kissing commons don’t you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

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