Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.
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Not all of them. Some are still here, and still spouting the same nonsense. Go into most of the trump and Musk posts over the last couple of days and look at the downvoted comments. I’ve been getting lots of use out of Voyager’s tagging feature lately.
e: my latest hot tags include ‘redcap’, ‘christian nationalist’, and ‘nazi apologist’. They’ve been scurrying out of the dark places like mice, and I at least want to see them before they eat our cheese.
I appreciate what you’re saying, and did not downvote you. I think you may be underestimating how many phobias exist in the world, though. It may benefit you to have an app that filters images on your device. I’m pretty sure that exists. Everyone trying to add spoiler tags or whatever to every image that might trigger a common phobia would hide more images than you might think.
I don’t think it’s the isolation, but the endless beige monotony.
I didn’t mind my cubefarm when I was immersed in the cube, but it was hella depressing in the morning coming into that environment. Made me feel like a worn cog in the machine. Lunch, standing up to a beige hellscape, sucked all my creativity (which wasn’t great, as a designer).
Open floor plan, when that became the alternative, was worse, though.
Working from home is ideal. I haven’t been able to work for a few years, so maybe I’m out of touch, but I can’t fathom why anyone is against working from home, especially in software dev. It’s the best of all worlds – no office space fees, and most of us will work extra hours in our cosy environment.
e: I was more productive working from home than ever, and would even work outside hours without reporting it because I was just happy to be creating things. I dreamt about my project – in a good way – and implemented ideas like that. Why would a CEO who claims to have the slightest idea about things not want that, unless they’re an idiot?
e2: That’s not to devalue our worth – rereading this, I can see how it could read that way. What I’m saying is when your skills align well with what you like to do and you make a career in that, it’s a profitable combination; unfortunately, our whole economy is set up to select against that, which is a shame for all of us. Doubly so for the morons in charge.
I appreciate your edit. I do promise that UXDers are doing their best to make your experience better, and that shareholders don’t have the level of input into design that it may seem when you’re angry at an interface for not behaving in the way you want.
At least at large companies, UXD teams don’t even know who the shareholders are, much less ever hear from them. If the interface isn’t serving you, it’s always because it’s serving a different (likely larger) use case that’s at odds with your use case. That sucks, but it’s not a corporate conspiracy. I’ve been in this industry for decades, and I’ve never seen that happen except at small companies where the owner barges into design meetings (that never happens at large companies because the owners are too busy to even know the names of the designers).
Yes, Steve Jobs was an asshole who was known to call low-level designers at 3am to demand a small change to an icon that somehow bent him, but he was a psychopath. That’s not how anyone else does things, and it had nothing to do with shareholders, just his own delusions about the colour blue. He also killed himself trying to fruit-ninja his cancer. He’s not a good barometer for the industry, or even Apple’s design, tbh. Designers often ignored him until he forgot and dog-squirrelled himself into the next thing.
What I’m saying is that if you hate a UI, it’s not likely because the company is trying to hurt you, but because the design is aimed at someone else or is just inferior.
Yes, and Porthos existed before the divergence, so it still would have been the same dog in that timeline.
The ballot presented the status quo (which is far less than ideal, sure, but included a normal human) vs outright Fascism with a Capital F, and millions of people shirked their civic duty because they didn’t like the dem candidate enough.
When Fascism is setting fires on your doorstep and you’re too busy arguing about the feng shui in the living room to bother calling in firefighters, yeah, it’s your fault.
Like it or not, the biggest group to sway 2024 were abstainers. If the number of voters who turned out for dems in 2020 had fucking bothered, we wouldn’t be staring down the barrel of historic progressive policy rollbacks, cuts to social services that will kill the disabled and elderly, the funnelling of your own money into the pockets of billionaires on a scale never before imagined, the systematic dismantling of democracy, and the institution of a theocracy.
If you are one of those who couldn’t be bothered for whatever reason, congrats, and you need to sit down and shut the fuck up for the next 4 years or so. You surrendered your right to have your opinion considered when you failed to do the bare minimum to stop a convicted felon, conman, and traitor from gaining power over us all again. We fucking warned you.
e: just saw your other reply. If you were disenfranchised, my comment is not meant for you, and I’m sorry for my vitriol – that’s a travesty, and that should not have happened to you. My comment is meant for the ‘both-siders’ who were (and still are) everywhere leading up to the election.
Johnson also hinted at tying aid to debt ceiling negotiations
Some of us here will be directly affected by Johnson’s debt ceiling concessions. How does it feel to be commoditised like this, to the point of your household becoming a bargaining chip?
You, personally, are worth no more to Johnson & co than the number of services Newsom is willing to cut (and thus how many citizens will be pressed) in order to meet Johnson’s demands.
That’s infuriating, and it flies in the face of humanitarianism. Slaps it right in the face.
e: I can’t spell
Quick quibble:
at the heart of them all is that Apple makes their stuff harder to use by people used to other systems, on purpose.
As a UXD/usability and also software dev in both Windows and Mac OS software, I’d say Apple doesn’t make transition experiences harder on purpose. They try to make it as smooth as possible, whilst working within their own established design & dev standards, which is often the opposite of other companies’ philosophy.
Lesser-sought functions are nearly always changeable in settings or via terminal, and everything is easy to configure from the settings. That’s based on OS standards of not vomiting all options all over the UI (which is the polar opposite of Microsoft, so there’s some adjustment time yes. Seems the OS installer walkthrough/tutorials aren’t that effective.
Yeah, we’ve known Musk is an utter moron for years now. He doesn’t need to keep proving it.
Yes thanks. They did call Archer out by name, though. Scotty says ‘so I tested it on Admiral Archer’s prize beagle’. It was explicitly that dog. (eta I just rewatched that scene to be sure)
We already have the technology to do this:
Groundbreaking technique makes skin transparent
No idea whether it would be safe for pregnancy, but you could probably stencil it on in flower or heart patterns, bedazzle the outline, ya know, really jazz it up.
In the reboot movie.
If I’d met any Soong, I’d have made sure my dog lived forever. Immortal Porthos confirmed.
Archer was awful, yes. If his bullshit with Porthos didn’t directly contribute to the prime directive, it should have. But that wasn’t Porthos’ fault. Poor guy was just trying to boldly go, and he’d no idea those trees were sacred.
He also got the worst ending of nearly any character, with Scotty just misplacing him.
(Copying my comment on a similar, older post, because I really want to share this info again since I think it’s fascinating:)
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has many evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and group cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
(e: For a couple of millennia, the narrative has been humans are warlike and that’s what dominated our development, but that’s simply not true. We’ve been that way for the past couple thousand years, but largely not before that. I’ll leave up to the reader what significant ‘development’ coincided with that shift in our overall behaviour.)
ENT is the best Star Trek because of Porthos. It’s not even a contest. Best character in any Trek, ever.
For real though, this may be what she’s actually thinking.
And they recently added user tagging like on RES for Reddit. It’s so useful. Been using it like mad lately to identify trolls and sealions.