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  • The YouTube app for Android. It’s become my hobby to observe how it gradually becomes worse and worse. But not with dark patterns but just plain bad handling.

    • all icons became bigger over time, having to scroll more if you have multiple playlists
    • sorting has recently become almost impossible, you have to hit that perfect one pixel wide spot to rearrange videos
    • the search, oh my… 3 results, 5 unrelated videos, twenty shorts, 5 suggestions, 3 more results, repeat
    • only shows couple of playlists, have to click on “show all”
    • playlists are sorted alphabetically, or by last addition, varies from update to update. Muscle memory is useless
    • all the above varies from device to other device to browser to PC, there’s no consistency
    • and so much more

    If I want to use YouTube seriously I’m using Firefox and ublock, but I reached a point where I’m looking forward to every app update to enjoy the “improvements” they made for a “better user experience”.












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    17 days ago

    I adore Tron. It’s sometimes surprisingly spot on in its predictions of future tech, and other times so completely bonkers like Hackers.

    But visually it’s absolutely stunning, every time I watch it I’m amazed what great work the Special Effects people have done in a time when people went to the Arcade to play Pac-Man.

    As good as the new movies were, they don’t hold a candle to the classic. When they went to the old server in Ares I finally felt back home again!






  • The good thing: It’s voluntary for companies. The bad thing is: For now.

    Signal will not comply, so all the more reason to use this.

    But the big companies (meta, Google etc) will definitely use this. If only to get them an itsy bitsy tiny more data about people. Sorry, I meant the ability to protect the children of course.

    The EU in itself is a really good thing, but with this they really fucked up, putting the absolutely dubious way to reach this goal aside.

    Climate change, wars, rise of Nazi parties everywhere, aren’t we fucked enough already?