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   mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:49:04 JST mhoye

   I get the snark, but "page has to load in x time on expensive device in expensive city"... where is the human? Your audience isn't a phone.

   I know I've said this a lot, but I think about the NHS digital design standards all the time, about that presentation where their lead designer talked about finding agent strings for devices like the Playstation Vita and Opera for the Nintendo DS in their logs. About how the NHS site had to work for those people too, no matter what.

   https://wandering.shop/@fugueish/116695409129543894

   • Niki Tonsky, Soatok Dreamseeker and Rich Felker and 2 others repeated this.
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     ⠠⠵ avuko (avuko@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:50:08 JST ⠠⠵ avuko

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     • Robin Adams
     • Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

     @robinadams @steevmi1 @mhoye

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     Robin Adams (robinadams@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:50:09 JST Robin Adams

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     • Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

     @steevmi1 @mhoye

     Ódio e Apatia :Ryyca: repeated this.
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     Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas (steevmi1@freeradical.zone)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:50:10 JST Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

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     @mhoye How great that we've re-implemented early 2000s web browsing.

     "What do you mean, you're not on this OS with these things installed using this browser with these extensions on this monitor at this resolution? It works fine for me."

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     mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:50:11 JST mhoye

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     "Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."

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     Emily_S (emily_s@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 21:46:39 JST Emily_S

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     • Terence Eden

     @mhoye not sure if its the one you're thinking of, but a very similar story from @Edent

     https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

     Edit: now the other posts actually loaded I see that I'm very late to this party :D

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 22:20:44 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @mhoye "But why is she keeping something mission critical to her health in her unpublished tiktok reels" fuck you is why. We don't actually get to decide how users choose to use the system, we get to provide it, provide soft incentives to use it the way we intended, and keep it running when they get creative.

     Now, is she going to be able to show the doctor what she needs to show them or is it going to be on you that she can't?