Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)

@amszmidt @cstross @saliaku Yes. They added it quite a few years ago. 365 supports the v1.4 format even.

I really thought I saw that they were saving as it by default. I guess not then?

@amszmidt @cstross @saliaku I think we're talking about different things. I'm talking about the OpenDocument formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument MS didn't have anything to do with those...

It was my understanding Office defaults to saving as those now? I don't run Office and wouldn't touch it, so I apologize if I was mistaken about that.

@cstross @saliaku WINE can run a lot of Windows software. Open source programs have a lot of dealings with proprietary formats. But it really depends on what sort of format you're even talking about. You left that as such a vague all-encompassing statement, but a surprising number of things don't use proprietary formats anymore. Even, somehow, Microsoft Office went to an open format. (Not sure how anyone got MS, the jack of proprietary, on board with that.) A lot of CAD/etc stuff that is proprietary has Linux builds too.

Of course some companies have things super specialized running in various forms that are super proprietary. Many of those are so specialized and so proprietary they may even be running on DOS or Windows 2000. That isn't applicable to this discussion however...

@moelassus @Em0nM4stodon I'm pretty sure that this is actually exactly the kind of thing being looked for here.

I think this came up in reference to the earlier post about The Last of Us having the tech of that time period without all the modern enshittification.

Cars are a wonderful example of this.

@Em0nM4stodon @moelassus I've been wondering what he heck is going on with this really. Like no one seems to care? Really? No one? People aren't... hacking them or something at the very least?

Apparently someone recently (Subaru I think it was?) got the point on buttons at least. Probably still spies though...

@davidbisset I'm a bit confused about some of the article though. Like they show some such as LibreWolf making only three connections on initial install, but then go down to list a bunch of connections, most of which are obviously extensions making the connection.

They also say they're not talking about what is good or not, but then explicitly declare that making connections is bad and I must strongly disagree when some of those connections clearly shown are for uBlock Origin to download its blocklist (that's a minimum standard! You should never browse the Web without an ad blocker in 2025!) It's good for you to start off with a bare minimum safety margin, otherwise even just that quick lookup of something before initial setup is dangerous.

@catsalad I sure hope so. Right now this passing is like a score of kidney stones...

@skinnylatte Well, it was the fried component I was wondering about. Rice in the morning I absolutely understand. I don't really eat breakfast (just a weird thing I have, not regional or otherwise) but I imagine those carbs can really help one power through the early hours.

@skinnylatte Huh. Ok. I'm definitely not an expert when it comes to food. ... Anywhere...

@skinnylatte Isn't fried rice a bit excessive for breakfast though?

@GreenSkyOverMe @ami_angelwings I dunno... I feel like they'd end up only talking about their favorite foods and teas and then Janeway would get into an argument with Picard about whether coffee was better than tea.

I don't even think anyone would bring up the Borg, much less the Dominion.

EDIT: Or maybe something like this, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY

@inthehands ?

You mean you set it to not disable crawling?

Regardless though, a lot of people are complaining that these "AI" services ARE crawling their sites even though told not to by robots.txt.

@inthehands I find it intriguing that even though they're ignoring robots.txt they're still properly identifying themselves. Weird that they breach one trust/protocol but not the other.

@mcc (I guess replace "someone" with "something.")

@AzulCrescent Lol, I am a native speaker and this one still throws me sometimes.

UI designers: please please please please please please please please please please please please give us a way to enter a number exactly instead of only a slider that can't be precise.

I know a difference of one seems unimportant to you, but I literally have to hold my breath unable to even breath right until I get it right. I know I'm not the only one out there. I don't want a value that is "close enough."

Just make the value text a box instead of a label.

This might be an #ActuallyAutistic thing, I don't know. Regardless, it's super simple to just make it a box I can manually edit.

This is even worse on mobile where taking your finger off the screen can move the bar.

And I KNOW I'm not the only one who feels this way.

#UI #UX #OCD #UXDesign #UIDesign

@joby @futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender Yeah, there are a lot of little scenarios where it can actually be useful and that's one of them. The best thing about that is it merely stimulates you to create on your own and you can just keep starting over and retrying until you have a pretty good pre-defined case in your head to start from with the real person.

As long as one doesn't forget that things may go wildly differently IRL, it can help build up towards a better version of what might otherwise be a tough conversation.

@futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender Summaries aren't reliable either.

There are indeed use-cases. But every single one of them comes with caveats. And, I mean, to be fair, most "quick" methods of doing anything come with caveats. It's just that people forget those caveats.

@dalias @sarahjamielewis Which functions are you referring to? I must admit I haven't needed them, so hadn't noticed.

@sarahjamielewis What is your opinion on LibreWolf? It has a lot of the same sorts of things, just sans the TOR networking. They even have most of the stuff for connections to Mozilla disabled or removed and some nice anti-fingerprinting stuff.

Though, long term, I'm holding out hopes for Servo to be a thing and give us an option that isn't beholden to any corporations.