Notices by Jonathan T (jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk)

@evan I'm afraid that article emphasises my point. I mean I do like a clitoris, but not everyone else does.

(PS. Aware that your polls are to be answered how *I* interpret them. Not going to come across well in writing but my original reply was tongue in cheek.)

@evan Qualified yes because I'm not convinced the definition of 'beans' is universal across cultures. If your beans are the same as my beans then it's a strong yes.

@BlackAzizAnansi Counterpoint: my dad removed all digital means of paying for anything from his computer and phone, and now has to go to the bank to pay for anything, or get physical money out, because he knew he could no longer trust himself not to get scammed. I didn't even need to tell him. And I'm stupidly proud of him for it, although it's tragic that he found it necessary to even think that way.

@mekkaokereke Even if they aren't innocent, willingly killing people irrespective of what they've done is still abhorrent. The death penalty is an abomination no matter who it is used against.

@StillIRise1963 It's one of those things that makes white supremacy and its adherents ridiculous whiners: the blood of the 'superior race' is always the one that gets 'diluted'... if you're as goddamned superior as you say you are, surely it should be the other way around.

Ultimately white supremacy is based on a premise that the white race is fundamentally weak and pathetic: it is never the whites who spread 'purity' to others, it is always the other that 'contaminates' them.

@StillIRise1963 It's the same with their whinging about culture: tell me Mr White Supremacist, how is it that your white, Christian culture is so incredibly trivial to replace by Islam and Judaism when it is so fucking superior and dominant?

Again, they're outright telling you that despite their rhetoric and bluster, they really think it is they who are the weak, puny, snivelling nothings of the world.

@agiletortoise @designatednerd If you needed clear evidence that not enough senior people at Apple 'eat their own dog food', it's that Tim Cook isn't reminded of Steve Job's birthday every year... and that Contacts is one of the most terrible applications that has seen virtually no improvements in its entire existence on any Apple platform.

@jwildeboer I wouldn't (and am not) watch the pointless Prime Minister debates here in the UK. There's no way I'd watch the US equivalent.

They aren't broadcast for public service television purposes, they're broadcast for 'entertainment' purposes. And they are not entertaining.

@BethanyBlack OK. I have to ask the obvious question: is the surname pronounced the way it seems it should be or is it a bucket/bouquet scenario?

@GossiTheDog What they lacked the most was money. Everything else stems from that detail.

@thisismissem @GossiTheDog @vmstan NB. hCAPTCHA is not accessible. Please read the real world experience of screen reader users as to why - here's a starting point:

https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/111958354127776691

@thisismissem @GossiTheDog @vmstan That doesn't excuse people from keeping on recommending it as a solution. It isn't one. Stop recommending it.

@evan Least worst.

If the data was truly anonymised, Palantir would not be buying it.

#UKPol #UKPolitics

@noondlyt @feditips @boris @seachanger @LoganFive All the iOS apps I have used open links in app as if they're just any other post in the app and bypass the dreadful UX of the Mastodon PWA. Whatever they're doing is something the PWA desperately needs to find a way to emulate because it is single-handedly one of the most user-hostile experiences I have ever experienced on a social media site, excluding moderation issues.

@davidallengreen @goatsarah Their arch-nemesis, Burgundy Passport, constantly threatens to take away their Sovereign Tea. The rotter.

@wim_v12e @mudasobwa @mac @thomasfuchs And this is the point - let people and teams who work better and more productively at home, work at home; let people and teams who work better and more productively in the office, work in the office. Don't force one group to do what the other one finds best because it's stupidly counterproductive and actively harmful to your organisation. This is hardly a revolutionary concept.

@mac @thomasfuchs And if you really want to see my productivity sky rocket, give me a 4 day week, dammit.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard Again, I'm not disagreeing that being assigned an instance rather than having to pick one is the wrong approach but just shoving everyone into the same 'generic' instance may also not be the best way to do it. Using mastodon.social as an example - they did struggle back in November with moderation when the first and second large influxes from Twitter occurred and it almost got them defederated by a lot of other instances at the time.

@thomasfuchs @RetroWizzard But it doesn't though. They'll go back to where they were before and tell everyone that this place is terrible - and they'd be justified in doing so - and you'd get more people not even bothering to try joining.

I don't think the instance problem is one that is trivial to solve.