atomicthumbs

remote sensing practicioner

gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.


Website League address
@wolf@forest.stream
send me an email
atomicthumbs@wolf.observer
twitter but hopefully i only post photos there in the future
twitter.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter!! this one will let me tell you where i go
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter rss same thing
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs/rss
Website League (centralized federation social media project)
websiteleague.org/
Push Processing (Website League photography instance)
pushprocess.ing/
88x31 button embed code
<a href="https://wolf.observer/88x31"><img src="https://wolf.observer/images/wolf-88x31.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a>
forest.stream (general admission website league instance)
forest.stream/
bluesky (probably just for photos)
bsky.app/profile/wolf.observer
this will be a cohost museum someday
cohost.rip/

HunnyBon
@HunnyBon

The saddest part of Youtube is when they disabled comments on the music channels... No discussion allowed.


bugholdersepiphany
@bugholdersepiphany

alongside, yaknow, comments under music talking about how good the music is and life stories, i miss those videos that were filled to the brim with annotations that the videos got completely covered in them, they were the fucking best


xkeeper
@xkeeper
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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

My favorite things about this:

A) they claimed they got rid of it because they couldn't make it work on mobile. which is nothing - just make it desktop only. nobody is going to be confused that a physically impossible feature doesn't work on mobile

B) it was the last feature left that you could use to issue corrections. it is now impossible. if you make a mistake in a video, you're married to it forever. deleting the video and reuploading is completely out of the question for a laundry list of reasons, nobody reads descriptions or comments. you're simply fucked. YouTube knows this and does not care. They even introduced a pathetic, insulting "corrections" feature last year that nobody has or will ever use because it's nonsensical. So they know there's a problem, and will not be doing anything about it.


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

In related news, here's this ubiquitous behavior of massive software companies that fucks us all over weekly:

  • create feature X
  • it gets used by 98% of users. 15,000,000, say
  • 300,000,000 new users appear
  • feature X is still used by 15,000,000 people. but now that's only 20% of the userbase!
  • it's silly to support something only 20% of people use! time to delete it

being treated as numbers isn't bad. it's being treated as small numbers. it's very easy to look at "10%" and go, oh, nobody cares about this feature. it's much harder to say that about "150,000,000 people," which is probably the number that didn't want Microsoft to remove 60% of the taskbar options in windows 11.

and sometimes you can see this error being realized after the fact. Microsoft is slowly reintroducing all the taskbar features they removed. they are probably getting told by friends of developers "you're out of your minds, what alien told you that nobody wants taskbar button labels?" and slowly, sheepishly putting that shit back in. yet they won't learn, and next month they'll remove something else that only "one percent" of a BILLION people use.


hailthefish
@hailthefish

because literally everyone who knows how to change or customize anything about windows also knows how to turn off user telemetry, so Microsoft's data showed that literally no one prefers the classic style start menu or classic style taskbar or any of the other non-default settings that have been gradually chipped away lmao


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in reply to @xkeeper's post:

all they did for excuse was claim it was vaguely "rarely used"?? like... no shit, Sherlocks, of course it's gonna be "rarely used" in proportion to the absolute flood of junk on your video platform. assholes.

and then they had the gall to say "but its ok you can just pay these approved parties to caption your video for you" if i recall correctly

there was a really cool animated adventure game done with annotations i remember from back then, and i really wish i remembered how to find it because it was in a language i can't read. it even had a tiny hidden annotation in one of the videos that led off into this wild alternate-timeline ARGish thing

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Honestly, I call bullshit on them not getting it to work too. I bet you it was more an issue of "the font is too small" or something simple as that, and even then Phone screens have expanded so much I'm not sure that'd even be a problem anymore.

They already let you view chapters in a menu; an "annotations menu" on mobile which let you view the annotations at system font sizes in an ordered list wouldn't have been terribly hard for them.

Like, They're fucking GOOGLE, they have the man power. It's just like how YouTube on Windows Phone was seemingly impossible, only for Microsoft to build the whole app for them and it worked better than the app on iOS (at the time). — They just didn't want to because there was no money in it.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

i can't fuckin believe they locked the taskbar to the bottom of the screen, and only with registry hacks can you put it on the top

how does that respond to multiple monitors, how the hell do you put it vertically along the right side of your right monitor in a two-monitor setup

Gravis, thaf's ~5%, nof 20%, and teh reason I am correcting that minor detail is thaf it made me think abouf how as a user of Cohost u could now add a Youtube-looking annotation covering it wiff the correction, hehe

(which I am not telling u to do but it was funny to imagine to my weird cat brain)

This post is part a big wall of posts and I'm not sure which post I'm commenting on, but I would have thought Microsoft would have known better, as this is a corollary of a pretty well known phenomenon from Microsoft project managers from the 1990s Office days. There was always a big push to remove features from Office that only 5% of users used, but when they did a better analysis, they realized that all users used a different 5% of features as part of their core workflows. So while you might never mail-merge, that feature is absolutely critical for some user base, and screwing with it will bring down the wrath of god on you. Perhaps the problem is not being able to threaten Google properly like you could with MS via the sales rep.

in reply to @hailthefish's post:

because literally everyone who knows how to change or customize anything about windows also knows how to turn off user telemetry

r/Firefox often laments the same thing. and yes, i do have it off. i'm part of that particular problem.