Is the joke that nobody knows what it says on the blackboard?

Mocht Feddit/Lemmy echt groot worden, dan is het wel kwetsbaarder dan Mastodon, aangezien ook zichtbaarheid baseren op upvotes en reacties een algoritme is, en vrij makkelijk te beïnvloeden is als iemand dacht echt zou willen.

Maar ten opzichte van de Youtubes, Tiktoks en Facebooks van deze wereld:

• Het is geen zelflerend algoritme, dat zichzelf blind aanpast om maar meer engagement te maken.
• Het is voor iedereen hetzelfde (of iig iedereen met dezelfde client), dus je kan controleren wat anderen zien.

Ja viel me ook op! Nog steeds af en toe issues, maar veeeeeel minder vaak dan eerst. Hulde!

Het rapport, met dank aan @BjornW@mastodon.social.

Same, but apparently more people do not notice the test alarms, than there are people that don’t have their phone on them. So I guess that theoretically makes sense, although in my case the former feels more likely than the latter? Then again, if my phone’s dead, I’ll still often be around at least one other person with a working phone.

Author handle to hopefully make them easier to follow (and at least notify them that they’re on Lemmy): @royaards@newsie.social

Interestingly the European Rail Passengers Union (@erpu@eupolicy.social) isn’t wholly positive; see this thread: https://eupolicy.social/@erpu/116566721075134554

Apparently it’s still going to be quite a bit of work to find the best place to buy a ticket if your trip crosses more than one border, and your existing discounts are unlikely to apply.

Still, it will hopefully be an improvement over the situation today.

No, I was already convinced that relying on colour alone is insufficient. I still think they can be useful helpful if they don’t rely on colour alone.

True, there are exceptions (that’s why I keep saying most), and I think the pattern is more common on web than on desktop. (Though I think Gnome also compensates a bit with their boxed lists as an additional affordance.)

Note that I am 100% on your side in saying that there are annoying toggle boxes that are unclear. In your image, I can only tell that the second is probably on because the right-hand side is usually used for the on state in LTR locales. But they can be better, e.g. with an on/off label integrated. Ironically, GNOME has a toggle to enable this:

Well, I’d encourage you to keep an eye out; I think you’ll find that the majority of controls on the web behave as I described. And I think that’s a good thing, too: it’s far quicker and easier to be able to deduce behaviour from the control you’re handling at the moment, than having to scan the complete context. And especially if e.g. you’re visually impaired, the latter can be a major hassle.

(And indeed, the other controls you mention almost never apply instantly, so their behaviour is still predictable. When they do, they’ll often still have some other affordances to indicate that they do apply instantly.)

I was trying to make the point that the way a control looks gives you some information on how it will behave, because software has generally been consistent with associating those looks with those behaviours.

So if you see multiple options with a circle in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually deselect the first one.

On the other hand, if those options have squares in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually result in both of them being selected.

And in both cases, usually they will be part of a form and will only take effect when you submit that form using a button.

On the other hand, something that looks like a toggle usually takes effect immediately on toggling.

Of course it is technically always possible to have each of those behave like any of the others, but you will be breaking conventions if you do so. Styling is an affordance to inform the user about the behaviour.

The Louvre has two paintings with that name it seems, but I’m guessing it must be this one (this is the other one).

And then there’s Toto, who actually have a million hits, but each of them feels like it must be some band’s one-hit wonder, until you find out that it’s another Toto song.

I might be a little more informed because I’m Dutch, but Vermeer is fairly well-known, and e.g. The Milkmaid and View of Delft are, I believe, other fairly famous paintings of his (albeit less famous than The Girl with the Pearl Earring).

Vermeer might have been a pupil of Carel Fabritius, who was a pupil of Rembrandt. The interesting thing about Fabritius is that many of his paintings got destroyed in an explosion (that also killed Fabritius), and only about a dozen remain. Which I think is also mind-blowing: this potential important link between two famous painters might very well himself have produced such wonders, but we’ll never know.

(If you’re ever in the area, I would highly recommend a visit to the Mauritshuis in The Hague. And if you like reading, The Goldfinch (referencing the Fabritius painting) by Donna Tartt is the novel that got me into all this in the first place.)

I mean, they can, and they can also be made to be mutually exclusive - but it’s better to use radio buttons in that case. If that pattern is used, there’s not really a good way that a checkbox will take effect immediately beforehand, or whether it will require submitting a form, except scanning the full page to look for such a button.

I was thinking “woah, time doesn’t pass that fast”, but this time, it actually doesn’t. Snowden’s whistleblowing was in 2013, so 13 years ago.

It’s nice to be able to know that they take effect immediately though, instead of needing to click a submit button.

Called it.

Thanks for organising!

From the earlier post: https://d2jam.com/c/lemmyvision-3

It’s a trap! After you’ve signed this, every other petition you will encounter will make you wonder why you signed this one, but wouldn’t sign that one. You’ll be signing petitions for the rest of your life!