they’re just like “this time there won’t be a 4th panel”

what an incredible jackass

Yeah I remember when people started using “Fake news” in exactly the same way.

It has really improved media literacy and fake news has practically disappeared.

There is an option you can set in .zshrc or .bashrc which only includes lines that exit 0 (success)

That’s super unkind and incorrect. IE was a trash software that was widely available because MS was trying to extend their monopoly into new areas.

Even if it’s not your taste, bash is a mature, stable FLOSS package with wide community support. The reason it is so common is due to it’s positive attributes, not because there is a plot to make it the only choice available to you.

Internet Explorer shell expansion always trips me up.

I’m sure responsibility is variable but kinda sounds like could be a political issue rather than skill at least sometimes. They might be requesting data from elsewhere that comes to them all jumbled. And no authority to demand changes from the source.

Sometimes the chaotic sorting is very intentional, as with amazon. Cory Doctorow has written about how the sorting is one piece of their overall scheme: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

Though once in a while I get prices sorted like $1 $10 $2 $200… If the coder was motivated they could’ve done better.

Anything with time sensitivity, context or relation to other events.

Haven’t you ever read something very differently that was written Jan 2020 compared to April 2020? They’re both “5 years ago”. Or sometimes people will reference current events in passing. If someone mentions “what trump just did” you need to know with more granularity than 1 year to understand.

More mundanely, “Indiana stinks this time of year” is meaningless without knowing the date.

I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation.

Yes that is fair enough it is unlikely to be a correct characterization. I was just annoyed and feeling persecuted by people who make a great platform that I love using.

If I had to make a general rule I would say relative dates for recent but precise for older. “1 hour” is good enough in a lot of cases but “2 years” is too vague.

A fancier UI could have a user setting for what dates to display, or if you click the date it changes to the other format. Maybe even for all dates on the page so it could be quickly toggled. Or clicking the date selects/copies it.

Admittedly a very marginal use case so for a small software, might not be a good use of time.

I think text on the page should be selectable but tooltips should not. Although I do generally appreciate lemmy’s overall use of user-select: none because it omits all the little icons like voting and reply which are unlikely needed and clutter up destination text file. I don’t always love how it skips the link icon because then I need to copy it separately. (Combining the timestamp with the link in the way of old blog trackbacks is still logical.)

I disagree that this software could be functional without some way to show the date. That is a basic functionality.

Having to hover over each individual comment or post rather than displaying on the page means it’s obscured. You can’t see it unless you do something, and then you can only see it for a moment. Even if you want to manually transcribe the date, you can’t type in one window and have that tooltip active in the other so you need to go back and forth unless you can memorize the whole thing at once.

Whether it is a good design decision as is another matter, I can see why you wouldn’t want the full date/time displayed in all situations. Maybe I’m just a freak for wanting to copy the dates.

Nice investigation. :)

If you will go as far back as LJ and phpBB I wouldn’t expect the dates to be relative because it would be extra work for the server. You would have to generate all the dates every time the page loaded? Using… perl? Sounds too demanding. And since everyone was browsing from a computer, not a tiny phone, screen real estate wasn’t at such a premium.

For disallowing selection, the support for user-select has only recently become fully supported across the board.

Fantastic I look forward to it.

I had a quick peek at the style.css:

.user-select-none{
    -webkit-user-select:none!important;
    -moz-user-select:none!important;
    user-select:none!important
}

I know I could use Stylus or Greasemonkey to override that rule. It works when I try it in the inspector. But is there a way to get the full date out of "data-tippy-content" and redirect it to the displayed page?

It is actually pretty easy to answer questions like this by searching the web. Below, I have done some work for you.

First, though, gotta say that the most generous reading of your arguments is that you are philosophically defeatist and suffer from “the perfect is the enemy of the good”---- why do anything except the one final action that will solve it for good? If that is your attitude, why bother posting on a forum? Why bother doing anything?? To learn about the broader strategy, you could try Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions - Wikipedia. Nobody is arguing that MS should be targeted instead of promoting governments to sanction and remove the subsidies that keep it afloat. But Brian Eno thinks he has more sway with MS than with the US government, so that’s what he’s throwing his back into.

‘Microsoft Powers This Genocide’: Firm Fires Pro-Palestine Disruptors of 50th Anniversary Celebration | Common Dreams

The protests come a few months after the publication of an investigation by The Associated Press which found that Israel’s use of Microsoft and OpenAI technology “skyrocketed” following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which prompted Israel’s deadly campaign on the Gaza Strip. Multiple human rights groups have said Israel is guilty of committing genocide or “acts of genocide.”

Specifically, the investigation found that artificial intelligence “models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon.”

Ex-Microsoft employees expose company’s role in Gaza genocide, quoting Hossam Nasr:

there needs to be a focus on Microsoft’s actual business practices as they affect Palestinians in Palestine and as they directly contribute to the genocide and the horrible scenes that we were seeing coming out of Gaza.

And two, the need for a strategy to put pressure on executives rather than trying to appeal to the humanity and moral character of these executives.

We started researching Microsoft’s complicity in the genocide, trying to find out exactly the target and strategy for this campaign.

We then formally launched No Azure for Apartheid in May 2024, with four main demands: IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) off Azure, ending all sales of any Azure cloud and AI services to the Israeli military and government.

Two, disclose all the ties between Microsoft and the Israeli military-industrial complex, the Israeli government and the Israeli military.

Three, calling for a permanent and immediate ceasefire to honour an earlier petition signed by over 1,000 employees.

And lastly, to protect employees and uphold free speech by ending the discrimination and the double standards against Arab, Muslim, Palestinian and allied employees.

Microsoft must be held accountable for its complicity in Gaza genocide, rights group says – Middle East Monitor

According to human rights and media reports, since the beginning of the ongoing war on Gaza in October 2023, Microsoft has provided direct technical support to the Israeli occupation army worth at least $10 million through its Azure cloud platform.

Reports revealed that Microsoft’s support included data management services, the development of targeting systems, advancements in surveillance technologies and the provision of cutting-edge AI tools. These include ‘Lavender’, an AI-powered system designed to identify bombing targets, which has faced accusations of being linked to the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza.

Furthermore, the reports accuse Microsoft of supplying biometric surveillance technologies to track Palestinians. This comes as the death toll has surpassed 50,800 people, including more than 18,000 children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

In a statement, Skyline asserted that Microsoft’s continued support of Israel violates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The organisation urged the company to transparently disclose the nature of its relationship with the Israeli occupation and to terminate all forms of cooperation linked to military activities that breach international law and human rights.

massive overreach by the companies?

The US is a world leader in the “corporations are people” shenanigans. The massive overreach is fait accompli.

Corporations get to do their “Speech” in all kinds of ways such as funding political initiatives, dictating the healthcare their workers receive, etc. In this context, your point falls very flat.

Also, it is general practice in many places that businesses (even those who are not “people”) can refuse to service customers for arbitrary reasons as long as they do not break some superseding law in the process. You can refuse entry to people with dogs, if you don’t like dogs. But usually not to people with service animals, because having a service animal may be a protected class. (On the basis of having a service animal. Of course, if someone comes with one pet dog and one service animal, you don’t have to let the pet in.)

I do not know of any jurisdiction that sets out doing genocide as a protected class.

they blocked “palestine” but not “palestinian”?