Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
How I use a software is not an indication of how I want to use a software.
It’s what I’m doing with the options the software has given.
> Firefox supported apng since 2008...
> Chrome/chromium began support in 2017
christ.
That can't be right, that's absurd. Chrome has a massive market share, and they took that long to add apng support...?
birdsite screenshot, on different terminology between demographics
Oh no now that's just a complete mess.
(https://twitter.com/MorganaRhalina/status/1232380252095238145)
dystopic shitpost
The year is 2080, and Alphabet Inc. owns everything. iOS and Android phones have fused to become the worst of both worlds. Safari is now Chromium-based. The only legal search engine is Google, but Windows 10 keeps Bing as legacy support. Kids wonder why Windows versions 95 and 98 are worse than version 10.
meme, toilet humour
"1 in 30 people poop in the shower" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person never poops in shower. Shitters Georg, who--
So Twitter today changed my timeline back to Home over Latest Tweets and helpfully gave me two separate sets of Discourse being talked about because of pushing the likes into my timeline.
At some point I am going to snap and just delete all of my accounts.
*more* thoughts on UI design, re Firefox
... sometimes I forget that Firefox hasn't had a status bar since like, Firefox 3.0. I greatly disliked this change at the time because I preferred to have the information the status bar presented, and to put things like adblock at the bottom of the UI.
You can't do that now. You have to put addons in the address bar space, and loading bars are in the tab icons only.
... my internet is less shit now so I'm less concerned about the loading bars, but I'm sure some people would still benefit from it.
I've at least used userchrome to create a fake status bar because I prefer to have dedicated space to link previews, because it's distracting to have it as a popup-esque shape.
The status bar thing is obnoxious because Firefox literally just copied Chrome, which also changed to a popup effect at the time.
These habits in design changes are functionality and accessibility problems, and no one in the industry will ever give a shit because trends and pretty looks are more important.
more thoughts on UI design
UI design has been trending towards distributor control/presumption over user control for a while now that by this point people just roll over when software/OSes get harder to use, and distributors know it.
I'm going by memory here, but design trends feel like they went like this:
- mid-90s: Limited system-generated bevels. Functional, perhaps overly so.
- early-00s: Everything looked like gimmicky kids toys. Chaotic and confusing, though you still had the functions if you could find them.
- mid-00s: Toothpaste tubes. Everything was gradients and bevels. Structurally more like the early-00s again, but more about big icons than text.
- 10s onwards: what, YOU own YOUR software? lmao. User customisation gets harder, shapes and presented information cut down further and further.
I'm still really frustrated by Discord's new UI changes. The colour hover effect, the changes in padding, and the lack of dividing line between user posts - they're all accessibility nightmares because they make everything subtly more difficult to read.
Remember when UI wasn't this flat-colour-fill wankfest? Because it's getting harder and harder to remember those days.
vent about tech
I hate the iPad. I hate what it started.
I don't strictly had tablets as an idea, but the iPad kind of spawned a whole lot of other problems, culturally, and in terms of tech design.
- it made people more often use restrictive, locked down machines as their catch-all devices,
- it made the industry try to make their devices stronger walled gardens once they learned they could get away with it
- it made web design prefer to design for mobile than for desktop,
- it bled into desktop design and oversimplified things to appeal to that market
Apple's design sense for its mobile devices has done and continues to do so much harm to tech at large, because everyone has to follow Apple's footsteps to support their users, or to not lose out potential users by providing similar functions.
Shame you can't change your username on Mastodon. If this being Amaterasu really has stuck, maybe I should... change my username.
Of course, if I later collapse in on myself and go back to being Taylor then changing my username back would be kinda embarrassing...
oh my god I am so tired of Twitter changing my timeline back to "Home" algorithmic garbage
There's a point where neglect to make your website not undo settings goes from incompetence to malicious neglect.
birdsite link, musing on qualia
https://twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1221713792913965061
Half the replies to this are "some people don't deal with constant narrative?!" and the others are "wait you hear and actual VOICE in your head?!" and I think we're getting some miscommunication here.
Whenever stuff comes up about thoughts, I think sometimes people think the experiences are a lot more lucid than they are. I (personally, at least) don't *literally* hear a voice when I read or think. I can distinguish my imagination from literal sound. The same goes for "picturing" things - that's another thing I've seen posts confused about.
I'm not going to claim that people that say they don't have an internal voice or can't picture things are wrong or lying, but I do wonder if a lot who do react to these sorts of posts are misunderstanding them.
That said: how the heck does someone without an internal voice read text?? I can concede about an internal narrative being more emotional or visual or anything else but... what happens... when they read books... or posts online...
Hack into people's IoT garbage purely to flash a new rom on them and install Doom.
They don't have to pay a ransom to use their fridge, they just have to beat E1M1 on it.
I'm an artist and something of a game dev living in New Zealand.
I talk about personal things that can get tangentially NSFW. While I wouldn't call this an after-dark account, it's kind of a mishmash personal account and prefer to mingle with people I know or trust.
Joined Sep 2017
