> Nova Launcher 8.0.18 Beta has been released! 🎉
>
> - Dock placement improvements on large screens
Unfortunately, it is not an improvement, it's a regression to the old Nova 7 placement of the search bar and dock for large screens when in landscape mode.
Nova 7:
Search bar: Left (or right)
Dock bar: right
Nova 8 fixed this:
Search bar: Top (or bottom)
Dock bar: bottom
Today, with 8.0.18 Beta:
Search bar: Left (or right)
Dock bar: right
Which is very annoying and very confusing for someone like me who is autistic. The correct way is:
Search bar: Top (or bottom)
Dock bar: bottom
for both landscape and portrait modes.
There is also no option to return it to Top/bottom mode.
(you'll have to click on each post as Twitter doesn't display the reply-tree well)
Summary:
They're too busy to add an option to choose between left/right and top/bottom when in landscape mode.
(Even though they already have the code, just add an option to switch?? Since according to them we are a minority, then there should be less bug reports (if any), so just offer a switch so the minority can choose it, it's working anyway.)
So, they chose to force everyone back to Nova 7 default - left/right in landscape.
Also, it is the spec and what Google is doing.
The lack of consistency and bad UX when switching between Home and App Drawer (left/right and top/bottom respectively) is also just following #Google.
A very strange way to word it. It gives me a picture that there are strong disagreements in the company of Nova vs. the developers.
Well, it's understandable. I've worked in CS for 20 years, and yes, 70% to 80% of the time, we disagreed with the developers. ROFLMAO!!!!
But, seriously, when Nova launcher first launched, it's objective was to provide a better Android launcher with features and options that the users needs not to just follow Google blindly. (Keywords there are: follow and blindly.)
That convinced me to go Pro.
Sadly, it appears that things changed. The mission and vision now is to follow Google even if there is no consistency in UX with the way Google do things.
I hope we don't see less features from Nova in the future, because there are other things Nova implemented that is not the way of Google. I mean, if their new objective is to just follow Google, it makes me worry for its future.
> We received countless pieces of negative feedback regarding Nova 8's original dock placement, and precisely zero pieces of positive feedback until now.
Oh, and I did praise Nova 8 when it fixed the landscape left/right bug. (Yes, I consider it a bug.)
So, no, it wasn't “precisely zero pieces of positive feedback until now”. Failed attempt at blaming a [pro] user.
In any case, it is human nature to be vocal about things they don't like. So, even if it is “precisely zero”, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
Anyway… nothing can be done there. What's important is I've said my piece, brought it up to them. No regrets on my part.
O, ex-#Twitter znowu ma problemy u niektorych osob - u jednych nie dziala bez zadnego dokladniejszego komunikatu, a u innych ponoc problemem jest wlaczona ochrona sledzenia w #Firefox 🙃
I don’t really use Twitter anymore, I have a burner that I just use for sports and weather and news and never post from. But every time I open it, I have to question my sanity.
I just read an article about how there is an ice cream that is designed to, and I am not making this up, “taste like your grandma”
I subsequently read another article about how the New York Knicks won an NBA playoff game because someone let out “an epic fart”
These are real things. You can look them up.
Are people just getting more insane? Should I double up on my meds?
on certain crappy sites you see these panels of clickbaity links to dubious stories about celebrity scandals or weight loss tips, etc
i read an article about how they shove this miasma of emotional enthrallment bait out there and based on which crap gets more clicks they adjust the algorithm and drill down on that topic and that outrage/ drama angle for even more low quality engagement
based on your experience, apparently, this cesspool of link crap is now all #twitter is
Yeah but you're missing out on certain content and being shoveled certain other nasty content you never want to see (before discovery, before your careful curation, but that's still an effect on your experience by what the algorithm amplifies/ suppresses)
This hobbles your experience to what glorious edgelord manchild #Elon thinks you should see
Lose #Twitter. Delete your account. I had thousands of followers. I killed it all and deleted all my years of posts.
Google's sorry excuse for a "Web filter" demonstrates how much they plan to stuff AI down our throats and arrogantly starve for views the very sites that their AI is getting its info from. DISGUSTING. I'm starting to feel about #Google Search the way I now feel about #Twitter / X. Gone into the dumpster.
X, a.k.a. Twitter is done, it will not email me a code recover my password despite my 10 requests. Perhaps X won't help due to my account having "COVID" in the name which Elno bans.
And Facebook hackers took over a San Francisco group I belong to. Hackers renamed the group in honor of the vaccinated-yet-antivaxx-evangelizing governor Ron DeSantis.
It's frustrating how many organisations are still using Twitter to announce important info to the public. There is no way for most people to see this info! Most people aren't on Twitter, and Twitter now requires a sign-on just to view profiles.
If you want to announce stuff to the public, the only way to make sure it's visible to everyone is to use your own website, your own blog, your own social media server. Anyone with an internet connection can see them.
“No other American megabillionaire businessperson has so publicly fostered ideological relationships with world leaders to advance personal politics and businesses.”
The @nytimes looks into Elon Musk’s use of X to build influence with nationalist and right-wing politicians, publicly backing their views, aggressively confronting their enemies, and even personally intervening in X’s content policies in ways that appear to aid them — and all to the benefit of his other businesses. Here’s more.
It's hard to imagine #StackOverflow made their decision without considering the fate #Twitter and #Reddit suffered. That they willingly chose to burn the remaining goodwill they had with their users is bewildering.
Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.
A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.
So, a half-Filipino half-Nigerian was offended by something written in the Filipino language and called the staff and restaurant as “racist” against Black people.
> Sa nakablack na nakaupo sa 14 kulot ang buhok kamukha ni black jack.
It literally translates as: The one in black sitting on 14 curly hair look alike of black jack.
Proper English translation: The one wearing black, on table 14, with curly hair, who is a look alike of Blakdyak.
This is the customer's rant on social media:
> This behavior was exhibited by one of their staff members, who took it upon herself to make remarks about my appearance based on my racial background. As an individual of Nigerian and Filipino descent, I know I’m different. But was the note necessary?
Read the English translation again and answer these questions:
Was there a remark about his appearance?
How about if we add, “based on my racial background”?
Was it possible that the staff knew he is half-Nigerian and half-Filipino that the customer has to mention it and how he knows he is different?
Maybe what he was actually offended about was being compared to Blakdyak (in note as “black jack”)?
> Blakdyak was a Filipino actor, comedian and reggae singer. He was known as ‘The King of Pinoy Reggae’.
A question to you, dear reader:
a. Would you be offended if what you're wearing was described?
b. Would you be offended if your hair was described?
c. Would you be offended if you were described as a look a like of a celebrity? (Granted, that celebrity is/was not an a*hole.)
Including the customer's description is not needed especially if they have a table number system any way. However, we do not know what concept the restaurant have.
I, myself, have been to some restaurants which describes their customers.
In one restaurant, they don't have a table number system. It is also their concept to share tables with others. The best way to avoid confusion was to describe the customer.
They don't take names for privacy reasons. Not even nicknames. (A customer can later argue it is not their name. And if a staff gave the nickname, there's a chance of offense or similarly, argue it is not their name.)
In another restaurant, there was an addition, I was compared to some celebrity (I don't recall). My date and I had a fit of laughter after reading it.
Here's an example of one such description about me:
Filipino: 'Yung nakaitim na short black hair.
“'Yung nakaitim” = Wearing [something] black.
In English: The one in black with short black hair.
If it was written in Filipino as: “Yung maitim”, then it can be construed as racist. The word “maitim” in this context is referring to a person's skin color or dark tone.
So, going back to the original issue.
> Sa nakablack na nakaupo sa 14 kulot ang buhok kamukha ni black jack.
EN: The person in black sitting on [table] 14 with curly hair…
If it was written this way:
> Sa maitim na nakaupo sa 14 kulot ang buhok kamukha ni black jack.
EN: The black person…
Or, worse:
> Sa nakablack na kulay kanal na nakaupo sa 14 kulot ang buhok hindi ata nagsuklay kamukha ni black jack.
EN: The person in black, as black as a canal sitting on [table] 14 with curly hair that wasn't brushed…
See the huge difference?
The original note in Filipino:
never mentioned nor implied anything about the customer's skin color.
has nothing to do with the customer being a black person.
Even impossible that the note was referring to him being half-Nigerian and half-Filipino.
The Black Jack (Blakdyak) “remark” was a complement.
Now this foreigner, we're assuming he is a foreigner because he obviously misunderstood Tagalog and he missed the context, is doing everything to sue the restaurant and the staff.
I'm sorry man. It is very clear that you misunderstood the note, and took offense when there was nothing to be offended about.
I pity that restaurant and staff.
This case is no different from foreigners, in particular those from the USA, who saw #KKK in the #Philippines and were offended.
Some of them uploaded videos calling Filipinos racists.
Some of them also had the audacity to “educate” Filipinos.
What's wrong? Missed context… again.
KKK was a revolutionary group that fought against Western invaders, in particular, Spaniards. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the American KKK.
Or, that #Twitter incident wherein a #Ppop group tweeted, “Hello Negros!” And every Western person on Twitter called them “racist” and “educated” them.
Guess what? Missed context yet again!
That P-pop group landed on Negros island, so obviously they tweeted, “Hello Negros!”
When you are from mainland US, and you land in Hawaii, do you say, “Hello Japan!”? ROFLOL.
Only a ‘fraction’ (guesstimate) of “educators” apologised to them. There were even those who defended themselves by suggesting to rename Negros island because Negros is offensive to the people of Negros. Like, uh, they're foreigners who never visited Negros, not even the Philippines, and they knew the people of Negros were offended? Puh-lease.
Anyway. This new case? It's very similar.
Missed context.
Misunderstood language.
And a foreigner trying to “educate” a native he clearly misunderstood.
News / Plaza: Nintendo is discontinuing Twitter sharing support
If you've wanted to post some inkredible drawings to the plaza, you might have noticed that you can't because you don't have a #Twitter account.
This is now changing from June 11th @ 1am BST, where you will be officially able to post to the plaza again as the sharing function will instead go directly to Nintendo servers!
#Splatoon2 is also affected by the change, and it looks like plaza posts will become unavailable after June 11th. The only other game that seems to be affected is the Smash World section in the NSO app for #SuperSmashBrosUltimate.
Die 1. Sitzung ist wieder ausgewählten Abschlussarbeiten gewidmet:
Julia Pabst untersucht, wie #MachineLearning in der #Epigraphik zur Identifikation von Wappen & Inschriften eingesetzt werden kann & Lukas Germann widmet sich den Herausforderungen der Analyse von #Twitter-Daten.
@lemonde#twitter est devenu un réseau de complotistes qui est voué à se désertifier et a disparaitre. Dommage que la modération n'ait pas su ou pas pu les éliminer.