@buermann Amazing indeed!
@Transportist oh i'm sure. enshittification is motivated, malice not incompetence.
yes, i've just resorted to a screenshot. of course i had to manually search The Atlantic's site to find a portable link rather than an Apple-News-proprietary link.
@Transportist which link i managed to omit. sheesh. fixing.
@SteveRoth do you agree with these claims? (I mean, would your data series? I'm not asking whether the author has misused the Survey of Consumer Finances.)
from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/us-economy-excellent/678630/
Text: The gold standard for research into the state of Americans’ finances is the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, released every three years. The most recent report found that, from 2019 to 2022, the net worth of the median household increased by 37 percent, from about $141,000 to $192,000, adjusted for inflation. That’s the largest three-year increase on record since the Fed started issuing the report in 1989, and more than double the next-largest one on record. (According to preliminary data from the Fed, wealth continued to rise across the board in 2023.) Every single income bracket saw net worth increase considerably, but the biggest gains went to poor, middle-class, Black, Latino, and younger households, generating a slight reduction in overall wealth inequality (though not nearly as steep a reduction as the decline in wage inequality). By comparison, median household wealth actually declined by 19 percent from 2007 to 2019.
isn't Apple supposed to be good at UI? remember when they had human interface guidelines that were all about consistency?
i'm reading a story in the desktop Apple News app. i want to find a phrase i've read, so Command-f and start typing, like every other application.
no. command-f puts me in the main search bar, so all of a sudden i'm out of my article and finding others with the phrase.
apparently there is no in-article find in Apple News, just Command-f as "Search". it's too much to ask.
also, apparently Apple News won't let you print, not to hard copy, let alone PDF.
it's just pre-enshittified.
@voxofgod in a way!
i think i will have to drive seven miles, physically go to the kid's doctor's office, to make an appointment for him. the online and telephone systems are simply beyond my capacities to penetrate.
UPDATE: 10 minutes before their close time, after about an hour of trying, the endless oscillations between hold music, recordings, and ring tones was interrupted with a human voice and an appointment was made.
Fourteen miles (round trip) of carbon burden avoided!
if you ask your interlocutor "are you human?" and it lies, the liability that attaches to that should be existential.
@pluralistic on CFPB: "the common thread running through all these orders is that they ban deceptive practices – they make it illegal for companies to steal from us by lying to us. Especially in these dying days of class action suits – rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to 'mandatory arbitration waivers' that make you sign away your right to join a class action – agencies like the CFPB are our only hope of punishing companies that lie to us to steal from us." https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism
@grmpyprogrammer in either case, i'd recommend if you can, think about a visit. transylvania is just a lovey place in summertime. sighisoara has its dramatic architecture and vlad dracul history. i haven't been to biertan but it sounds great. it's a big world full of beautiful places, but you have at least a hint of a connection to explore.
What is the best plaintext editor for less technical people?
Like, if a non technical friend was going to edit some config or a bit of boilerplatey code.
Notepad / TextEdit wouldn't be great, but neither would emacs or vim (and they're not going to mess with any IDE).
@phillmv i might put it less uncharitably, in that several of the people in my broad community did come here for a while, got a lot of normative pushback about content warnings and the like, and left. perhaps that reflects can’t be bullied into submission here, but it also rendered here not so hospitable for those conversations. i found i could well enough resolve that issue by switching instances, but that’s burdensome, especially for less technical people, so they just left.
@Alon sounds about right. you can see how one might be torn across ones bridge communities.
my main LLM use case thus far has definitely been thesaurus. it's fun to be able to describe the sense of the word i want, not just spider a graph from some related word as with conventional thesauri. and it's nice to be able to ask for more options providing more hints about what i'm after. but it hasn't been a miracle. it only occasionally offers good candidate words i haven't already considered. most are inevitably bad choices or words i've considered. still, on net it's been helpful.
@franktaber@mas.to @marick i guess you'd like to think noting characteristics of the conveyance would be part of their standard process. but you'd like to think a lot of things, or i would.
@franktaber@mas.to @marick i feel like shelling out ~$5 for certified mail should signal costly genuine interest. but i guess there do exist some very wealthy astroturfers.
@Alon how would you characterize Mastodon?
@design_law hypothesis: if everyone learns swedish we will have better economic policy.
N=1, but it's an undeniable empirical regularity.
i was never an active facebook user, so the comparison is hard for me. i did find twitter a place for interaction with communities of common interest. i find here to be that too, but only some, a particular subset, of my interests seem common. and many of the particular people i used to interact with remain divided between bluesky and twitter. my community here is mostly (not entirely!) new.
we use "visitation" to describe what ghosts do to mortals, and what the unincarcerated do to the incarcerated.
there is perhaps something hopeful in the analogy.
does the Department of Homeland Security (or the Department of Defense for that matter) pay a lot of attention to targets like GitHub or Sonatype?