Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @Zoë O'Connell, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.
It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.
@Alisdair Calder McGregor aaaaasanyway, must dash. Got a subtropical sunset to watch over my citrus trees, safe in the knowledge that I have no pubic lice.
The acquisition of a PICADE has me playing OUTRUN. This is a game that I remember from my youth with spectacular graphics. The graphics are, in fact, shit. It also has HGVs doing in excess of 180kph. I am questioning SEGA’s commitment to realism.
Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.
The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.
So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?
I think I’ve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that “Royal Match” gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button you’d normally click for the default “carry on with expected behaviour” is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default “I want to quit and try again” button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
They made their int
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I think I’ve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that “Royal Match” gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button you’d normally click for the default “carry on with expected behaviour” is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default “I want to quit and try again” button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
They made their interface bad and confusing on purpose.
Update: I think I've found what's upsetting it. When I uploaded the blocklist csv, it seems to have added an empty server block to the end of the list.
I can't delete it from the UI. How can I get rid of it manually?
