Techbrodudes reinvent something that's been around for ages, only making it worse.
You know, public transit has been around for AGES before you got your grubby little rent-seeking mitts on it and tore it down, you festering horde of goblins!
Remember #Patreon set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to #trick you into oversharing?
I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.
I gotta say, they really sh*t the bed on this #redesign. It's #TERRIBLE. It's huge, it's #slow, and like way too many new designs these days, it wastes an inordinate amount of the available screen space, so it's hardly showing you any actual content at all.
The old feed was approximately 237 times more useful than the new design. Give or take.
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
The actual 3-phase motor is #simple - that's one of the reasons they're used in industry, simple means less to go #wrong. And it appears to be well-made, so there are #quality#bearings and #windings and everything in it. But the motor itself isn't expensive. Rheem probably doesn't pay more than USD 100 for that part of it, and maybe less.
Please provide me with arguments about why this is a good idea. I have a tenuous understanding of Canadian law and am leaning towards it not being a good idea.
It isn't a good idea. It's a #terrible idea that #politicians in #Canada latched on to to show they're "standing up to big US tech companies", and which the big Canadian #media backed as (what they thought would be) a big cash cow.
I'm 100% with you that the #government has no business deciding what qualifies as "#news".
Canadian media companies are going to see their traffic drop 50-80% - including the ones with no seat at the negotiating table.
Dealing with FreeLawChat