bocops

bocops, 2 days ago to random

#hcaptcha is asking me to identify "items that need combustion engine", while there really aren't any that still need that.

It did so twice in a row, both times not satisfied that I did not click anything, and then resorted to asking me to highlight "the object that does not belong here" - which apparently was the cabbage next to a horse, a tiger and a raccoon.

I feel like the internet is getting dumber by the minute.

bocops, 15 days ago to random

Original #MaterialDesign was first announced at the 2014 #GoogleIO. Happy 10th anniversary!

Too bad we now mostly have to deal with the watered-down variant called #MaterialYou. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw

bocops, 26 days ago to android

Weird bug of the day: #Android code to retrieve location, untouched for months, suddenly stopped working apparently(?) because of a permission problem, sending the Activity into an infinite loop of pausing/resuming.

Force-stopping the app as well as manually giving necessary permissions did not solve the issue, and no amount of debugging helped me identify the actual cause of the problem.

After a device restart, the problem is gone as quickly as it appeared, and I'm none the wiser.

bocops, 27 days ago to Youtube

YouTube pretends to offer me a "reactivation" of a previously used service - but must know exactly that I've never paid for it before, because the small print states something about this offer being for "new users only".

#DarkPattern #YouTube #YouTubeMusic #Google