The vlogger says "subscribe so you don't miss it!". At that exact moment, assuming you are not full screen, a little rainbow shimmer runs over the "Subscribe" button under the video.
…did the vlogger set a flag somewhere, or is Google doing speech rec to look for the word "subscribe" in videos and triggering a CSS effect when it finds it? Does this happen in all videos now?
Reflecting on notation and programming, I do have a certain conceptualization of the free software outlook as a kind of malicious compliance with the approach of literate programming, like making the information accessible in theory, but not in practice to the regular users, only to a certain kind of weird specialist
(Now to be clear this has nothing to do with the real origin story of free software, which is that it's basically a reactionary movement from the days when most of the regular users basically were the weird specialists who wanted to make changes to the new, weird proprietary software)
Like I consider the line-numbers-BASICs among the popular languages that most aimed at new user comprehensibility, and yet I distinctly remember as a kid trying to figure out how to detect keypresses without blocking by reading the code of an example program that was doing it, and I eventually had to just look it up in a reference book, because the INKEY$ function-that-looks-like-a-variable is totally irregular and I couldn't figure out what was going on from the code
Now I do have a certain amount of hope for someone somewhere to one day do something with a fundamentally different UX than pushing blocks of text around, like it's 1978 and we're really proud of our newfangled glass ttys, but it is unclear at this point even an approximate idea of what that might be
In any case, the question I was getting to is: which is the effect and which is the cause? is the cause of better exposition held up by bad languages? or are languages bad at this because being better at it is not what programmers want to do?
Every time I see the dumb "choose a country" popup, I think: one day they're gonna learn what SEO means and their heads are going to literally explode like a watermelon getting hit with the subspace explosion wave from Star Trek VI
@kiwa Essentially they want to be used in PS/2 set 3 mode for all the keys to work; you can of course use them on a PC with
a real PS/2 keyboard port w/ legacy i8042 keyboard controller that you can use in linux with the classic kernel params and key mapping tools,
@kiwa but for random use with USB things you can use them with a usb/ps-2 adapter firmware like soarer's converter that supports set 3 and arbitrary remapping