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RheingoldRiver, to technology in Alphabet Shows the Mega-Layoff Announcements Were Just That, Headcount Dropped Far Less and is Rising Again

It's pretty bad because you need to write for multilingual readers, who may not understand the colloquialism "were just that" & can have a difficult time parsing what the pronoun "that" refers to in such a nonstandard and nonlinear sentence.

If this sentence were part of a novel that already has elaborate prose, it would be fine, but in something designed to inform people on the internet you have to keep in mind how varied your audience is.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Stellantis drops out of CES, blames UAW strike

Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data

You could make a new filetype, default new versions to it, & not break compatibility. Wouldn't do anything for existing workbooks, and keep xlsx an option, but "it would break compatibility" is not a be-all end-all argument against this.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month

I thought they disabled sending mobi files last August? As in, August 2022? Did they postpone it?

RheingoldRiver, to RedditMigration in Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination

Huh? Didn't they start this like last month? Or is this not the "get money from your contributions" thing?

RheingoldRiver, to RedditMigration in Just wanted a warning, Lemmy.World is perhaps worse than reddit at respecting their users

holy shit, I've been reading this url as "sh, it just works" for MONTHS and was super ??? about what it meant. I only just now realized it's "shit just works" and......oh. that makes a lot of sense.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th

For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble

I'd do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I'm not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it's just first name.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night

huh, whatever that is, doesn't federate to kbin

RheingoldRiver, to scifi in “Excruciating To Watch”: Real Astronaut Roasts Apple TV+ Show As “Cartoonish” Sci-Fi

I really enjoyed this show but I also was floored when no one spoke Russian. Every astronaut who works on the ISS today is required to speak both Russian and English. I guess I can see not requiring everyone to speak Russian if it's an adversarial relationship, but imagine not making sure at least one member of the crew spoke it!

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RheingoldRiver, to pentominoes in 8x8 - 4 (corners inset 1 from the edge)

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my god this one was difficult, I spent like 4 hours on it the other day. but then I solved it just now in like 8 (!) minutes (based on discord timestamps of me saying "omg this board is so hard" and then posting a solution).

RheingoldRiver, to technology in Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunch

do you use the swiping function of it? I've found that to be TERRIBLE at "prediction based on context" e.g. understanding if I want "if" or "of" it does the one that doesn't make sense in context. and it doesn't understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

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