Hi, person who runs an online store. ๐
So you know, the various pop-ups for browser notifications and your newsletter with 10% off! not only discourage me from buying your stuff but now also encourage me to bad-mouth you to other people.
OK? OK. ๐
I see Brexit is going well.
Now that Iโm getting used to Apple keyboard shortcuts (cmd, etc), it has become frustrating to only have limited access to them on the iPad.
Thankfully touch still works very well, however I am starting to think Iโll just end up using a MacBook for my mobile computing.
And for my third tech gripe of the day:
iPad hardware support, especially for keyboard shortcuts… ๐
I was feeling good about Quotebacks as a generic web tool but the fact that the keyboard shortcut for the Firefox extension doesn’t just work for me is a bad sign.
Too much of indie web type software continues to be this way; in need of messing about with settings to be useful.
I am baffled by the fact that Apple hasn’t made exceptions for Mozilla, so that Firefox can truly exist on iOS.
Right now it seems like Windows is a better option for open web advocates, especially when you factor in Microsoft’s massive pro-developer push in recent years.
There should be some sort of fine-based punishment for companies who make product-related instructions available via PDF and it is literally just an image of the physical copy.
Re-reconsidering my email situation. Going to give the rules and filters for Proton a good go before thinking about switching; I need to actually deal with my existing mail rather than hide that task with the false work of switching provider.
Time is a good decision-maker.
Time to entirely retreat back to my blog, with Micro.blog being my only social media. As soon as Bokeh is released, that’ll at least be a good place for private sharing of photos (undecided on whether to use it for public yet) and that’ll be all.
Reminder for myself: Never Silo
The mute tool for Micro.blog is great. ๐
Lockdown restrictions on Tuesday ๐ฌ
This morning I have exercised more for one day than has been the case for years. Very much on track with my plan to significantly improve my fitness; the next step is to give the local gym a try.
I forgot just how good it feels to get moving with such intent. ๐ช
The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.
– Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee
Apple: Developers dare to not use IAP and freeload.
Also Apple: Here, have 24 hours notice for the full release of the new version of iOS.
The degree to which Tim Cook is an under-reported asshole with regard to developer releations is astonishing.
I know that I have blood on my hands by now.
– Sophie Zhang
A data scientist formerly employed by Facebook as part of its moderation efforts against corruption has spoken out. If you’re going to keep using Facebook, at least read about the cost of that decision.
Looks like the foldable device revolution is still going well.
Thinking of going back to Fastmail. Protonmail is good but I can’t use it with a different app and their own app is meh at best.
A heatwave in September… yep, totally normal.
Reminders;
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๐คจ
Looking at my local gyms. If I could just rent out a treadmill that’d be great…
It was impossible to speak to a human at Instagram … It is like they don’t want to be contacted.
– Emma Heathcote-James, via the BBC: ‘Scammer clone my business on Instagram’
A frightening and depressingly familiar story.
If you are cloned, take a photo of yourself with some official ID and email Facebook
– advice from Jake Moore, security specialist at anti-virus company ESET
I loathe the degree to which so much of our society has surrendered its power to shitty companies.