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Down there – he said – are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.
–Terry Pratchett , “Guards! Guards!”
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Did you know that if you change the `dl=0` at the end of a dropbox link to `dl=1` it’ll just automatically download instead of taking you to that dumb webpage that plays videos terribly?
You did? Great.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU CHANGE IT TO `raw=1` IT WILL LOAD THE ACTUAL FILE IN THE BROWSER WINDOW WTF HOW DID I JUST FIND THIS
—@dan
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @changeling And yeah, we have to tell people sometimes that, based on either budgetary constraints or staffing resources, this thing you want can't be done. Now if you want this to go way over budget, sure we'll gladly create you a custom accessible thingy that does exactly what you want it to do.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @changeling My accessibility brain is always pinging.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala I totally get trying to find ways to solve a problem, what I'm objecting to is the demand for features, especially expensive ones, without any consideration of why they might not have been done. It's the it's-so-easy-why-hasn't-this-been-done-yet from people who have no idea about how any of this works that burns me.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala Yeah the privacy stuff to. And you have to know what the obstacles are so you can work around them, either with lots of money to pay for servers and people to do the work, or possibly really idealistic software contributors who you can hopefully convince to take on a huge task like that for a very long time with no compensation.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala Yeah the privacy stuff to. And you have to know what the obstacles are so you can work around them, either with lots of money to pay for servers and people to do the work, or possibly really idealistic software contributors who you can hopefully convince to take on a huge task like that for a very long time with no compensation.
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@changeling @SingingNala @objectinspace You have to bring up the infeasibilities because you can't just hope your way into stuff like that happening.
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@changeling @SingingNala @objectinspace You have to bring up the infeasibilities because you can't just hope your way into stuff like that happening.
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@changeling @SingingNala @objectinspace You just added a whole separate level of complexity, because then while searching there has to be a check for optin.
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@changeling @SingingNala @objectinspace You just added a whole separate level of complexity, because then while searching there has to be a check for optin.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @changeling And yeah there's the safety stuff too.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @changeling And yeah there's the safety stuff too.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala Wanna talk about a scaling problem? *that* would be a scaling problem, to say nothing of everyone unintentionally DDOSing smaller servers.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala Wanna talk about a scaling problem? *that* would be a scaling problem, to say nothing of everyone unintentionally DDOSing smaller servers.
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@objectinspace @changeling @SingingNala This is another one I love. People are like "Add full text search!" and I'm like "Do you guys realize how expensive that is from a technical standpoint? You want to be able to search all the text across thousands plus of servers and you still want things to be fast and all that?"