The cognitive friction of a slow PC is like sandpaper to my brain

So much room for ~~activities~~ silliness!

Yeah I used it to manage my finances. In my banking app it just shows up as:
Amazon $24
Amazon $12
Amazon $16

Before, I checked the emails to label and tag the transactions according to what they actually were: electronics, furniture, etc. Now I have to log in and track down that one hidden page that splits your purchases into actual transactions instead of one infinite scrolling list of items, because Amazon will group the purchases seemingly arbitrarily based on it's own shipping algorithm.

They made the entire UX hostile just to spite A.I. users. Not the first time they've done something similar; I'm getting pretty tired of their shit. In fact, I think I'm going to try some alternatives in my country and see if they're better to use.

*Gives A.I. agent access to credit card*

I need a tungsten cube

Did you actually look at how it's implemented in the linked GitHub thread?

How it works is it takes the child view, and stuffs it into the password field. iOS automatically hides the password content (the dots) in screenshots, so by stuffing the view into there it gets hidden in screenshots. I then added the logo, and absolutely positioned the follow button on top of it. when the button is hidden, the watermark is revealed!

Absolute positioning layering hacks based on a quirk of how iOS currently handles child nodes of password fields when the dots would push content out of the parent node in screenshots. The filename of this feature is literally called "growth-hack". I dunno what else to tell you man, but if you like it, I'm happy for you. But it's clearly bad code.

As for the second part of your comment; normal users don't look at source code. That argument means nothing in this context.

The consequences could be anything, that's the problem with unintended usage of features. Could be an ugly black box drawn on screen. Could be nothing. Could something subtle like the follow button doesn't work anymore because the invisible logo now blocks tap events.

This is exploiting an edge case behaviour of a security feature. At a programming level, this is bad code, and will break at some point, possibly in an ugly way. I also don't like the idea of apps being sneaky and hiding behaviour from users.

I use Voyager, and there's a button "share as screenshot / image", which allows you to include a watermark, and shows you exactly what the end result will look like. Just do something like that instead?

Yeah I feel like these inventions such as pervert glasses, smart doorbells, and now this, is to get as many cameras running 24/7 around the planet as possible. The best part is that consumers will subsidise them

What's the bet the logo is A.I. generated as well?

I wonder if at some point we will just get a completely A.I. interface? Like no buttons, no text fields, nothing for people to worry their pretty little heads about and get confused with. You have to describe what you want done to the A.I. who will do it for you. "You missed a comma just after the word 'backwards' but before the 'the'. No not that one… yes you got it. Can you undo your previous change that you did by mistake? God fucking dammit Gemini. Ok I'm sorry, can we keep working?"

Also Paint it Black

This is specifically for neighbourhood-level news. Think those Facebook groups people report lost dogs and cats and plan events.

Chicago has a relatively rich nonprofit news scene that includes robust neighborhood-level news coverage.

They hope to build a participatory community resource that informs everything from where to volunteer, to plans for the weekend, to how neighbors can meet one another.

I'm not sure Lemmy has all the features they want out of their platform. They could host it, but it sounds like they want to verify membership, charge fees, have calendar integration, etc. Lemmy is decentralised, it sounds like they want to build something centralised.

It has many of the hallmarks you picture when you think of a social platform: a feed, posts, reaction buttons. The feed is ordered reverse chronologically, not algorithmically, and can be filtered by topics like arts & culture or pets. There’s a separate, second feed that features posts the community steward has flagged to bring to members’ attention. Posts might be introductions, or events, or requests or offers of help, or steward-posted discussion prompts or guides. There’s also a calendar feature, where users can submit or look for events.

No idea how they plan to monetise this. Also of course they have an A.I. clanker moderating all the posts, but at least they have an escape hatch.

Posts are automatically moderated by an AI-powered tool that checks them against community guidelines, though posters can also flag posts for review by the human steward.

If the system thinks a user’s message may not meet community standards, like it’s inflammatory or obscene, they can’t post it right away. However, users always have the ability to go around the automation and have a local human steward review their message. This is important because the AI might not be correct, and it gives appropriate agency to users and stewards.