Vincent

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5d ago

Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202
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Vincent @feddit.nl 5d ago
I saw a mention in this week's report :)
Most of the team is heads down building out a sports-tracking widget, attempting to get that ready in time to be generally available for the upcoming World Cup event.

5d ago

Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202

Oh! I'm running Nightly on my phone but I haven't seen the countdown timer yet. Maybe I'm in too niche of a country to get the goods early.

6d ago

Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202

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Vincent @feddit.nl 6d ago

Yeah I'm not saying that it's not in development; just that maybe it just hasn't been announced yet?

6d ago

European Parliament committee votes to scrap US tariffs

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Vincent @feddit.nl 6d ago

I mean, the choice is basically between 15% tarrifs in the US and 0% in the EU, or more in both. Both hurt the EU, but the latter hurts the EU more - it just also hurts the US more.

6d ago

European Parliament committee votes to scrap US tariffs

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Vincent @feddit.nl 6d ago

Europe has a weak negotiation position because it's not willing to hurt itself.

6d ago

Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202

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Vincent @feddit.nl 6d ago

Well, were other things announced before they got to phase 3? Is phase 3 something special before which things are usually formally announced? Or might this just still be a little bit too early in development?

7d ago

Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202

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Vincent @feddit.nl 7d ago

Well, and there's the public repository and bug tracker, which you just linked to :P

What does phase 3 mean in this context?

2w ago

Ireland to pass law banning goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank

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Vincent @feddit.nl 2w ago

The Dutch government is looking to instate the same: https://nos.nl/artikel/2615423-kabinet-wil-handelsverbod-voor-producten-uit-illegale-israelische-nederzettingen

3w ago

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages

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Vincent @feddit.nl 3w ago

It does sound like SUSE mainly removed them due to issues specifically with how Deeping was packaged for SUSE. It's likely that there were also issues with Fedora's packaging (if that was also handled by upstream), but not necessarily that they were the same issues, so I get why they wouldn't just blindly copy their decision.

(It also looks like Deepin's working to correct the SUSE-specific issues, which is good to see.)

3w ago

Chocolate

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Vincent @feddit.nl 3w ago

Honestly their main downside. Especially that big piece that you just cannot break into smaller pieces.

3w ago

Where is he?

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Vincent @feddit.nl 3w ago

Is the joke that nobody knows what it says on the blackboard?

3w ago

Post-truth society.

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Vincent @feddit.nl 3w ago

Author handle to hopefully make them easier to follow (and at least notify them that they're on Lemmy): @royaards@newsie.social

4w ago

Europe set for easier train journeys as EU unveils single-ticket plan

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

Interestingly the European Rail Passengers Union (@erpu@eupolicy.social) isn't wholly positive; see this thread: https://eupolicy.social/@erpu/116566721075134554

Apparently it's still going to be quite a bit of work to find the best place to buy a ticket if your trip crosses more than one border, and your existing discounts are unlikely to apply.

Still, it will hopefully be an improvement over the situation today.

4w ago

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

No, I was already convinced that relying on colour alone is insufficient. I still think they can be useful helpful if they don't rely on colour alone.

4w ago

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

True, there are exceptions (that's why I keep saying most), and I think the pattern is more common on web than on desktop. (Though I think Gnome also compensates a bit with their boxed lists as an additional affordance.)

Note that I am 100% on your side in saying that there are annoying toggle boxes that are unclear. In your image, I can only tell that the second is probably on because the right-hand side is usually used for the on state in LTR locales. But they can be better, e.g. with an on/off label integrated. Ironically, GNOME has a toggle to enable this:

4w ago

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

Well, I'd encourage you to keep an eye out; I think you'll find that the majority of controls on the web behave as I described. And I think that's a good thing, too: it's far quicker and easier to be able to deduce behaviour from the control you're handling at the moment, than having to scan the complete context. And especially if e.g. you're visually impaired, the latter can be a major hassle.

(And indeed, the other controls you mention almost never apply instantly, so their behaviour is still predictable. When they do, they'll often still have some other affordances to indicate that they do apply instantly.)

4w ago

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

I was trying to make the point that the way a control looks gives you some information on how it will behave, because software has generally been consistent with associating those looks with those behaviours.

So if you see multiple options with a circle in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually deselect the first one.

On the other hand, if those options have squares in front of them, selecting one, then selecting another will usually result in both of them being selected.

And in both cases, usually they will be part of a form and will only take effect when you submit that form using a button.

On the other hand, something that looks like a toggle usually takes effect immediately on toggling.

Of course it is technically always possible to have each of those behave like any of the others, but you will be breaking conventions if you do so. Styling is an affordance to inform the user about the behaviour.

4w ago

What's all this other stuff?

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

The Louvre has two paintings with that name it seems, but I'm guessing it must be this one (this is the other one).

4w ago

What's all this other stuff?

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

And then there's Toto, who actually have a million hits, but each of them feels like it must be some band's one-hit wonder, until you find out that it's another Toto song.

4w ago

What's all this other stuff?

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Vincent @feddit.nl 4w ago

I might be a little more informed because I'm Dutch, but Vermeer is fairly well-known, and e.g. The Milkmaid and View of Delft are, I believe, other fairly famous paintings of his (albeit less famous than The Girl with the Pearl Earring).

Vermeer might have been a pupil of Carel Fabritius, who was a pupil of Rembrandt. The interesting thing about Fabritius is that many of his paintings got destroyed in an explosion (that also killed Fabritius), and only about a dozen remain. Which I think is also mind-blowing: this potential important link between two famous painters might very well himself have produced such wonders, but we'll never know.

(If you're ever in the area, I would highly recommend a visit to the Mauritshuis in The Hague. And if you like reading, The Goldfinch (referencing the Fabritius painting) by Donna Tartt is the novel that got me into all this in the first place.)