Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…

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    It’s like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom’s credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he’s up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

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      mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh

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      I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

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        I think black is cool. But only because I’m lazy and it by default looks good with every other color and doesn’t clash.

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      His parents should have been a little firmer with him. “Young man, I don’t want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!”

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    Cool, can’t wait until they ban the use of the letter ‘e’ for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

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        I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.

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            The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.

            Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.

            If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.

            Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
            “Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
            Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.

            The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.

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    Someone please make a lemmy client with a word filtering option so I can stop hearing about elmo

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          There’s plenty of communities on Lemmy that don’t discuss Elon at all. Curate your own homefeed

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            are there any communities that discuss technology advancements ? I can’t find any sub for technology enthusiasts.

            edit: ah gotcha you’re just telling him to go away while trying to sound reasonable.

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              You and the other guy both sound like you’re whining that free content isn’t being catered to your every taste for you when you have every tool at your disposal to curate your own content.

              Y’all are entitled as shit.

        • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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          Unless every finger on your hand is broken, it’s always viable. And if every finger is broken, I’m pretty sure you’ve got bigger problems.

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      I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either “the biggest twat on the planet” or “this dipshit”, depending on which works better syntactically.

      // ==UserScript==
      // @name         Text Replace
      // @version      0.1
      // @description  Text Replace
      // @author       SiameseDream
      // @include     *
      // @grant        none
      // @namespace beepboop
      // ==/UserScript==
      
      (function() {
          'use strict';
      
      var replaceArry = [
          [/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
          [/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
          [/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
          [/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
          [/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
          [/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
          // etc.
      ];
      var numTerms    = replaceArry.length;
      var txtWalker   = document.createTreeWalker (
          document.body,
          NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
          {   acceptNode: function (node) {
                  //-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
                  if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
                      return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
      
                  return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
              }
          },
          false
      );
      var txtNode     = null;
      
      while (txtNode  = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
          var oldTxt  = txtNode.nodeValue;
      
          for (var J  = 0;  J < numTerms;  J++) {
              oldTxt  = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
          }
          txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
      }
      })();
      
      

      In practice it looks like this

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        Downvoting is kind of unfair because it is technology based, ignore button just ignores that specific post, unsubscribe unsubscribes me from all technology posts which I don’t want

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      11 months ago

      Why didn’t you downvote this thread? In kbin I can see who downvoted it and you’re not there.

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    I have a suggestion for him: wouldn’t it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?

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    As if I needed any more reason to never use that garbage.

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    He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired…

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        Thank you for thinking about accessibility. I am unable to see white text on a black background for more than half a minute, or end up seeing just a blur.

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          I’m photosensitive and also contrast sensitive, so going from dark mode to light mode can trigger migraines in me, on top of astigmatism making reading on dark mode more difficult in general. Elon Musk, along with sadly a lot of folks, can’t see beyond his own experience.

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          It depends on your level of astigmatism. For a lot of folks with it, white text on a black background gets blurry thanks to an effect called halation.

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    Huh, I guess app users are fucked, but what for the website I bet there would be workarounds.

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      Yup. You can’t stop a browser that has the capability to pick and choose what elements it downloads, and can also insert its own.