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8 votes
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Is the F-35 worth $115 million? An engineering deep-dive
5 votes -
We need more broadband internet than ever with Covid keeping us at home
9 votes -
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
19 votes -
LinkedIn’s alternate universe - How the professional platform makes networking weird
11 votes -
Spotify claims it’s dominating the podcasting market because of a million-plus tiny podcasts
8 votes -
Google announces Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A 5G phones, new Chromecast, and Nest Audio smart speaker
13 votes -
Linus Tech Tips - $1500 PC Secret Shopper 2 (full playlist)
15 votes -
Notable developer Hector Martin "marcan" starts Patreon to fund Apple Silicon Linux port
21 votes -
How the Internet failed and how to recreate it
6 votes -
Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Slack for approximately $27.7 billion
23 votes -
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
16 votes -
I hacked into my own car
7 votes -
Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network
13 votes -
Looking Glass Portrait: Kickstarter campaign
5 votes -
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
Microsoft is selling an ugly MS Paint sweater and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code
8 votes -
Vimeo is not very good
(This is kind of a rant about Vimeo's website. It might be better in ~tech, or ~comp. Feel free to move it.) I've always preferred using Vimeo to YouTube for finding interesting videos because...
(This is kind of a rant about Vimeo's website. It might be better in ~tech, or ~comp. Feel free to move it.)
I've always preferred using Vimeo to YouTube for finding interesting videos because it's more oriented towards artists than people just uploading random stuff. As mentioned in the recent What Creative Projects Have You Been Working On? thread, I had some nature videos I shot of hummingbirds and wanted to upload them somewhere. My spouse had uploaded videos to Vimeo before, so I thought I'd put them there rather than YouTube because I don't like dealing with Google.
The site is a hot mess. I've hit the following problems after lightly using it for 2 days. I uploaded a single video and set it to be public:
- No way to enter keywords or tags. Searching will only find your video if you mention the search terms in your title (and maybe your description).
- Some of their own pages are broken or missing. If I go to "categories" and click on "documentary" it shows me an error message saying the page doesn't exist. If I click on "arts" or "music" I go to that category and see videos available.
- No information on how to add your video to a given category. Is it done automatically? Is it done by someone on the staff noticing and adding it? I have no idea!
- My video has gotten a few views from people here, so it is uploaded and available for anyone to see. But if I search for "hummingbird" and limit the search to videos uploaded in the last 7 days, my video is not displayed. Why not? Who knows?
- I ran the iOS app without logging in and it showed my account but said I had no videos, even though others were able to see them. Logging in shows the videos and confirms that they are set to allow anyone to view them. WTF?
- I attempted to send them a message telling them about the broken links. When you go to the help section and click on "Contact Us," you get a fake chat window that's just a bot that will pick keywords out of your question and reply with articles that don't answer your question. In fact, they even ask below each one, "Does this answer your question?" with a button for yes and nothing else. There's no way to say, "No, this was unhelpful." If you scroll to the bottom of the list of articles they recommend, there's a button to send a message to their tech support.
- I'm on the free tier, so I wasn't expecting any sort of answer to my help question, but still wanted to let them know so they could fix it. But that didn't work either. They have enough sense to copy your question from the chat bot into the tech support form (nice!) but it strips out any URLs. (Thanks! Very useful since I was trying to report a broken URL!) But it doesn't matter anyway because after you choose a category (none of which are correct) and attempt to submit your form, nothing happens. You press "Next" and the button turns into a spinner for a few seconds, and then stops and turns back into the "Next" button. Nothing appears to have been submitted, but no error is presented.
- The site is full of dark patterns. I get that they want upgrade revenue coming in, and I have no problem with that. But they do things like have a blinking icon in your video's settings for "interaction tools." These are things you can do to monetize your video, or whatever. Stuff I will never need. All the options in this section require a paid upgrade and there's no way to turn off the blinking beacon (except, I assume, by upgrading).
I was considering upgrading to their bottom-tier paid account, but after seeing how much is broken, I have to wonder if they're circling the drain? I get using chat bots and forms to make it easier for their support people, and making sure users know about ways to upgrade, but this is ridiculous. Anyone else run into this?
26 votes -
Markets are not incompatible with discrimination (2014)
2 votes -
How machine-readable content benefits everyone who publishes content online
4 votes -
Mutt releases version 2.0
16 votes -
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' aims to bring Android apps to Windows 10
7 votes -
Google Desktop (2004) - demo and retrospective
6 votes -
In pursuit of intentionality
7 votes -
How Qanon invaded moms' Facebook groups
11 votes -
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
18 votes -
Protein folding, 2020
7 votes -
The impact of toxic influencers on communities
11 votes -
Popular pirate sites disappear from DuckDuckGo top results
25 votes -
Teddit: A privacy-friendly Reddit frontend similar to Invidious/Bibliogram/Nitter
18 votes -
Project Latte by Microsoft aims to bring Android apps to Windows and the Microsoft Store
11 votes -
Tony Hsieh, former Zappos CEO and visionary, dies at 46
8 votes -
Invid - iOS app for Invidious (sideloaded, no jailbreak necessary)
8 votes -
How do you think software services should be monetized?
A year ago, I asked if people would pay for social media platforms and search engines if they could guarantee no data collection and no ads (although in hindsight, I wanted to ask people for...
A year ago, I asked if people would pay for social media platforms and search engines if they could guarantee no data collection and no ads (although in hindsight, I wanted to ask people for basically all software services) and people overwhelmingly said no. Given how Facebook is dealing with the election and YouTube has taken control of monetization for the sake of more advertisements, I wonder what do people think is the right way for software makers to make money.
18 votes -
European Parliament votes for right to repair
19 votes -
Primary Lemmy instance enables federation
13 votes -
Tool for adding trigger warnings to links
6 votes -
A visit from The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk
14 votes -
Redesigning the intubation box to better protect first responders
4 votes -
What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
19 votes -
Folding@Home ARM client now available
12 votes -
Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
6 votes -
Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth
12 votes -
President of Havas Canada on microservices, bad metrics, UX vs CX and more
3 votes -
YouTube Vanced: A privacy-friendly YouTube app for Android with ads and telemetry stripped out
38 votes -
What the web still is - A look at some of the positive characteristics of the current state of the web
7 votes -
'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
10 votes -
Almost Wikipedia: Eight early encyclopedia projects and the mechanisms of collective action
9 votes -
Gopher, Gemini and the smol internet
21 votes -
Apple MacBook iFixit teardowns: something old, something new
13 votes