This is like the beach that makes you old. You doubt it, you go there, you ignore the “Beach That Makes You Old” sign, the beach makes you old.

Did somebody say Inferno?

Getting mangoed and eating a stone.

Make your data useless or wrong.

More passively, there’s probably an oddly large amount of John Does born on January 1, 2000 ;)

More offensively, anti-image-gen data poisoning such as Nightshade exists. It’s well-defended against IIRC so hopefully someone can Cunningham’s Law correct me. And this is also more solo of a movement (as opposed to gaining mass support for something)

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom

SQL sanitization joke. Won’t affect most databases today.

Disclosure: I’ve done very little UI/UX.

Google’s Material Design (wikipedia) is much more widely-adopted across OSes/Flutter/the web (see how many websites have that dropshadow topbar and ≡?); Microsoft’s Fluent (wikipedia) is Windows-first, but is usable anywhere.

Both are based on responding to user actions. Fluent uses lightup acrylic (translucent) canvases (e.g. hover? border glowy.)

while Google’s Material uses paper-esque whitespace, navbars, dropshadows, and round corners. (e.g. scrolling? dropshadow appears on nav)

Think Microsoft Teams vs. Google Drive.

They’re both full-fledged but Material You is way more common judging by places such as the F-Droid ecosystem on Android. As for which is “better”, Material You supposedly has better colorscheme flexibility since it ‘wants’ to adapt to e.g. user wallpapers. But other than that it’s really just preference (or whether relevant tooling exists :P). I know some devs use Material You for a predictable, unified look across Android apps, while others bend them to their will to reduce animations or whatnot.

If you’re designing something, make sure you keep your own self in the mix too. Breezy Weather uses Material Design, but it’s more customized to have a unique feel than, say, TrackerControl (which also uses Material).

Solitaire 2: Collectors Edition. 175k hours

NOOOOOO HOW DID I GET SHITTYMORPHED ON LEMMY

CRYPT-- oh, you mean how the nice tutorial peeps have affected us.

Vimjoyer has increased the adoption rate for flakes on NixOS. And also NixOS use in general.

Mental Outlaw has probably contributed to new Gentoo users, quoth the meme, but Gentoo is still a dying breed compared to its heyday in the early naughts.

Fireship has made people – particularly CS students I believe – more comfortable with trying out new programming languages. (The “I’ll check out the Fireship video first” approach. But then again, ChatGPT has arguably had the same effect across undergraduates… that’s a digression)

Asahi Lina’s longform Rust dev work, while less of a network effect, has had its own substantial effects within the Asahi Linux “Linux on the M-series” sphere. I believe she also helped port a kind of anime mocap engine onto Linux, which could over the longterm boost the anime-nerd Linux-nerd center Venn diagram. But that’s speculation.

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In a broader perspective, with the combination of SteamOS and large YouTubers trying out Linux, Linux desktop adoption will probably increase more than it has now. I doubt it will pass 10% though with Linux’s reputation (tech nerds, compile all day, games don’t run, command line – even though these are improving, it’s hard to kick)

• Linus Tech Tips - “Linux HATES Me - Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1”
• SomeOrdinaryGamers - “I Installed The Hardest System Known To Man…”
  • not gonna lie I ignored this clickbait but he has “gamers” in his name so he’s probably a gamer

Not sure about the latter, but NZT was the focal “smart” drug in Limitless (a show on the premise “this drug makes u smart but if u stop taking it bad stuff happens”)

Greppability also contributed to this thingy

int
main()
{
  // dam
}

in Mozilla C-style and GNU C-style projects. Of course, it’s a remnant of the past (grep ^main), but kgmgaehgka.

For those who jump around too much like I do, remember:

Not that in particular, but design often comes down to the function f(keywords the branding people like) = very same-looking things. Yay trends.

A lot of fashion companies wanted to be “simple. bold. modern but ready for the future.” Now all their logo fonts are basically the same. It’s also why everyone loves Futura.

With websites, brand people pick the keywords “calm, professional, modern, reliable” and end up with blue so much that it’s the most common website color. So I’m not surprised that the web designers in question picked something “friendly” and “modern” like some font you’d imagine would go well as white text on a matte or charcoal background.

Same reason why I see so much Comfortaa on slideshows (alphabetically near the start of the font list, and f(modern, smart) = title font)

Okay, what were your last ten hyperfixations? (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

And not to hang up on superficial stereotypes but metal is sophisticated too – a lot of the voicing/structure/styling is so classical-and-jazz that, with instrument switches, it can be indistinguishable. Don’t get me started on trying to claw my way through metal time signatures

Case in point: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet 8 (guitar version)

Oh my God I LOVE FONTS

Spartan is a bit wide for me (see that w?) but Lato with a good colorscheme is always sexy

Another thing: if you’re familiar with fonts you can have a weird pseudo-Sherlock funtime guessing how something was made.

points This book is using Georgia instead of Times New Roman. See how the 9 is low? But the page numbers are Times New Roman because the 9 isn’t low. Was paging in the author’s control?

and

font with the light blue shading thing. This club recruitment poster was made in Microsoft Word.

About serif disdain… what about LaTeX’s serif? :}

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vibeo gane,

This is a good take.

Speaking from the same neutral pragmatism, it makes sense to let the default Lemmy web UI be a lightweight, actually-mobile-friendly derivative of old.reddit, rather than a more committed default like Alexandrite or Photon.

Keeping things similar is a good jumping-off point, and if we do want to make some large change, different generations and cultures have heavily varying default preferences. Wouldn’t it be wiser to pick a common ground, something these differing peoples have grown used to, as opposed to some new style A or B or C likes?

(Fun fact: if you think that ppl sticking to old designs is silly, Panasonic has a whole $$ niche in Japan selling modern-internal, vintage-external laptops with DVD drives and old-style keyboards. https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/v0t06p literally has both a VGA and a thunderbolt lol)