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.
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.
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!"
I'm dark mode everything, everywhere, but options are good and taking away options is bad. If people want to sear their retinas by using light mode, they should be able to.
I use light mode because dark mode is far more likely to trigger migraines in me. This is legit an accessibility issue, and he fired the entire accessibility team.
@stopthatgirl7 I also often use light mode on most websites. Since 2 years or so I started using dark mode on several applications or websites as well, but most dark modes suck. Some give me headache or burn my eyes.
Taking the option is really an accessibility issue. Elon tries every trick under the sun to destroy the platform, in ways I could not imagine or forgot. I'm sure there will pop up addons for browsers at least to change the style. Everyone else, good luck.
Yeah light mode doesn't work for me but why in the name of the gods would I want that to mean it's not an option for other people? Compulsory light mode is bad. Compulsory dark mode is bad. But Elon seems to have incredible trouble believing other people are a thing to model, let alone actually doing the modelling. It sucks, and I am sorrowful for people like you and thingsiplay for having the internet get less useful for you and having this dipshit providing a bad example for other people with too much power and too little wisdom.
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;
}
})();
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
Because the downvote button isn't for what I personally don't want to see, it's for what isn't relevant. As much as I don't want to see this, it is technology
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.
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...
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.
Seriously. People were talking about Jeffrey Dahmer a lot in 1991, but there weren't any contrarian pimple-dicks jumping out of the bushes and shouting "He's living rent-free inside your head!" Dahmer was news. People tend to think about recent events.
Gee, I wonder why. Could the fact that he keeps making unpopular changes to one of the largest social media platforms out there have anything to do with it? Nah, those hundreds of millions of people just don't like his face or whatever.
Unfortunately, billionaires have an outsize influence on the lives of regular people. Like this shitstain buying one of the most important social media properties in the world and turning it into a safe space for fascists. He's contributing to the downfall of human civilization and we absolutely need to talk about that.