Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

Derya Akkaynak, "an oceangoing engineer", has created an algorithm that removes water from underwater images. Resulting images look exactly like how they'd look if the objects were to be brought to land and photographed there.

https://youtu.be/ExOOElyZ2Hk

Pull to refresh: a trap which makes you download new stuff when you want to scroll to top.

Floating action button: a trap which targets your flimsy fingers.

No option to disable either: inconsiderate coder, knows nothing of UX.

Total lack of undo and cancel: bad, evil, nasty, incompetent coder.

Fuck me they hold a LibreOffice event at my uni last week and I only learn about it today from a toot someone I follow happened to boost. Really sad I missed it.

> The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Murray Kempton

A couple pics from the terrace of the Ankara HST station shopping centre.

Packing, the worst thing that necessarily precedes, concludes, and follows travel...

Looking back at the month and a few days I spent in Ankara, my new home city, sitting here in my old room here in Istanbul where I spent 24 years of my life without any major interruptions, I feel weird how swiftly it all happened and how quickly I got used to Ankara and to living on my own.

I expected difficulty adapting, and homesickness, but no, none of that.

It's been a month and three days.

Ankara is cozy and beautiful so far.

logizomechanophobia: fear of computers

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/logizomechanophobia
http://www.common-phobias.com/Logizomechano/phobia.htm

academia.edu is the epitome of nasty.

If it werent for the occasional PDF that isn't available anywhere else, I'd immediately delete my account there and have my browser redirect it to...

IDK, literally anything is better.

Once again I'm trying my luck with #KDE. This time I'm making use of Activities, having a separate activity for my research & study. I still don't get how differen't they'll be from workspaces in practice, but I'll see...

This was from the third page of the following: Graziano, Anthony M., and Michael M. Raulin. Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry. 8th ed., Pearson, 2012.

> Instead of the
probability of getting help increasing when the number
of witnesses to the event increases, it decreases, and
it decreases dramatically. They explained this finding
with a concept called diffusion of responsibility. If you
are the only one who can help, you are likely to feel a
responsibility to help. If there are several other people
available to help, you might reason that someone else
will help. unfortunately, everyone is thinking the same
way, and so no one helps.

‘When two elephants jostle, what is hurt is the grass.’

From Understanding Morphology, Haspelmath. Seems to be a Swahili proverb.

#GoodUXaphorisms 1: Make everything undoable, and for actions that are inevitably not undoable ask for confirmation with the default option cancelling the action.

This is especially important in mobile where accidental taps are frequent. But so many apps don't have undo at all, let alone having it in all the places it is necessary.