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

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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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          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.

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

      • Big P@feddit.uk
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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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    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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      Avoiding the letter E is already a creative writing style, except you don’t hav to wrayt layk this. There’s even a Mastodon instance dedicated to it and a funny writeup about what happened when they came across another mastodon instance where the letter E is the only allowed letter.


      Or in Oulipo:

      Avoiding that orthographic symbol is a standing approach to writing, but you don’t hav to wrayt layk this. Also, a Mastodon community for it was built. I found out through a blog post about a showdown of that mastodon community with a community that only allows that symbol.

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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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    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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    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.

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      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.

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        @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.

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          Try the “Dark Reader” plugin (works for all chromium-based browsers and Firefox - at least). It lets you customise the “darkness” of the dark mode to your hearts content. I have most of my sites set up so that they’re more “very dark grey” rather than black.

          Doesn’t always work nicely, some sites get their images mangled, or the text will get a weird shade that makes it illegible, but overall, it’s great. And you probably can fix most of these issues by tweaking the filter settings.

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          The thing is, I don’t think he’s deliberately trying to destroy the birdsite. He’s exhibiting the same mentality as the billionaire who got himself and a few others to die in a faulty submersible. He thinks he knows better than everyone but is completely out of touch from reality because his money usually shields him from consequences.

          Elon Musk is just an idiot. A useful idiot to those who fund him like the Saudis, but an idiot all the same.

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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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        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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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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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.