Peeve: undergoing orientation makes you oriented, not "orientated".

When you use public transportation, you are transported to your destination, not "transportated".

Thank you.

#peeve #English #BusinessJargon #NotAWord #ThatsNotAWord #oriented #orientated

[Note: something has now changed and clicking a hashtag brings up a context menu that *does* have a mute option. It didn't this morning! Dunno.]

Mastodon #peeve:

If you click a hastag, you're taken to page summarizing content with that hashtag etc.

At the top is a prominent button labelled "Follow hashtag", which does what it says in one click.

There is no equivalent "Block" or "Filter out" functionality on this page. Instead, you have to copy the tag (or retype it later), go to Preferences, select Filters, then Add New Filter, then fill out a multi-input form, and then click Add Filter.

#Mastodon should make it as easy to filter specific things out of your feed as it does to follow those same specific things. The fact that the difference in effort here is so stark makes it feel like a dark design pattern - maybe even to the point of being abusive to the user.

There's also a different level of effort for following/muting-or-blocking a user. To follow, you can hover over their name in your feed, and there's a one-click button to follow them. But to block or mute them, you have to open a separate page for the user, and then click multiple things to actually complete the action.

"Create a suggestion issue in our repo!" - ya, I've done that a few times. Those requests appear to drop into the round file, unread and unresponded-to. It seems posting to Fedi gets better traction.

#MastoBug #MastoSuggestion #UI #DarkPattern #Filter #Block #Follow #Hashtag

Opinion:

If you are the small-business owner of a restaurant, and that restaurant has a website that details your location(s), your menu, and has an "About Us" section, and if your restaurant has a presence on multiple food-delivery services, and none of those have any information about your hours of operation, you have Failed At The Internet.

#peeve #failed #FailedAtTheInternet #FailedInternet #website #restaurant #HoursOfOperation #HaveAFuckingWebsite #SmallBusiness #information

A small units-related #peeve prob not resonating with many others, but if someone says their product has a 3000 mAh battery, I see that as:

"We've got a 3 ✖️ 1000 ➗ 1000 AmpHour battery!"

Yeah, I know Dave in marketing says big numbers look more impressive, but just say it's just a 3Ah battery.

Power bank specs are worse to a factor of ten, often quoting 20,000 mAh capacity! I'm surprised they aren't trying to do 20kmAh which would be a crime against units.

#consumerElectronics #units

Guys wearing their ballcaps backwards shading their eyes with their hand when they look in the direction of the sun

#Peeve

Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.

#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias

#peeve #sysadminLife

Ah, a directory titled "10-11-01_Backup", now what god-forsaken date format did that (now departed) individual use? Is that from 2010, 2011, 2001?

not #iso8601

Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.

It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.

You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.

#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content