Ancestors

Written by abadidea on 2025-01-28 at 11:08

Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated

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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-28 at 11:11

is this why normies keep sending me near-useless screenshots of their documents???

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Written by Nils Ballmann on 2025-01-28 at 15:37

@0xabad1dea at least partly, because this normalizes pasting screenshots. :blobcatgrimacing:

Hence, I have adapted this handy keyboard shortcut:

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Written by Rainer Müller on 2025-01-28 at 18:39

@nils_ballmann @0xabad1dea There is a need for a page like https://nohello.net but for "no screenshots". I also have team members who prefer to send me a screenshot instead of copy & pasting their code in chat.

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Written by jmj on 2025-01-29 at 08:01

@raimue @nils_ballmann @0xabad1dea I blame one part JavaScript and one part Apple. JavaScript broke the text nature of the web such what you saw on the screen wasn’t text document anymore. Then Apple replaced everyone’s computer something that didn’t support copy/paste so everyone learned to take screenshots.

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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-29 at 08:05

@Jmj @raimue @nils_ballmann as a heavy Apple user, I am surprised to learn I haven’t been using copy/paste a hundred times a day the last twenty years

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Written by jmj on 2025-01-29 at 15:02

@0xabad1dea @raimue @nils_ballmann https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/20/apple-engineer-first-iphone-copy-and-paste/

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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-29 at 15:10

@Jmj @raimue @nils_ballmann I knew one (1) single person who had a first-model iPhone, I don't think the fact that there was a window from 2007-2008 where some tiny fraction of humanity had a phone that was slightly more advanced than most other phones but couldn't copy-paste and otherwise clearly wasn't a general personal computing device somehow redefined humanity's relationship to the existence of copy-paste

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Descendants

Written by Nils Ballmann on 2025-01-29 at 15:32

@0xabad1dea @Jmj @raimue I agree.

To to make you all feel old: IIRC my dad was doing the notepad dance on Windows since ~2005.

But that may be – as a Linux user – my anti-Window-bias speaking...

I just wonder how and why it got introduced in that way also on Linux. Because I don't remember the starting point of that.

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