your reading comprehension is below elementary school levels.

get fucked Karen. Find someone else to harass.

We’ve made the web accessible to people who shouldn’t be on it. Because it’s hurting them and hurting society as a whole.

Did we do that though? Or was it some hardware / software developers with no backbone to stand up to greedy corporations who wanted to make it accessible? Other than that - yes, sadly I agree.

You are wasting your breath. Try to argue with people who are not already allies.

Previous poster was not questioning it but quoting the UN as the authority. https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-242

Absolutely. The biggest individual loss for me was the usenet. That was the first time google showed its true, evil and ugly face - by introducing tons of people who had no idea what the usenet was via google groups.

The second blow was when people no longer required any technical knowledge whatsoever to “go online”, because ISPs sold internet access complete with a router that took care of the connection.

The third blow was when every idiot and their mom who have no idea how to operate a computer or a keyboard got access to the internet via mobile devices with touchscreens and an app for everything.

Eventually, the absolute enshittification of centralized social media (ongoing).

And now - AI slop.

That’s fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.

Partially agreed :p

You assume that in my world “normal” is a compliment. It’s not.

I could live with that, as long as the language menu button itself is labeled in English and not e.g. “Sprache ändern”

Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we’re all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.

If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen. Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer. Thus morons. I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.

well obviously you shouldn’t use a Taiwan flag to represent Traditional Chinese if you’re selling in China, dumbass, you shouldn’t need special training to know that… […] at least a few of the 8 million Ukrainians who speak Russian probably aren’t keen on identifying themselves in their profile with a Russian flag either”

fair enough, that is a good point.

Again, and I feel like I’m repeating myself here, my point isn’t that you’re incorrect, it’s that getting on your high horse about it and calling people dumb

No, I wasn’t calling people dumb, I was calling “most web developers” morons, and I stand by that. Most web developers are morons. And the language topic at hand is just one of many symptoms of that. Way more annoying than that is that almost all websites have been fubared with stupid frameworks and interactive sites transmitting each keypress and reloading parts of the page while you are trying to use them / whatever was in your focus before. Interactive websites can be done right, but most of the time they are not, and it’s the fault of stupid marketing people and crappy web developers / designers who do NOT refuse to implement shitty marketing ideas.

The only thing I know about i18n is that it is an annoying shitload of language installer packages for both firefox and libreoffice ^^ That said, however, how you need training for a localization package to provide a language menu(!) - not the translations, mind you - in English, is beyond me. I can’t follow the point you seem to be trying to make. There’s no reason to not hardcode (in English) a language selection menu, and then display the list of available site languages (and these should be a country flag with the name of language next to it in what may be the language itself)

immediately where my mind went.

From “haha, raspberriesareyummy will marry his computer one day” to most everyone around me constantly staring at their whatsapp, tiktok or “talking” with siri/alexa.

Fuck this shit :(

Valid comment to some degree, but putting language options in the selected language is always dumber than providing them in the only world language.

No, that part (cis) is a prefix and means “on this side of”. And for “on this side of gender” to mean what cisgender is used as, is a newly agreed-upon thing in the evolution of LGBTQ culture.

because most web developers are morons :/

I am fully aware what some people use, but it is a made-up word of the English language and I won’t apply it to myself. I don’t have a problem with people using it, but it’s not my vocabulary. It neither has an inherent sense, nor does it have any added value in most context. I respect that it helps to normalize specifying whatever gender one associates with when “cis” people also do it, as opposed to only having trans / non-binary people to specify “what” they identify as. But my solidarity extends only to full acceptance and tolerance, not to changing how I “identify” myself :p

“non-trans” normal person here, and I think everyone who has a problem with trans / queer / whatever people is a fucking moron. I absolutely support the “trans agenda”

indeed. At this point, the only thing related to 'murica that I care about in terms of relations is to keep them from nuking other countries. And with their empathyless billionaire cunts in charge of the rapist buffoon, that is basically impossible to ensure. Might as well do our own thing entirely.

So “Hero” was quite accurate :)