TurfsterNTETurfster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Nov 4, 2026, 7:25 PMComputer Should Not Make Noise Unless I Want It To, Explicitly
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- TurfsterNTETurfster@mastodon.gamedev.placeNov 4, 2026, 7:31 PM
... are you shitting me?
*That's* where they are?
And there's *how many* fucking things?
Programmer-ass UI Solution Of All Time
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22686 
abadidea0xabad1dea@infosec.exchangeNov 5, 2026, 9:55 AM@Turfster @eniko I had an annoying surprise the other day when I visited a webpage for big-budget video game on a mobile browser and it started playing music automatically even though that’s never supposed to happen until I’ve interacted with something on the page. So they’ve found a loophole to abuse…
Cesarcesarb@mastodon.socialNov 5, 2026, 12:46 PM@0xabad1dea @Turfster @eniko This kind of thing was abused by shock sites back in the Flash era (IIRC, opening the page loudly proclaimed to anyone in hearing range that the user was supposedly watching inappropriate content), so I'd expect such a workaround to be blocked sooner or later.