boatswain

Ah, that makes sense

The related thing that I've seen a few times and never understood is ",,,". What does an ellipsis of commas even mean?

That's a little different: if you're quoting someone and cut words out of the middle of the quote, you'd use ... to indicate that you've modified the quote. It wouldn't go at the end of a sentence though. It used to be pretty common in newspapers, as I recall.

Two of the employees were twins. It wasn't planned, but it did give us a chance to see if twins were a weak point.

No, it gave you a chance to see if that particular set of twins was a weak point.

In fact, I myself could only tell them apart by their clothes. They had very different styles.

This makes it sound like you only tried one particular set of twins--unless there were multiple sets, and in each set the two had very different styles? I'm no statistician, but a single set doesn't seem statistically significant.

I don't see a good way to put it on a keychain; the only hole looks tiny, and right on an edge where it's likely to snap after a year or so of wear.

You seem to be taking about something other than enshittification, which has a specific meaning and isn't just places not respecting privacy or whatever. Per Cory Doctorow (who invented the term) via Wikipedia:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

If enshittification is what you're assist interested in reducing, check out Cory's book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

Ooh, wow, that looks like a super handy resource. Thanks!

Ah bummer

What about just giving transparency to what the ranking is and letting people control it? Analogous to "sort by new/best/top" bit ideally with more knobs to tweak and a bunch of preset options?

Me too! So far, the Azeron is looking most appealing, though I'm concerned about Linux support. It sounds like some people have got it working though, so maybe it'll pan out. The ideal would still be something that supports QMK, so I'm still interested to hear if anyone's come up with anything that does that.

That's actually really neat, and could be worth experimenting with. It's a shame the two halves seem to be hardwired together; I'd only want the left half. Might be a good place to start though, thanks!

I did find it amusing how much the site talks about using a smartphone with your thumbs though; that seems like an alien idea to me: I just a swipe keyboard on my phone with my index finger.