Bad things
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Web browsers
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https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html +
https://macwright.com/2020/08/22/clean-starts-for-the-web.html
(but link:GoodThings.html#_asciidoc[fuck Markdown])

Scrap it all, start anew.  Content goes first, presentation second.  Don't allow
for the inverse to happen.  I'm not interested in anyone's animations and gray
font.

GNOME 3
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Removing features, worsening accessibility, making the UI incomprehensible,
piling up laughable levels of complexity, politically driven development,
everything is wrong here.

KDE
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KDE will always be hideously ugly, it's the one constant in the universe.  See a
https://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/3/7/141073-chyby-v-gui-v-kde-4-3-31785.png[case study].

Pop-ups
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Anything that shows up and changes the consequences of the user's actions, if it
doesn't appear as an _immediate result_ of the user doing something, is pure
evil.  Sadly, this is sometimes hard to avoid, or the cost is too high.

Major culprits that make me want to hurt the computer: Firefox, Thunderbird
(e.g. certificate problems when your network MITMs you and you haven't run
sshuttle yet), Qt Creator (files changed externally).

Unix terminals
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Barely tolerable with graphical displays.  The character grid must go, not only
because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read.  See also:
https://p.janouch.name/article-tui.html[So you want to make a TUI…]

The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links.

ASCII
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Outdated, made for teletypes.  Unicode mostly just adds more complexity (and
characters).  For sanity reasons, I'll put up with it and try to avoid the parts
I don't like, perhaps even banning certain characters where possible.

Centralisation
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Try to build things so that they survive outages--resilient, robust, and even
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility[antifragile].  Admittedly, this
principle is hard for humans to follow.

Speaking of which, project Haven has no public mirrors yet.  Not that it matters
thus far... but eventually we should at least set up mirrorring to repo.or.cz,
which is local.