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Bad things
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Web browsers
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https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop.html +
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https://macwright.com/2020/08/22/clean-starts-for-the-web.html
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(but link:GoodThings.html#_asciidoc[fuck Markdown])
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Scrap it all, start anew. Content goes first, presentation second. Don't allow
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for the inverse to happen. I'm not interested in anyone's animations and gray
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font.
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GNOME 3
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Removing features, worsening accessibility, making the UI incomprehensible,
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piling up laughable levels of complexity, politically driven development,
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everything is wrong here.
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KDE
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KDE will always be hideously ugly, it's the one constant in the universe. See a
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https://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/3/7/141073-chyby-v-gui-v-kde-4-3-31785.png[case study].
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Pop-ups
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Anything that shows up and changes the consequences of the user's actions, if it
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doesn't appear as an _immediate result_ of the user doing something, is pure
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evil. Sadly, this is sometimes hard to avoid, or the cost is too high.
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Major culprits that make me want to hurt the computer: Firefox, Thunderbird
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(e.g. certificate problems when your network MITMs you and you haven't run
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sshuttle yet), Qt Creator (files changed externally).
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Unix terminals
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Barely tolerable with graphical displays. The character grid must go, not only
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because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read. See also:
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https://p.janouch.name/article-tui.html[So you want to make a TUI…]
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The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links.
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ASCII
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Outdated, made for teletypes. Unicode mostly just adds more complexity (and
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characters). For sanity reasons, I'll put up with it and try to avoid the parts
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I don't like, perhaps even banning certain characters where possible.
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Centralisation
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Try to build things so that they survive outages--resilient, robust, and even
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility[antifragile]. Admittedly, this
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principle is hard for humans to follow.
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Speaking of which, project Haven has no public mirrors yet. Not that it matters
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thus far... but eventually we should at least set up mirrorring to repo.or.cz,
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which is local.
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