Web apps need to be killed with fire, along with every manager who every asked for one.
Its like asking the receptionist to modify your car, with her makeup kit.
Fukuyama's "Trust: the social virtue" is actually pretty good, and gave him credibility for his later, quite delusional work.
But "generational narcissism" is a bullseye :-p
Some Boomers repent some parts of their platform, though, and a minority were never onboard.
#python FTW! :-p
Truth. Its a big problem.
I have exactly 21 apps on this phone, and all of them open source.
Minimalism and greater commitment to separation of data and executable code is my preferred solution.
HTML browser for cat videos.
Payment app for paying for cat food.
Camera app for photos of cats.
Some game engine for games about being a cat.
Termux with SSH for actual important stuff.
Minimum privileges for all. Install from signed repo.
Android isn't a bad design, really.
Content creators are clueless, programmers are lazy, and users are impatient risk-takers.
Its not just, or even mainly the individuals fault.
In 1950s civil defence manuals, a traumatised newcomer to your bunker was supposed to be welcomed, listened to, and then promptly given something useful to go on with. Silent Generation culture.
Today, a paper cut or micro aggression is a signal to be rushed out, be praised for newfound specialness, and taken away for days from being collectively useful and valued. So that the victim can ruminate, catastrophise and despair. "Psychological healing", we call it. You might need a paid friend to praise you and establish a codependent parasocial relationship.
Keeps a lot of social workers and psychotherapists busy. Keeps SSRI tablets flying off the shelves.
The costs, though, are borne by others...
What if I'm trying to pay for fuel with it?
That flag is so binary, it makes the little Foucaults sad
"That's what I want you to do, too!"
- Every phisher and malvertiser, ever, at least since the Web took off in the mid 90s.
Also the Feds, since they can rubberhose any SSL certificate and impersonate any website from a little room atop the backbone.
True of the poor, absolutely. No argument.
But the OP is right about those affluent enough to class-signal, virtue-signal, and doom-scroll ad-supported clickbait health infotainment.
These people are a huge market.
This describes most middle-class women here, but not so much the rest of the population.
I know a family who are all like that, though. They're all overweight, and frequently in hospital
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Every program should be written in Forth.
No one could hack that. No one can read it!
Please no! Performance would suck, and some features would only work reliably on Chrome.
FOSS, automated builds and signed repositories FTW!
My youngest at two-and-a-half: "Dadda get up! Its MORNING". He's ten now, and I've been known to do it back :-p
Just a few years and you can too!
For those readers who never took Philosophy, here's a TL;DR
Consequentialism: an act is good if it could be expected to have a good outcome. "Good" being your preferred ultimate end, often utility, but equality or souls saved are possibilities.
Deontology: an act is good if it is in accordance with your duties and other peoples' rights.
Virtue ethics: an act is good if it demonstrates virtue, or increases the virtue in the world.
Each Ethical tradition is consistent, logical and defensible from its own frame of reference.
As a practical guide to action, I feel that consequentialism is almost perfectly useless. Decision-makers' information is never as good as we think it is ("confirmation bias"), decision-makers are often limited by time and strong emotion, and humans are ludicrously prone to creative excuses - https://zero.sci-hub.se/5923/08375223c5d58fbba2606b668c8a6f74/snyder1988.pdf?download=true
You can justify almost anything as a Consequentialist. Covering up a paedophile priest? Maximises church attendance and souls saved, you know. Bombing a paediatrics ward? (I don't actually know how you excuse that, but the New York Times does.)
I preferred deontology, specifically Kant. You can't always steer a course of action that fulfils your duties and respects other persons rights, but you can try, and when you can't you can make a choice and own it.
We skimped terribly on Virtue Ethics, but I've started reading Epictetus' Enchiridion, and I'm liking it. That old pagan may make another convert yet...
I have no philosophical objection to gun control.
I just think that governments should go first. One hundred and sixty-eight million democide victims in the 20th century should at least flag your licence for review :-p
https://legaldictionary.net/united-states-v-miller/
Confirmed in this otherwise BS judgement
You, ma'am, are a monster. Its not even December yet!