i wish all <software whose setup flows don't let me specify a password, forcing me to copy paste a randomly generated password into a login prompt and then go to the account settings page and set my password to the one i actually want instead of just letting me specify it during setup> a very <fuck you>

this includes mastodon but this is the least of my angers about that particular software's user experience

i've been experimenting with discord's global push-to-talk on linux and i've made a discovery. discord's push-to-talk detection only works on xwayland applications, so if i run discord under wayland proper, push-to-talk stops working when discord is focused. every time i want to talk i have to tab into xeyes, then press the push-to-talk button so discord can detect it, and then tab back into discord

bitcoin doesn't fix a broken heart

watching invincible season 2 and i really don't understand why it's seen as so important for mark grayson to go to college. sure, college prepares you for the workforce and gives you a network to find a job through, but that seems totally irrelevant for the strongest superhero on the planet. petulant schoolchildren often pretend they have better things to do than learn about color symbolism in 18th century literature, but invincible actually does. every second he spends studying topics he'll never use could be much better spent at least helping rebuild chicago. it's not like schools are a pivotal part of a child's development in and of themselves, they're just the places we've built for children to develop in. he could totally live a fulfilled childhood without wasting a bunch of time preparing for a career that he's never going to see

the user experience for truly secure end-to-end encryption will never be good enough because it must always get in the way of the user. there is no secure e2ee scheme that solves this and there never will be. this is for a similar reason that the user experience for having a lock on your front door will never be good enough. the user will have to carry around an annoying key everywhere, and will have to learn what a key is and how to use it and where to put it. it will always get between the user and the room they are trying to access. the only way to make the user experience good enough is to replace the keyed lock with something the user can unlock without authenticating, and that will never provide true security besides making the user feel comfortable in their insecurity. i've rotated keys in matrix plenty of times due to broken crypto and nobody has ever verified it was still me
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i have never heard a fire alarm actually correspond to a dangerous fire. it's always some bullshit like a drill (i know how to follow exit signs i don't need a pop quiz) or burnt food (which shouldn't trigger a full building alarm). at some point we have to realize that alarm fatigue is the strongest force in fire safety today and people just aren't going to evacuate on an alarm if they happen constantly. also my ears hurt, they don't need to be so damn loud for me to know to leave an area

i would like to have a strongly worded conversation with the github engineer that decided that the workflow page needed to override alt + left to move around the workflow graph instead of doing the browser behavior (for firefox, going back a page)

software developers will never be real engineers. you have no real certification, you operate under no ethical frameworks, you have no solidarity. you are a code monkey twisted by javascript frameworks and bash scripts into a crude mockery of electrical engineering's perfection
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