On a broader note, today worldwide we are observing several practical demonstrations of why it's more important to vote for people with some sense of ethics than for jerks that say things you like.

Does it make me old that it’s easier for me to type :) than go into the emoji keyboard and find the appropriate variant?

Who is this Chad Jippity fellow and why everyone keeps talking about him?

There is one kind of people I have no respect for: those who think they are always right. Doesn't matter why, be that God is on their side, or because they are the good guys, or because they are the smartest, bravest, or strongest, or even if it is because science agrees with them.

Nobody is ever perfect. Everyone can get better by recognizing mistakes and trying not to repeat them. But the moment you stop questioning yourself, you enter a death spiral of bad decisions and more bad decisions to cover them up.

You can fool yourself, you can fool people around you, for a while. But you can't fool the reality. The reality doesn't care that it would hurt your pride by not conforming to your ambitions. You might manage to die before the consequences catch up to you, but they will catch up to those you leave behind. Which isn't fair, but the reality doesn't care about fairness either.

Modded Minecraft be like

So often I run into a software footgun that has been created because it was the easiest way, and technically fits the requirements. And somehow authors often overlook the fact that it won't really serve the users as well, because they are not born with the intrinsic knowledge of where the footgun is and how to avoid it.

"But, if they hold it right, it will work!.."

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Here's a thing... If a person is known to be a shameless liar, no matter how similar their political views are to my own, there is no reason to believe they would stick to them when it's no longer convenient.

By the same token, if a person is a ruthless asshole, I'd rather not give them free rein to carry out something I am sympathetic to, because the next I may be the subject of their ruthlessness.

It's sad really, we desperately need the best people to lead us, but politics is so antithetical to ethics that truly wonderful people prefer to do other things.

PSA: If your Chrome browser updated and declared uBlock Origin "no longer supported", that's a bit of a misdirection. You can go to "Manage Extensions" page, select uBlock Origin and click "Keep for now". And it will work. For now.

Thinking more on web #decluttering, I now believe that this is largely a matter of control.

My programming career started in web development and even though I was never good at the design part, it was always immensely satisfying to get my web site look just right. Perfect margins, best color scheme, nicest fonts, but all of it according to me.

Herein lies the problem: web sites are largely created to represent the tastes (or corporate style) of the creators, and not the preferences of visitors. I think that the key to a user-firendly web is giving back the control to the users.

The hard part of it is how much control should we give back. In the attachment are three versions of the same blog post: one with my current blog's theme (the green one, designed according to my tastes), one with all styles stripped off (literally zero custom CSS), and the second is the very minimal styling (mostly browser defaults, but some minimal styling to improve readability).

Which one is better for the user? I dunno.

I’m certainly not the first to come up with it, but this seems like an interesting joint design for 3d prints that need some measure of adjustability at assembly time, and being stiff the rest of it.

#3dprinting