Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Should you use CRA? Not even once.

This has always been true, but only in the last couple of years have its creators acknowledged as much. And yet, they're pulling the same shit Facebook pulled when they failed to signpost to the community the scale of infrastructure necessary to keep their baroque JS in check.

Lies by omission are still material.

A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:

We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.

Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:

https://create-react-app.dev/

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

OH: "There's never enough money to fix something right, but somehow there's always money to fix something twice."

#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:

What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!)

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/759239561728622592
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Fedi, what are your comfort TV shows?

Je zou ook, ik noem maar wat, mensen waarvan je weet dat ze recht hebben op toeslagen de toeslagen kunnen geven.

Painted my shed on the lunchbreak

If I had a buck for every dumbass who replied "Publically valued companies only have a duty to their shareholders" I'd... probably be part of the problem.

But my brother, do you understand that you're telling me "the purpose of this company that sells me stuff is not to meet me half way so that both sides are happy with the transaction, but to bilk me silly" and you're happy with that? Do you believe you're ushering me into a grand discovery? What neutrino thru yon brain sludge passes?

How did you get your gender?

More on the topic of EU-wide rail ticket booking

Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it

New #CrossBorderRail Analysis on my site 👇
https://jonworth.eu/deutsche-bahn-has-an-amazing-opportunity-in-ticket-sales-but-is-too-blinded-by-flixtrain-to-seize-it/

The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"

This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the service

https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/#privacy-labour