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by dylan6042 days ago |
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upvoteby kristopolous2 days ago|
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Upload file doesn't mean mutate file.

No. Upload file means upload file. If you want to mutate the file, mutate the file.

When tools assume you're stupid and insert silent surprises unrelated to the task they no longer deserve the title "tool" because they are fundamentally doing other things.

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upvoteby raw_anon_11112 days ago|
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Most people have no idea when they upload a “photo” they are also letting anyone know their “location”. On iOS at least, from the browser, you specifically choose whether you want to upload a file from the Files app (that lets you upload files from iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox or any other storage type service you have installed) or a photo.
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upvoteby kristopolous2 days ago|
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These "all users are imbeciles that need our protection" design pattern needs to die a swift death.
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upvoteby raw_anon_11112 days ago|
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Yes and no one who knows how to change an engine should drive a car. This is why geeks make horrible product people and after 30 years geeks are still waiting for “The Year of Linux on the Desktop”.
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upvoteby kristopolous2 days ago|
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What you're advocating for is more like the Bluetooth hijacking when you get in a car of transferring your call from you ear piece to your sound system as if you want to blast your phone call to everyone in the parking lot.

Turn on car doesn't mean hijack Bluetooth connection.

Let me phrase this another way: "Computer, I told you to transfer file, not strip meta data".

About Linux: it won the Unix war, the cloud computing war, the embedded war, and is the most installed OS on the planet.

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upvoteby raw_anon_11112 days ago|
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And absolutely no one knows they are using Linux. Google had to hide all of the Unix underpinnings and do things like this to make it usable.

As far as the BT car issue. I don’t have that issue. I turned off wireless CarPlay, don’t use BT and I connect my phone to my car using a regular old USB C cable to avoid that issue - and it’s more reliable

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upvoteby kristopolous1 days ago|
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See you've done all this workaround, fighting with what some designer did because they assumed all the users are imbeciles.

The problem shouldn't exist. The object should do what we instruct, and not have its own opinions of us and do stuff on our behalf presuming incompetency

Let's take another example, the 4chan-ification of the web making everything ephemeral. All the feed based sites basically hide what you just saw forever. They've fundamentally broken the web and made all content disposable.

It's no longer an addressable public record. It breaks the fundamental storage and organization principles of why computers exist and the fundamental purposes of why they're networked together, as a shared communal record.

Seeing this working well goes back to original online spaces like this in the 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

Or my favorite quote about this

> It was like an interactive bulletin board. This wasn’t a machine behind a locked door calling shots, quantifying your inadequacies… No! You could touch it. It was a radical reversal. We all knew who the computer was. But, this time, it had no idea who we were.” “Sounds like chaos!” Thomas responds.

> “No! It was anything but!” Orion snaps back protectively, “I could sit at the keyboard and it would say”hello human”. A black woman could sit down and it would say “hello human”. Henry Kissinger could. It would say “hello human” and not for any redemption on his part.

> It’s because the computer was taught how to help but nobody had fed it Instruction on how to hate. It was then I first saw the computer as a place. A place of hope: an apotheosis of everything I fight for and every thing I want the world to be.”

Instead we've broken this and made things aggressively caustic to the human spirit and it shows. Social media is a poison because it's designed poisonously.

This is a deep and systemic problem. You didn't have to see it

It's there but you don't have to see it

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upvoteby raw_anon_11111 days ago|
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And the alternative is to inconvenience people who don’t want to have to press a button every time they get into a car to pair BT.
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upvoteby kelnos1 days ago|
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> I don’t have that issue.

Ah yes, the good old, "I don't have that particular issue, so I can use my experience to dismiss your concern".

You do realize that sometimes bugs only affect a small percentage of users, right? And even if it affects, say 40% of users, you may personally never see the issue. Does that make it not worth talking about?

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upvoteby raw_anon_11111 days ago|
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And what would be the alternative that doesn’t have tradeoffs? Everytime you get into your car you have to press a button to manually pair your phone with it? Then another set of users would complain.

The same with the EXIF data being shared. Most people don’t want their location being shared with photos and there have been reports of stalkers using the information

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upvoteby kelnos1 days ago|
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That's an incredibly bad analogy.
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upvoteby raw_anon_11111 days ago|
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It’s a great analogy. Every design decision has tradeoffs. Given a choice between optimizing for 90% over 10% is a fair trade
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