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UX designers who eliminated the filesystem from user consciousness in name of simplicity ruined the world and are morally culpable for shriveling minds of children who are unable to tackle the challenges of today thanks to a choice sold as advocacy for the user but was ultimately motivated by control of a disempowered customer.

Danielle Foré

@SwiftOnSecurity and kids these days can’t even write in cursive! Moral decay of society etc lmao

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Practically no nation besides Russia bothers, though I'm not sure it's all that dramatic of a loss.

Its purpose - fast writing - is rarely done by hand now and even then it wasn't anywhere near as fast as shorthand (also known as stenography) even in its day of prime.

@lispi314 right yeah that was my point lol

@danirabbit Ah I see.

It's not quite on the same level, mostly because no actual capacity was lost (and books have been in print-type for so long that the notion of cursive books is practically a curiosity now), while for those systems they still very much do use those mechanisms and their obscuring does hinder the users' control and ownership of their computing.

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity

I literally wish I could unlearn both vim and cursive.

OPs point, on the other hand, is a genuinely important one, having to do with "power in the machine"

@jrm4 @danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Don't write cursive and you'll forget how do to it eventually (in my case, "eventually" was about 6 months -- I came of age at the tail end of the whole left-handedness is evil era, so I had the double whammy of left-handed cursive leaving smear of ink/carbon as I scribbled, and my teachers telling me that it would be far easier if I did it with my right hand.) I presume that forgetting vim-isms would work much the same way, but you should be using berkeley vi like G-d themselves intended anyway.

@jrm4 @danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity
iYou clearly don't know enough vim if you want to unlearn it!<Esc>:wq

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Cursive, I'd settle for file names in Proper Case...

@danirabbit You can tell by how they don't name their files in proper cursive like ℛℰ𝒜𝒟ℳℰ.𝒯𝒳𝒯 or 𝒯ℋℰ𝒮ℐ𝒮.𝒲ℛℐ anymore.
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