Good and evil

Notable lists:

harmful.cat-v.org/ from cat-v.org

Table of contents
- Evil
  - Planned obsolescence Evil
  - Discounts that happen more often than not Evil
- Good
  - Cool person Good

Evil

Things that are not nice such as:

Taboola, Outbrain, and other chumbox
BLOBs
Europe cookie law
adhesive inside mobile phones and more generally, planned obsolescence
Jupyter Notebook
typographical characters that look like ASCII ones, but are not the ASCII ones, e.g. typographical quotes, em-dash. The non-breaking hyphen is not even whitespace, and by def Why not stick to ASCII when ASCII is good enough?
excessive encapsulation
replacement of master and slave terminology from technology
mailing lists. And to add insult to injury, HTML on mailing list messages instead of plaintext.
blank lines in code added by people trying to increase clarity, especially when there is already indentation for that. Every blank line must be preceded by a line comment explaining what the following block is about, or removed.
messaging software that force you to have a mobile phone
advertisements by telephone/SMS
"state" such as global variables and object members, long live functional programming?
mosquitoes, the only intrinsically bad thing about tropical countries
projects with slow compilation times
Microsoft Windows
the 2019 Chinese government
e-learning websites that only allows verified teachers to write content. Cowards who can't handle ranking algorithms.
domain-specific language
a build system without an out-of-tree option
non-linear Git history: stackoverflow.com/questions/20348629/what-are-advantages-of-keeping-linear-history-in-git
visual programming languages like Scratch. Waste of time. Text programming languages are already equally as visual due to indentation:
```
if x == 0:
    x = 1
```
Just make good serious gamedev libraries and integrated development environments for those real languages instead.
software that prevents you from running as root. Let me fucking shoot myself in the foot if I want to. It is better than having to deal with your hand holding bullshit, which is done in a different way for every project. E.g.: stackoverflow.com/questions/17466017/how-to-solve-you-must-not-be-root-to-run-crosstool-ng-when-using-ct-ng/53099177#53099177
Medium
luxury goods
euphemism
closed access academic journals are evil
websites without OAuth
shower room without a window to the exterior (mould!!!)
single programs with their interface split across multiple windows, e.g. GIMP, ZynAddSubFX
graphical user interfaces
logograms
infinitesimals. Just use limit instead, please
country
mailing list
knowledge olympiads
programming languages without a decent dominating package system
closed source offline software used by millions
exams
security through obscurities
dots in Gmail address
things in websites that look like links, and behave like links, but don't let you middle click to open them on a separate tab
K-pop
numerical computing language
fiscal paradises
when the front-end of an website changes an important permanent state, but the URL does not change
splash screens: you should show boot messages so that people will know what to Google for when things fail. Do you think computer newbies will be afraid and have nightmares?
milk chocolate: why would you eat that instead of dark chocolate if you are older than 10?
to talk about something without giving the real name to not scare off the audience
mathematical symbol that looks like a Greek letter but isn't. Or perhaps mathematical notation in general
when more than two people gather to play a board game or video game, and two or more people start chatting on and on about random subjects rather than concentrating on the game
watching television while eating. Same for reading, or doing basically anything else but eat. The only acceptable activity is talking relaxedly, not about work.
noises coming out of your bicycle. It is so hard to find where they come to fix them!!!
code drop
private cars as opposed to public transport. As a cyclist, you can just see the effect that large roads have on nearby areas, it just destroys nature.
closed standards
double consonants that make no difference to sound. Dilema? Dilemma? Dillema? Dillemma? Please!
social media websites that show stuff from people you don't follow when you don't explicitly want that, including things which are not ads, just random suggestions. Twitter starting being like that cirac a 2022. Facebook got worse around that time. It is a constant fight against those stupid websites.
- Facebook
  - www.quora.com/How-do-we-turn-off-suggested-anything-on-Facebook-so-that-these-never-show-up-again
- Twitter
  - twitter.com/danbarreirokfan/status/1415328096568360964?lang=en-GB
  - www.quora.com/How-do-I-disable-suggested-topics-on-Twitter
socks with short legs that don't protect your ankle/lower calf from cold/scratches/dirt, e.g. liner socks
Presta valves. Why would such a flimsy tech have become so popular compared to the infinitely superior Schrader!

Planned obsolescence

The first time Ciro Santilli Googled this was when trying to repair his cell phone.

2019 cell phones are glued together with adhesive, which makes them impossible to repair them unless you have a heat gun, spend hours and hours learning and planning, and accept the risk of breaking the screen

Repairability scores: www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability

If you take a phone less than 300 dollars to a repair shop in the first world, they will say: I've never repaired this crap, and likely for the price of the repair you should just buy a new one, and so to the trash goes the old one, polluting the planet, and in comes a new one, enriching the manufacturer further.

European Union, I need you now.

Oh, there is some 2017 EU action actually: (archive) www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20170629IPR78633/making-consumer-products-more-durable-and-easier-to-repair

Good article: www.androidauthority.com/device-repairability-807585/ (archive).

Discounts that happen more often than not

These are obviously just a manipulative lie sales practice to make you want to buy at regular price.

Shame on you.

Similarly, recurrent Internet payments that give you one year's discount, and make you put up on your calendar to call them one year later threatening to give more discounts to be as cheap as competitors or I'm out.