= 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark[typographical quotes], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash[em-dash]. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Non-breaking_hyphens[non-breaking hyphen] is not even whitespace, and by def Why not stick to ASCII when ASCII is good enough?
* <excessive encapsulation is the root of much evil>[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 <Brazil>[tropical countries]
* projects with slow compilation times
* <Microsoft Windows>
* the 2019 <Chinese government>
* e-learning websites that only allows verified teachers to write content. <OurBigBook.com>[Cowards who can't handle ranking algorithms].
* <domain-specific language>
* a build system without an out-of-tree option
* non-linear <Git> history: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20348629/what-are-advantages-of-keeping-linear-history-in-git
* visual programming languages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)[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.: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17466017/how-to-solve-you-must-not-be-root-to-run-crosstool-ng-when-using-ct-ng/53099177#53099177
* <Medium (website)>
* <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 (mathematics)> instead, please
* <country>
* <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>
* https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-turn-off-suggested-anything-on-Facebook-so-that-these-never-show-up-again
* <Twitter>
* https://twitter.com/danbarreirokfan/status/1415328096568360964?lang=en-GB
* https://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!
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