It must be bad if Gruber is criticising Apple.

Apologies if I came across as cranky, it was meant to be a colorful metaphor for fun, not to be unkind.

Yup. I remember when the iPhone first appeared, my first one was the 3GS and they had so much pre-installed nonsense. It’s very frustrating.

I could open-source defecating into your hands and clapping if you like, but it probably won’t increase demand or convert people, even open source advocates, into true believers if they don’t already like doing it.

And there are absolutely problems with Mullenweg’s stewardship, whatever else you might think of the product.

I agree but I suspect that the problem is that people have different opinions on where the line is on that. Presumably somebody, somewhere actually plays that stupid candy crush thing on Windows for example. It’s probably a ‘valuable service’ for it to be pre installed for them.

I kinda hate them but they’re allowed to like it.

What’s stopping the downloaded script from wiping my home directory? If you use this, how can you feel comfortable?

You’re not wrong, but there’s an element of trust in anything like this and it’s all about your comfort level. How can you truly trust any code you didn’t write and complie yourself. Actually, how do you trust the compiler.

And let’s be honest, even if you trust my code implicitly (Hey, I’m a bofh, what could go wrong?) then that simply means that you’re trusting me not to do anything malicious to your system.

Even if your trust is well-placed in that regard, I don’t need to be malicious to wipe your system or introduce a configuation error that makes you vulnerable to others, it’s perfectly possible to do all that by just being incompetent. Or even being a normally competent person who was just having a bad day while writing the script you’re running now. Ooops.

I wonder if the comparisons are just lazy journalism. Saying “it’s like that” has to be much less effort than properly summarising the content.

The comparison I’d reach for is STALKER tbh but I’m trying to let it be its own thing in my mind. Because mumbles I’m looking forward to trying it as I really like fallout…

I don’t think all Americans are ignorant / facist / etc. But the last election shows that enough are and enough of the rest are at best apathetic about it…

Just like I don’t think all my fellow Brits are dumb, but Brexit and the rise of our own “poundshop Trump” idiots like Farage shows that enough of my fellow countrymen have the same issues.

And we’re far from alone.

Maybe an even better idea than thinking “some people are dumb” is to work out why there’s such a large number of people out there apparently totally disenfranchised by traditional politics in their own country to the point where extremism becomes attractive. Understanding people probably starts with stopping lumping them together as “dumb”…

Digest the decadent