The problem is WebExtensions APIs doesn't allow you to write "real" extensions, and a lot of what could previously be done is no longer possible. Want to add a status bar? Forget it! Want to fix the search box to restore it to usability? No chance! Want to customise the UI in some other way? Not permitted!
Aside from the limitations on what can be done, many developers do not consider it worth their time to invest in a platform that's being actively sabotaged. This is exactly why we've ended up with so many folks like Waterfox and Pale Moon; developers have lost faith in Mozilla and have given up entirely to instead work on their own project. There's no point trying to work with Mozilla when they're actively working against you.
Mozilla have shown they have no interest in what users want. They actively delete any negative feedback, they disable comments on videos to avoid criticism and they actively destroy the work of developers. Firefox could be a great browser if Mozilla would work with users and developers, but instead they want to dictate to users and refuse to ever accept they're wrong. This is exactly why Firefox's market share has dropped to irrelevance and is still declining.
This guy was clearly an amateur. He should have looked to western politicians if he wants to see how to legally receive large bribes from corporations. All he need do is call them campaign donations and everything becomes perfectly acceptable and aboveboard.
It is good to see corruption in politics being punished for once. In the US you can hold a Senate hearing for Facebook where 46 of the 55 committee members have been paid off by Facebook in advance and nobody even bats an eyelid.
I don't understand why anyone would pay that sort of money when you can buy a $50 book and learn from that. Not only is it much cheaper, but the ability to learn on your own is an essential skill for a programmer since programming requires continuous learning in order to keep your skills up to date. If you're unable to study yourself, and need information spoon fed to you, it's probably not the career for you.
Besides, you don't learn to program in a boot camp. All you're going to learn is the basic language syntax and features, which you can learn easily yourself. To develop actual programming skills you need to write software. After writing an application you'll likely find there were many things that could have been done better and you'll be able to use those lessons in your next application, thus improving your skills.
Programming boot camps are a con aimed at people who aren't actually interested in programming but who have seen the high salaries you can get as a programmer. Real programmers more than likely learned to program around age 13, and they did it because it interested them, not for the money.
The problem with introducing a Code of Conduct to appease the fringe social justice crowed is that, if you give them an inch they'll take a mile. The abuse of the Code of Conduct began almost immediately with Sage Sharp accusing Theo Ts’o (member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board and Google employee) of being a rape apologist:
The Twitter rant goes on to demand further concessions on the part of the Linux community to push the social justice agenda. Sage Sharp's Twitter Profile says:
Diversity & inclusion consultant at @ottertechllc. @outreachy organizer. Explorer of the kyriarchy. Hufflepuff. Non-binary (agender trans masculine). They/them.
Clearly they have no interest in Linux and are instead intent on hijacking the project to push their political agenda. Introducing a Code of Conduct empowered this small fringe of social justice harassers, and they immediately started to use this power to derail the Linux project. Linux contributors just want to focus on their work, but now they have to deal with aggressive harassment by vile social justice bullies. The toxic environment that the Code of Conduct has brought about will cause contributors to leave the community to avoid harassment, thus Linux will go into decline.
When it comes to aggressive social justice bullies, you simply can't give them anything. If you apologise, if you bend to their will, if you even respond to them, then you've lost. With the introduction of the Code of Conduct things will likely proceed downhill and I now fear future of Linux, as it's quite likely it has no future.
Research like this is causing software to be increasingly dumbed down to a point where it is extremely difficult to use. In the past you could configure software to work in a way you found desirable and productive, but now all the sophisticated is being removed and you're forced to work the way the UX designers dictate. Take Firefox:
You used to be able to enable or disable the status bar depending on your preference, but the UX designs thought such an option was confusing so they removed the status bar entirely.
You used to have a usable search box with a drop down list of search engines, but the UX designers though words were confusing so they turned the search box into an unusable mess, and now it's easier to visit the site and perform a search than deal with the search box.
You used to be able to have the tabs above or below the address bar, but the UX designs decided to force everyone to have the tabs at the top (you can still get them at the bottom via userChrome.css).
The easy to access menu bars are slowly being replaced by the cumbersome hamburger button which can't even be hidden without resorting to userChrome.css.
Bookmarks used to default to the Bookmarks Menu, but now they default to "Other Bookmarks" which causes them to be unfindable. You have to use an extension just to get the bookmarks to be saved where you want.
I could go on all day with Firefox, but dumbing down of the browser by removing features and options has turned it into a nightmare to use. The same is very much true of Windows 10 which is an absolute train wreck. I've found myself increasingly moving away from commercial software produced by UX designers to FOSS produced by programmers simply because I want software that works.
The thing is, it's not just technical users who hate what UX designers are doing to software, and casual users I speak to also hate the constant UI changes, the hiding of features and the removal of options. Now here we have some worthless 'intellectuals' being given a Nobel Prize for telling people to fuck up their software.
It's little wonder we're moving to a world where computes are becoming less sophisticated and turning into machines for running 'apps' that you can only get from a curated store that bans anything remotely useful. With the direction computing is headed, I think I'll just go and live in a cave.
The problem with social media, and all internet discussion, is people like you who can't stay on topic and want to turn everything into a discussion about politics. Rather than being about social media, your post is about college costs, medical costs and Nancy Pelosi. You try to loosely associate it with the topic with the first and last sentence, but really it's just an off-topic rant. Then some people who agree with your opinion come and upvote your post, making it the most prominent on the page, so the discussion becomes completely derailed.
People like you ruin internet discussion for others. When every topic turns into a discussion about politics, people simply give up and stop participating.
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The problem is WebExtensions APIs doesn't allow you to write "real" extensions, and a lot of what could previously be done is no longer possible. Want to add a status bar? Forget it! Want to fix the search box to restore it to usability? No chance! Want to customise the UI in some other way? Not permitted!
Aside from the limitations on what can be done, many developers do not consider it worth their time to invest in a platform that's being actively sabotaged. This is exactly why we've ended up with so many folks like Waterfox and Pale Moon; developers have lost faith in Mozilla and have given up entirely to instead work on their own project. There's no point trying to work with Mozilla when they're actively working against you.
Mozilla have shown they have no interest in what users want. They actively delete any negative feedback, they disable comments on videos to avoid criticism and they actively destroy the work of developers. Firefox could be a great browser if Mozilla would work with users and developers, but instead they want to dictate to users and refuse to ever accept they're wrong. This is exactly why Firefox's market share has dropped to irrelevance and is still declining.
This guy was clearly an amateur. He should have looked to western politicians if he wants to see how to legally receive large bribes from corporations. All he need do is call them campaign donations and everything becomes perfectly acceptable and aboveboard.
It is good to see corruption in politics being punished for once. In the US you can hold a Senate hearing for Facebook where 46 of the 55 committee members have been paid off by Facebook in advance and nobody even bats an eyelid.
I don't understand why anyone would pay that sort of money when you can buy a $50 book and learn from that. Not only is it much cheaper, but the ability to learn on your own is an essential skill for a programmer since programming requires continuous learning in order to keep your skills up to date. If you're unable to study yourself, and need information spoon fed to you, it's probably not the career for you.
Besides, you don't learn to program in a boot camp. All you're going to learn is the basic language syntax and features, which you can learn easily yourself. To develop actual programming skills you need to write software. After writing an application you'll likely find there were many things that could have been done better and you'll be able to use those lessons in your next application, thus improving your skills.
Programming boot camps are a con aimed at people who aren't actually interested in programming but who have seen the high salaries you can get as a programmer. Real programmers more than likely learned to program around age 13, and they did it because it interested them, not for the money.
The problem with introducing a Code of Conduct to appease the fringe social justice crowed is that, if you give them an inch they'll take a mile. The abuse of the Code of Conduct began almost immediately with Sage Sharp accusing Theo Ts’o (member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board and Google employee) of being a rape apologist:
https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504
The Twitter rant goes on to demand further concessions on the part of the Linux community to push the social justice agenda. Sage Sharp's Twitter Profile says:
Diversity & inclusion consultant at @ottertechllc. @outreachy organizer. Explorer of the kyriarchy. Hufflepuff. Non-binary (agender trans masculine). They/them.
Clearly they have no interest in Linux and are instead intent on hijacking the project to push their political agenda. Introducing a Code of Conduct empowered this small fringe of social justice harassers, and they immediately started to use this power to derail the Linux project. Linux contributors just want to focus on their work, but now they have to deal with aggressive harassment by vile social justice bullies. The toxic environment that the Code of Conduct has brought about will cause contributors to leave the community to avoid harassment, thus Linux will go into decline.
When it comes to aggressive social justice bullies, you simply can't give them anything. If you apologise, if you bend to their will, if you even respond to them, then you've lost. With the introduction of the Code of Conduct things will likely proceed downhill and I now fear future of Linux, as it's quite likely it has no future.
Well done Linus, you've destroyed your own work.
Research like this is causing software to be increasingly dumbed down to a point where it is extremely difficult to use. In the past you could configure software to work in a way you found desirable and productive, but now all the sophisticated is being removed and you're forced to work the way the UX designers dictate. Take Firefox:
I could go on all day with Firefox, but dumbing down of the browser by removing features and options has turned it into a nightmare to use. The same is very much true of Windows 10 which is an absolute train wreck. I've found myself increasingly moving away from commercial software produced by UX designers to FOSS produced by programmers simply because I want software that works.
The thing is, it's not just technical users who hate what UX designers are doing to software, and casual users I speak to also hate the constant UI changes, the hiding of features and the removal of options. Now here we have some worthless 'intellectuals' being given a Nobel Prize for telling people to fuck up their software.
It's little wonder we're moving to a world where computes are becoming less sophisticated and turning into machines for running 'apps' that you can only get from a curated store that bans anything remotely useful. With the direction computing is headed, I think I'll just go and live in a cave.
The problem with social media, and all internet discussion, is people like you who can't stay on topic and want to turn everything into a discussion about politics. Rather than being about social media, your post is about college costs, medical costs and Nancy Pelosi. You try to loosely associate it with the topic with the first and last sentence, but really it's just an off-topic rant. Then some people who agree with your opinion come and upvote your post, making it the most prominent on the page, so the discussion becomes completely derailed.
People like you ruin internet discussion for others. When every topic turns into a discussion about politics, people simply give up and stop participating.
You are the problem. Please stop.