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1. Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 05:54:41 JST Drew DeVault

   Do not write programs which spy on users. There is no excuse good enough.

   Just. Don't.

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 05:54:40 JST Drew DeVault

     in reply to

     Q: When is it okay for a program to reach out to the internet?
     A: In response to an explicit user request for it to do so.

     Q: How much data should be included in network requests?
     A: The minimum necessary.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 06:09:52 JST Drew DeVault

     in reply to

     And the first rule of software development: the user's needs come before your desires.

   • Erik Uden :verified: (erik@social.uden.ai)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 06:22:39 JST Erik Uden :verified:

     in reply to

     • Kookie 🍪

     please show a script through which one could do this

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Kookie 🍪 (spacekookie@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 06:22:40 JST Kookie 🍪

     in reply to

     @drewdevault brb padding all my network traffic with randomly truncated versions of the bee movie script for security

   • グレェ「grey」 (byterhymer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 06:22:49 JST グレェ「grey」

     in reply to

     • Kookie 🍪
     • Erik Uden :verified:

     @Erik I mean, more or less all software prior to TCP stacks shipping with consumer based OSes was this way by default.

     e.g. Almost all Commodore Amiga Workbench software, since Workbench did not ship with a TCP stack:

     1. required a user to install a terminal program if they wanted to talk to a modem.

     2. terminal software required explicit invocation by a user to even ZMODEM receive for example.

     3. A TCP/IP stack was available (e.g. AmiTCP) but not an OS default.

     @drewdevault @spacekookie

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • グレェ「grey」 (byterhymer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 06:22:49 JST グレェ「grey」

     in reply to

     • Kookie 🍪
     • Erik Uden :verified:

     @Erik That may seem like a "high bar" but it really wasn't.

     "Aminet was the largest public archive of software for any platform until around 1996."

     Now? The entirety of Aminet would fit on a thumb drive that probably cost less than $20 USD.

     IMHO, the Amiga was the zenith of consumer computing hardware & software design.

     Almost everything in the consumer sector since Commodore's demise has felt like a bad rehash, emphasis on bad.

     @drewdevault @spacekookie