Things I Dislike

This is a non-exhaustive list of some things that I want to rant about.

Bloatware ~

As a matter of principle, clients should preferably be simple at a primitive level, only including absolute necessities and without introducing features that replicate another software's job; it just clutters the UI beyond recognition (with its layers upon layers of toolbars, dropdown menus, and buttons), increases the loading time, makes bugs and security issues more likely (and thus tiring the developers to keep up with open issues), confuses, disgusts, and distracts the users, makes the software harder to use in the way it was originally intended for, and decreases efficiency since the feature won't do it as well as the actual programs built for that sole purpose, and it won't be used anyway for most of the time by most users.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

James Zawinski

Putting more than one type of functionality in any program which is unnecessary and irrelevant to its usage is pointlessly duplicating the job of the window manager. On the other hand, every feature relevant to the usage of certain programs should simply be ruled out as extensions (i.e., plugins, patches, etc.), so they can be excluded from the core (thus nullifying interdependency), tested separately, scrapped easily, and removed or replaced at any time by the user's own will without fear of any problem.

Another important point is that any extension should always be relevant to the usage of a specific software (in a sense) to avoid piling shit upon shit, which is prevalent in many software like Emacs and Neovim; sometimes a text editor is just a text editor, not an operating system. I understand that vanilla Neovim is unusable without a bunch of quality-of-life plugins improving usability, but with useless plugins (like an image viewer, a frontend for YouTube, or a minigame), I don't think it'll have anything to do with "text editing" or "programming" anymore. You might as well just pull out an entire ledger of NodeJS dependencies and Rust crates which let you generate 1000x times more AI code by spending hours to enable the pissenshitten function in the poopenfarten configuration files of your boykisser.nvim plugin. I'm just so sorry you were born this way. </3

Cloud Storage ~

The fact you have your own HDD/SSD (with backups) means there's absolutely no need to store your data on someone else's computer, unless it's stuff you want to be available to others in a fast convenient way.

Dependency on Reviews ~

Often times on gaming forums, for example, there's always that one post asking or even debating what's the "best" game there is. In reality, this is counter-productive because there's truly no such thing as a "best role-playing game," "best visual novel," "best slice-of-life manga," etc., only those that other people perceive them as such. The concept of a "best" game (especially across genres) lacks objective criteria and becomes increasingly ambiguous, as it equates to comparing apples and oranges. People's works offer diverse perspectives and can provoke various reactions that may evolve with time and exposure; exploring unfamiliar territories can be rewarding, it can enhance one's appreciation for them.

Discord's Social Issue ~

It's well-known that Discord is a proprietary piece of spyware, but it's also the reason so many communities have broken apart; it killed almost every forum online (along with all online cultures and identities) and instead centralized media into groups populated and managed by mostly awful people, which is because almost all garbage communities somehow took refuge in that mental asylum. Joining any Discord server takes zero effort or investment, pretty much anyone can join any group with no strings attached, then simply lurk around and never interact with anyone or even read what's going on inside of that group. Unlike other chatting services (e.g., IRC), there's no obligation whatsoever for a Discord user to ever contribute to the group in any way, mostly because the user is part of far more groups than he should be in at once, which would also take away time used to bond and make friendships with others, and as such, Discord makes forgetting (or ghosting) people seem like a trivial thing to do. Moreover, the "continuous chatroom" structure is cancer as you simply can't just start a new topic of conversation; either you participate in Touhou circlejerking (and promptly get ignored by people if you're a relatively new member) or you don't talk at all. You have to sit and wait patiently for an indefinite amount of time for the conversation to end before you can start something new, but since Discord servers are either too big or too small, there's either never a moment of silence or nothing but constant mute horror.

Gradual Implementation of the Sharī'ah ~

It's truly saddening to see many Muslims adopting the stances of the Muslim Brotherhood (and any so-called "Islamist" political party, for that matter) regarding the Islamic Sharī'ah, which is that its implementation should be a "step-by-step transition," as if they haven't learned a lesson from 2014. How gradual should it be, then? If the timeline required for its actual implementation depends on "more Da'wah" and "Islamic awareness," will it then take an entire day? A week? A month? A year? A decade? A century? Never (in case the people never accept it)? The reality is that, throughout all human societies, the law is the law; you either obey it or you face punishment. There's not a single system of law on the face of the Earth that says: "It's okay to obey the law whenever you're ready and whenever you feel like it. Take your time, there's no rush at all! :3"

Improper Gatekeeping ~

There must be some sort of selectivity when it comes to gatekeeping people from a certain community; completely blocking every single person isn't a good idea, and completely allowing in every single person is still not a good idea. Both are improper and effectively destroy communities, so there's got to be a wise balance between the two.

She's telling facts, don't deny that.

You don't want to give every community AIDS, do you!?

Internet Extremism ~

One of the worst things I hate is seeing my favorite site that came a long way from a harbor of people who actually have talents and hobbies devolving to a cheap man's Stormfront run by deranged gore-addicted autists, gender-dysphoric autists and neo-Nazi autists; a hole inhabitated by disgusting autistic individuals whose only job is to post poorly made soyjaks, pepes, and pornography (for whatever reasons), where the only good posts or threads are those buried by the invalid opinions of an unstoppable horde of abortionists and genital mutilators or the constant /pol/posting and namecalling against different ethnicities and ideologies.

"Islamism" ~

The fight has always been between Islam and disbelief, and some of the biggest instances of mental retardation in our present time is the invention of the term of "Islamism" to distinguish between "Islamist" Muslims and "non-Islamist" Muslims, with the definition of an "Islamist" being "a Muslim who believes in and advocates for the application of the Sharī'ah as a legislative authority." Who then is this "Muslim" who doesn't do so!?

"Islamophobia" ~

Disbelievers are expected to fear, hate, and be intimidated by Islam, and they're supposed to anyway. Muslims walk around calling out that "there is none worthy of worship besides Allah," casually dismissing their deities and religions and opposing them as falsehoods. I don't see why some Muslims afterward seek some sort of sympathy for holdinv such a firm belief. It only ever contributes against our cause.

Light Mode ~

It may look good, but sacrificing convenience for aesthetics is totally not a good idea, at least not all the time.

Loading Screens ~

Although annoying, I perfectly understand a loading screen in video-games, as it takes a while to load all the 3D models, high-resolution textures, and lossless WAV/FLAC audio files for the audiophiles. I don't understand them on websites though. If you need a loading screen to hide the fact your webite is broken before you finally let me in, then your website is plain broken even after everything has been loaded.

Matrix ~

The developers of the Matrix chatting protocol once belonged to an (((Israeli))) company known for spying on people, and they have continuously been receiving a suspicious amount of fundraising to continue further on their development, which is an instant red flag (if you have the sheerest amount of pattern noticing capabilities). They could've improved the existing XMPP ecosystem by creating polished clients and being a server vendor, but instead they re-invented the wheel, poorly, by developing a monolithic, awfully trendy re-implementation of XMPP, with major privacy concerns (such as the pseudo-decentralizion present in their metadata collection by central Matrix servers), and with no extensibility in the protocol at all, meaning if Matrix chooses what the new version of the protocol contains and then you don't upgrade to the new one, you're basically kicked out of the federation. The only usable Matrix server (i.e., Synapse) is extremely resource hungry compared to any XMPP server, and the clients as well are so bad that most of them are either too buggy to use (e.g., FluffyChat, Cinny, Nheko) or are Electron soyware (e.g., Element). I see no reason to use Matrix.

Online Help ~

Help should be provided to those who need it without the need to connect to the internet, because a computer doesn't revolve around constant internet connection. Think about all the possibilities where people can be offline; power outages, places without Wi-Fi, temporary ISP shutdowns, moving out, or simply being me. Even if people have internet connection, offline documentation remains superior because it's fast and future-proof, whereas online documentation requires that an external website should be up at the moment of accessing (which by the way can be prone to link rot).

Pointless Abbreviations ~

I don't know where to draw the line where an abbreviation becomes "pointless" and it's entirely subjective to my opinions, but it's evident that the degradation of language into a bunch of informal unintelligible caveman grunts is a serious issue with textual communication. Excluding extremely common abbreviations, why do I have to be forced to check Urban Dictionary to look for (and memorize) the meaning of a useless abbreviation instead of the other peer in the conversation takes an extra second to communicate his point in a coherent manner? If a person can't care less to spell out a few dozen extra characters to make himself sound normal then I can't care less to read it.

Pointless Punctuation ~

Exclamation marks, ellipses, and the many other punctuations are made to reflect a change in intonation for the sole purpose of emphasis! If a whole sentence is emphasized, then none of it is! Just use periods, damn it!

Politics in Software ~

Both proprietary and free software developers are guilty of not maintaining apoliticism in their programs; using the project's socials to post propaganda instead of software updates, using an emblem or flag as the background under the software's icon, having "usage policies" unrelated to the usage of the program itself all over the its README, etc. A calculator program, a game engine, a third-party Discord client, a Firefox fork, or an alternative Minecraft launcher is not the right place to voice your thoughts on a socio-political issue, no matter how "rightful" or "noble" it may seem to you or to others; persuading others in order to seek validation for having buttsex, scissoring, cutting off your genitals and crossdressing, or other kinds of ideological advocacy in a desperate attempt to reshape reality to applaud delusions, is a poor and pathetic display of insecurity.

School ~

The educational system; the forced enlistment of children to a mental torture chamber constantly under surveillance in which they, in their the most significant brain development timeframe, waste most of it sitting on a chair amidst a sea of boisterous social retards to note down state-imposed indoctrination and pointless knowledge that they'll either forget then relearn in adulthood or drop off as redundancies because they'll never need them in their lives, then lug home with them heaps of homework that feel like legcuffs, all in order for them to clearly receive the message that they're really not in control of their lives, and that they should solve some dumb mathematical equation instead of unraveling their hidden talents and following their dreams, which are all being gradually crushed in the process. Wonderful! :3

Social Media ~

Social media is nothing but a disease whose only remedy is amputation. They're nothing more than spying platforms designed to psychologically manipulate users, promote the acceptance of immorality, advertising, constant surveillance, and conformity, as well as the employment of content moderation as a weapon with the ability to restrict movement by removing the content (((they))) "deem inappropriate." Whether they be centralized or decentralized, they're all walled gardens in the sense that you are conformed to the formats that they specify, and any quality posts are just going to be buried in the ever growing sea of goyslop and brainrot. This is why I'm of the belief that anyone who has any content worth sharing would own a website of his own; this way people can maintain everything themselves so they can post whatever they want in whatever way they want without any worries of content moderation (so long as they don't do anything illegal). Personal websites also eliminate the problem of "toxicity," because they seclude and quarantine people (and their personal ideas) to their own spaces; that way, if you don't want to see a certain website whose content you may potentially dislike, all you can do is just not to look at it or block it out of your reach.

Verbal Communication ~

Real-time voice communication is great if I'm doing something important that I can't get my eyes off of, like multiplayer gaming or watch-along sessions, otherwise it's a way less superior form of communication than textual/visual means because it hinders you from having multiple discussions, requires you to drop everything and focus on speech so that people don't reiterate statements, and it's used sometimes as a tool to mock people, de-anonymize and reveal their identities, conventionally interrupt them, raise their voices above them, and is just harder to consume and follow up with. Voice messages are even more of a no-go in some cases; they're impossible to search by their contents, take more bandwidth as well as storage space, make archival even more difficult, and they're almost always received at the worst moments possible where I'm not ready to listen to them (e.g., being in public spaces). This is why I'll probably never upload any sort of audio/video media to this site, ever.

VPN Anonymity ~

VPN services are being shilled everywhere; torrent tracking sites, privacy-focused forums, YouTube channels, etc. It doesn't matter what the marketing says, VPNs only address two aspects of your online signature:

  1. Concealing your WAN IP address from the destination servers/peers.
  2. Obfuscating traffic from network observers (e.g., ISP or other devices on the LAN).

These mere two things allow a multitude of useful applications, including but not limited to:

However, using a VPN is essentially only rotating ISPs towards the correspondent VPN service, so when you connect over one, you're only shifting the trust over from your real ISP to the VPN service (and the laws of the country it's hosted in); the model is trusted, not trustless, and VPN services can only ever be used for privacy but never anonymity. VPN services still see you connecting from your real WAN IP address (thus we can see the hundreds of reports about some VPN services selling user IP addresses to governments), and constantly remaining on a VPN connection gives out your network activity fingerprint over to some exit point (which can serve to correlate it with where it appears elsewhere, also a very useful surveillance tactic for governments), so anyone seeking actual anonymity should consider using hidden networks like I2P or Tor instead.

Web Browsers ~

Every single browser sucks (because the web itself is cancer, as I discussed on New Web Order), and is either based on Chromium or Firefox. I have yet to be convinced that any fork offers a meaningful value proposition over providing a sense of pseudo-privacy by simply ticking off telemetry in the settings and very usually being run by the mentally ill (such as Librewolf and Tor Browser), prioritizing customizability and usability over privacy (such as Zen and Floorp), being a closed-source crypto-shilling honeypot (such as Brave), or being unusable in the "modern web" (such as Pale Moon, GNU IceCat, and all independent terminal-based browsers). For now, there are no actually good browsers that completely disassociate themselves from both Google and Mozilla. Closest thing is Ladybird, which is a very promising browser because of the good reputation that SerenityOS earned it, though it may lean towards being a potential future honeypot since it has been sponsored by corporations like ProtonVPN and PCH, has been licensed under a cuck license (the BSD 2-Clause License), and has ties to IBM and Quad9, but that's definitely just me being an insecure schizo.

What I really fear for any relatively new and independent browser being actively developed (such as the aforementioned) is that Google and Mozilla will use exact same tactic that Google used to keep Firefox down. It's as simple as making purposeful issues on their services, like YouTube, Gmail, Drive, etc., with small but noticeable annoyances that will work "just fine" on Chromium and Firefox browsers, whereas it'll take two to three weeks to fix on any other alternative. That simple trick would then stop any adoption, major release, marketing campaign, as well as any excitement over the new browser, which would then lead to the project becoming bankrupt and surrendering to Google and Mozilla as a controlled opposition. That's exactly what Google did to Firefox, and later on Mozilla somehow began getting USAID funds and support in order to make sure they never surpass Chrome again, so "it doesn't seem like a monopoly."

X/Twitter ~

Putting aside the fact that it's social media (which I whined about above), there's just no "algorithm" to it as well; no matter how many retarded accounts you block, the brown Cambodian tradcath kingpin of the site will always keep appearing on your feed along with a horde of disgusting polytheists and schizophrenic ultra-Aryan anime accounts whose only job is retweet loli artwork, spread delusional political misinformation, and constantly parrot "save Europe," "deport the Muslims," "raid the mosques," and "burn the Quran," because (((Elon Musk))) wants you to see it.

YouTube Videos ~

YouTube videos are anything but simple nowadays, and getting to the point is becoming seemingly a near impossible skill to master. Back in the old days, videos contained 100% content, but these days, almost all videos follow the exact same pattern; a video would be 20-35 minutes long, full of sponsorship, irrelevancies, and those 4-6 unskippable ads throughout the video, all accompanied with a thumbnail where they make a Gapejak face out of themselves, an all-caps clickbait title, and a description that's almost entirely links to their setup, socials, alt accounts, and some book they're selling on Amazon. I understand that this is pure YouTube pressure as they have to make videos this way in order to squeeze as much ad revenue as possible (which is getting harder and harder to get with each passing year), but when "content creators" create actual garbage, then they'd better find another job instead.