Have you heard of the ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’? It’s the (apparent) tendency for unskilled people to overestimate their competence. Discovered in 1999 by psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning, the effect has since become famous.
Several times I’ve seen a post online that says something like this:
There are two very different types of respect; respect for a person as a human being, and respect for a person as an authority. But because we use the same word for these two different things, people often talk as if they were the same thing. So for example, when someone in authority says “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” What they’re actually saying (and justifying) is “If you don’t respect me as an authority, I won’t respect you as a human being.”
Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering images, large bloated text, and excessive negative space result in long pages requiring more scrolling to consume all content. We call this design trend content dispersion.
Version courte : Au risque de faire des déçus, non l’autonomie électrique solaire n’est pas « rentable économiquement » au moment où j’écris ces lignes. Sauf dans certains cas exceptionnels, bien sûr. Par contre, je pense que ça peut être écologiquement soutenable de vivre sobrement en autonomie électrique.
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.
From the bustling technological hub of Shenzhen, the pseudonymous Naomi Wu, who is also widely known as "Sexy Cyborg", emerged as a striking embodiment of DIY tech prowess and authenticity. Her presence graced my Twitter feed for many years as an avatar of idealized femininity who proffered creative technical innovations, typically of her own creation, to a delighted Western audience, myself included...
In this article, I delve into the reasons behind the stagnation of our tech stacks and explain how this issue isn't isolated; instead, we encounter a similar category of challenges akin to those posed by the nuclear arms race and climate change.
In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers.
On the surface, it appears to be a comprehensive effort to enhance trust and security in the digital landscape. However, as with many sweeping technological proposals, it's not without controversy.
The tech community, especially on GitHub, has raised several eyebrows and voiced significant criticism.
Les vieux ressassent souvent que « c’était mieux avant » et que « tout se désagrège ». Le trope semble éculé. Mais s’il contenait une part de vérité ? Et si, réellement, nous étions dans une période où la plupart des services devenaient merdiques ? Et si le capitalo-consumérime était entré dans sa phase de « merdification » ?
Le terme original « enshitification » a été proposé par l’auteur/blogueur Cory Doctorow qui parle quotidiennement du phénomène sur son blog. Je propose la traduction « merdification ».
Pluralistic, le blog de Cory Doctorow
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