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@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ But that would require apps to work on the old paradigm - where they read and wr
 
 ### web browsers
 
-It's no secret that mobile web browsers are just skins on chrome. This is who google dictates your experience to maximize your diet of ads.
+It's no secret that mobile web browsers are just skins on chrome. This is how google dictates your experience to maximize your diet of ads.
 Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing.
 [//TODO: the article where they got caught in a pr]
 Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing. Up until recently, they were trying to preserve at least some of that.
@@ -164,9 +164,55 @@ Everyone hates ads. Everyone hates pop-up ads **much** more, because they pop-up
 No one has ever googled something, read a random blog's page, and signed up for its newsletter.
 No one has ever opened their phone's music player or GPS app and read the patch notes - and I say that as someone who did read the patch notes for skullgirls, and always reads EULAs. It's almost funny that they're audacious enough to jump in the way and ask to to read two thousand words about the changes they're very proud of getting 2/3rds of the way done before release, that 2/3rds of their users don't want and 2/3rds don't understand. you're trying to *do* something, if there was ever a time you would read their patch notes, it's not at startup.
 
+## onboarding
+
+At best, onboarding can be a necessary evil. Typically, it's unnecessary, and just exists to ensure you immediately sink some effort cost. A mind game to manipulate you into sticking around. 
+[note] "server" is discord's (inaccurate) term
+Discord servers are notorious for spiraling out of control. 
+I once joined a server that had, no joke, over 100 channels. People were great, but I can't pretend that I'll ever keep up with it.
+Discord users started forming a pattern - you join, and most channels are hidden, then some bot assigns you appropriate roles to see some. That's neat technology, but the wrong approach - the right answer is to accept that your server is overengineered. 
+[//TODO: footage of discord's built-in onboarding]
+What's worse is that discord itself is enshrining this as a built-in feature - so now every time discord updates their app unnecessarily, and it forgets you, you have to go through the much slower version of the same process. 
+[meme about discord 2012 vs discord 2022]
+meanwhile the entire reason discord exists is that it allows you to get your dumbest, least tech-savvy friends on a voice call for game chat with minimum friction.
+
+## security theater
+
+Security theater has a lot of overlap with other problems. 
+Surely I don't have to remind you that flying is a nightmare, almost entirely for 1 reason: the TSA. this section could overtake the rest of the video so let's limit our griping as much as possible:
+[https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123834246/is-the-tsa-security-theater-or-essential-to-national-security]
+The TSA is security theater. 
+One dude tried and failed to bring explosives in in his shoes, so now the TSA demands that americans remove their shoes. 
+[https://reason.com/2021/09/09/why-dont-more-countries-enforce-the-airport-security-rules-that-the-tsa-says-are-essential/]
+That's very rare, most other countries don't do this.
+[//TODO: I think that article has a flash download of the interview. https://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.israel/index.html]
+For example Israel - they're very good at this. rather than spending money on shiny new toys they train their workers to do their jobs, well. the greatest emphasis is interviewing passengers. From that article, they're quoting Isaac Yeffet: 
+[show the quote on screen, too]
+> In 2002, we had Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. This man gave the security people all the suspicious signs that any passenger could show. The man got a British passport in Belgium, not in England. Number Two: he flew to Paris, he bought a one-way ticket from Paris to Florida. He paid cash. He came to the airport with no luggage. What else do I need to know that this passenger is suspicious?
+> What did we learn from this? Just to tell the passenger from now on, you take off your shoes when you come to the airport? This I call a patch on top of a patch.
+[https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa-misses-70-of-fake-weapons-but-thats-an-improvement/#a106f082a38d]
+Meanwhile in the US, for all the effort they put into telling you that what they're doing to you is for your protection, they miss 70% of test weapons.
+[https://time.com/archive/6913061/airport-screeners-dress-for-respect/]
+..hey, remember in 2008 when the TSA felt entitled to more respect so they switched their uniforms to make them look exactly like police officers?
+[in a "laugh so you don't cry" tone]
+hahhh.
+anyway. 
+It takes forever to get through security, which of course is a problem airports are happy to exacerbate so they can sell you some other horrible product that only exists to violate your privacy to sell your data, doesn't make you more secure, and expects you to pay for the privilege. I think the present fad is something called CLEAR.
+ok, NSA tangent over, back to nerd shit.
+
+Websites are afraid of DDoS attacks. A web server is a fallible thing that can only deliver so much. But that isn't why a disgusting number of websites block VPNs.
+[Great Thing checklist: purpose, conception, execution, effect]
+VPN services are almost the greatest business around right now - excellent in purpose, excellent in conception, pretty good in execution, but they're losing the arms race, so no points for effect.
+Imgur, for example, sees an IP that doesn't look residential, and I guess as a service to the world where they prevent bots being trained on the least intelligent community's proud tradition of selfies and reposts, they throw up an error.
+[https://www.vulcanforums.com/forums/]
+oh here's a whole forum for the particular make and model of my motorcycle - blank white page, and http error 406. Which is the wrong error message, btw - you can't pretend I asked you for a format you can't provide, when you provided my stock web browser with valid HTML.
+[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node]
+Here's some ideologues, who theoretically *want* to propagate their ideas into as many minds, maybe even neural networks, as possible? Mysterious connection timeout.
+unfortunately that's where the manual for emacs is hosted; in my case that means that my attempts to self-indoctrinate need me to look elsewhere.
+
 ## where we went wrong
 
-These apps don't think they're a means to an end. They think they're an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ. 
+All of these tools don't think they're a means to an end. They think they're an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ. 
 [crash different video: you're taking part in the apple experience, etc]
 They want to *increase* the time spent in an app. I assume this is favorable for ad revenue metrics. For those of us who actually do things, an app is a tool, and a tool is better when it *decreases* the time it takes to get shit done.
 
@@ -197,8 +243,18 @@ A recurring problem is that as a user, i haven't gained functionality, but I hav
 Imagine you had a coworker, and when you try to do something, he gets in your way and does it (badly). now you have to spend twice as long because you also have to clean up after your predecessor.
 
 [add to rules list]
-Limit your autonomy to tasks you can handle.
+Do only what you can.
 
+### focus
+
+see, discord story. More features does not mean better.
+
+This one is a well known one from our predecessors, graybeards from before even myself - they said that The Linux Way is to do only one thing, and do it well.
+Or, as the world's favorite libertarian would say: 
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6hZ9KdG1QU - something to the effect of...] never half-ass 2 things. Whole-ass 1 thing.
+
+[add to rules list]
+Do only what you must.
 
 ### transparency
 
@@ -264,3 +320,11 @@ no one wants to chat with your chatbot - if anyone wants to have a conversation,
 scrolling is not an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ, every vehicle website ever.
 If you want to "customize my experience" before I'm allowed to have one, the answer to all of your questions is "whatever gets you to go fuck yourself".
 
+## Examples
+
+We've got our handy-dandy list, let's look at some examples and be judgmental.
+[have the list on screen as a checklist]
+
+## windows 10
+
+//TODO:

script artifacts/ux rules.md

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+* Do only what you can
+* Be transparent
+* Allow customiztion
+* Don't enclose the commons
+* Conform to known paradigms
+* Avoid anti-featuress