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Right so, because I care about the web & the dangers this tech represents, I should be ignored. Because I think it's evil & damaging to humanity, you think that
by rektide 4y ago
Right so, because I care about the web & the dangers this tech represents, I should be ignored. Because I think it's evil & damaging to humanity, you think that means I shouldn't be able to post. From a post you linked yesterday, here's another Flutter defender's take:
> Not to mention, this is nothing new. We used to have Flash, after all.
Building a new Flash on the web is a dangerous track to go down, and is bad for society. You've "called me out" on not liking hearing that. You ad-hominem attack the crap out of me when I post. Your qualms are centered around tone-policing, & you have concocted yellow journalistic muckraking/ad-hominem attacks to blow me off, or make off-topic excuses.
You're absolutely right that I have long been around & made many similar comments. Should I be ashamed over a real concern? Does that change the danger here? Sometimes my language varies. It's yet more very-low-caliber anger to suggest that finding an example or two of somewhat more than mild language- over a fundamentally correct & dangerous issue that absolutely should raise alarm- is enough to cut me off. Where I come from, real & genuine people look for the best interpretations of what the other person is saying. False & shallow people use short & stupid arbitrary hurdles to try to trip each other up. Rather than complain & stick it to me about my tone, you should try understanding & acknowledging the content. Rather than diffuse, you should responsibly acknowledge why feelings are so high here: this is a mortal threat to the worldwide web of information, a subversion of it into another shallow corporate-controlled top-down app delivery platform (like Flash, like native).
Maybe Tim should ignore me. That's fine. But I find your arguments to be misleading. Tim should ignore me because his effort destroy core values & principles of the interlinkable worldwide of information, that represents some of the best things humanity has done. Because what is he is doing is wrong & bad for user-agency, bad for the shared web of information, reducing everything we interact with from high-level malleable structures of information, to crude Canvas bitmaps. Maybe Tim should ignore me, but not because I once used a less than polite word.
This is my track record on this issue of CanvasKit & it's danger. It's not all perfect, but the spirit is correct & wave it proud. This is a core technosocial topic, a good moral & just cause, against a new emerging Flash-grade threat to the internet, wearing a sheep-skin cloak of respectability by declaring flat low-level Canvas to be equal stature to the contentful structured HTML "web" (and badmouthing the DOM as only useful for some narrow "documents" use?). I generally am trying pretty hard most of the time to be civil & decent, but yes, you can absolutely find some more radical words in there too, owing to the radical & existential degree of this vast threat. Here's 3 years here for folks to judge for themselves across:
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