"Don't watch the sun rise. Get up earlier and let the sun watch you rise".

• Giga Chad

Data minimization is really a slept-on security control that gets almost no press or attention outside narrow industry verticals.

En Français

La minimisation des données est en réalité une sécurité invisible qui ne reçoit pratiquement pas de presse ou d'attention en dehors de secteurs verticaux étroits.

Auf Deutsch

Datenminimierung ist wirklich eine schlafende Sicherheitskontrolle, die außerhalb enger Industriezweige fast keine Aufmerksamkeit erhält.

The challenges of creating accessible products often lead to innovative solutions that benefit all users, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in design.

"Kids are safer at drag shows than at church"

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

Let’s start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity.

It’s a behemoth that thrives on relentless growth, often at a devastating cost. Under its reign, we witness the widening chasm of inequality, where the affluent soar on the wings of wealth while the less fortunate are left to the whims of an unforgiving market.

Our planet, the cradle of life itself, is treated as a commodity, its resources extracted with reckless abandon, its delicate ecosystems pushed to the brink for profit.
– Joan Westenberg, How to quit capitalism

Kids your age. Pimple-faced college drop outs who have made unhealthy sums of money forming internet companies that create no concrete products, provide no viable services, and still manage to generate profits for all of its lazy day-trading son-of-a bitch shareholders. Meanwhile, as a tortured member of the disenfranchised proletariat, you find some altruistic need to protect these digital plantation-owners? - from the movie Serendipity

These bugs highlight the risk of unknown unknowns, i.e. stability issues in our stability monitoring itself that we are blind to

"Okay, here's the scenario. You are a crew member on a starship."
"Cool."
"Space travel is slow, you'll be stuck with your crewmates a long time."
"So we must get along."
"Yes. Communicate, listen, share limited resources."
"I can do that. What's the starship called?"
"Earth."

It is when you start to not be fully able that

Through all of it, I’ve found myself noticing “accessibility” helpers more than ever before: that railing on the stairs, that ramp off to the side of the building, that elevator tucked away in the back.

1 in 5 people currently have a disability. 100% of people will have some form of disability in their lifetime.

Une antilope courait.

Un éléphant lui demanda:

• Pourquoi cours-tu comme ça?
• La police arrête toutes les chèvres du village.
• Mais tu n’es pas une chèvre!

L’antilope répliqua :

• Avec la justice actuelle ça me prendra 20 ans pour le prouver. Alors l’éléphant se mit à courir aussi.

Si nous ne sommes pas présumé innocent ou que la justice prend du temps à traiter une affaire, cela inclus alors une inégalité désavantageant la victime.

In his 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination, the great sociologist C. Wright Mills told students of the discipline:

As a social scientist, you have to … capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman. But how can you do this? One answer is to set up a blog: there is joined personal experience and professional activities, studies underway, and studies planned. In this blog, you … will try to get together what you are doing intellectually and what you are experiencing as a person. here you will not be afraid to relate your experience directly to various works in progress. By serving as a check on repetitious work, your blog also enables you to conserve your energy. It also encourages you to capture ‘fringe thoughts’: various ideas which may be byproducts of everyday life, snatches of conversation overheard in the street, or, for that matter, dreams. Once noted, these may lead to more systematic thinking and lend intellectual relevance to more directed experience.

"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

It sounds right...

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

A typical pattern describes the problem, the chosen solution, the rationale behind that solution, related patterns that the designer should be aware of, and other relevant details, such as the results of usability testing.– Jared Spool

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

The people who work for you have three resources: time, energy, and give-a-fuck.

Time is the cheapest. It replenishes one hour every hour.

Energy is more expensive. When you're out, you need lots of time off to recharge.

Once give-a-fuck is burned, it's gone forever.

Got a point here

Working hard for something you hate is called stress.
Working hard for something you love is called passion.

All quotes of Notepad++ are available in its source code

𝗡𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗲̂𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝗻 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿.