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by tardedmeme 24 days ago
Idiot proofing is part of what makes a good spec good.
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ssl-3 24 days ago
The spec is good. Spec-compliant devices tolerate idiot users extremely well.

The implementers of the spec are sometimes errant nimrods, though. Errant nimrods can bring a bad time to any party they decide to be involved in. This can be particularly problematic when they're weaponized by having their own manufacturing divisions.

(And that's not new: Errant nimrods have been in charge of manufacturing fucked up devices for as long as we've had devices for them to fuck up. Probably centuries, by now; maybe longer.)

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tardedmeme 24 days ago
Implementers and end users are both customers of the spec.
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izacus 23 days ago
I see a lot of complaining and very little proposed alternatives. What do you propose USB-C standard should have done?
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ssl-3 24 days ago
Sure.

But only one of these groups is responsible for supplying actual-fucking-hardware to the group that simply uses it.

And sometimes, that group consists of errant fucking nimrods.

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