if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
yes, it is frequently very the fuck difficult to figure out the context wherein a user might choose to do a thing that constitutes a security problem.
that is what you are paid for. get good.
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yes, it is frequently very the fuck difficult to figure out the context wherein a user might choose to do a thing that constitutes a security problem.
that is what you are paid for. get good.
if it were easy they wouldnae call it work, fuckface.
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if it were easy they wouldnae call it work, fuckface.
now, I will grant, for those of us who grew up dealing with asshole elders who refused to even consider learning how to interact with computers and demanded things "just work" that were wholly unreasonable, yeah, the 80s, '90s, and early '00s sucked.
get over it.
the fucking boomer dipshits are dying off, and a bunch of zeds and alphas are growing up with an ecosystem that's completely fucked for any attempt to learn on their own.
perhaps fix things for them instead of assuming they magically had access to magazines with BASIC listings and permissive environments where experimentation was at least tolerated, instead of being given a fucking menuless UI on a locked-down kiosk with fuck AI search results either refusing to give them necessary knowledge because it's "Hacking" or telling them to snort glue?
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now, I will grant, for those of us who grew up dealing with asshole elders who refused to even consider learning how to interact with computers and demanded things "just work" that were wholly unreasonable, yeah, the 80s, '90s, and early '00s sucked.
get over it.
the fucking boomer dipshits are dying off, and a bunch of zeds and alphas are growing up with an ecosystem that's completely fucked for any attempt to learn on their own.
perhaps fix things for them instead of assuming they magically had access to magazines with BASIC listings and permissive environments where experimentation was at least tolerated, instead of being given a fucking menuless UI on a locked-down kiosk with fuck AI search results either refusing to give them necessary knowledge because it's "Hacking" or telling them to snort glue?
have you -seen- the world that they're experiencing now?
shit, the modern mobile OSs don't even want to acknowledge that filesystems exist in the UI. how the shit is a kid supposed to learn the "correct" way to do things in this situation?
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
@munin just because it's a skill issue on your end doesn't mean the users aren't stupid.
and:
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
@munin All of this. The users are the client, the guest, the audience, the reason. Even if someone else is paying you, it’s kinda your job to make it, well, usable
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have you -seen- the world that they're experiencing now?
shit, the modern mobile OSs don't even want to acknowledge that filesystems exist in the UI. how the shit is a kid supposed to learn the "correct" way to do things in this situation?
@munin That's where interest in finding out, IT lessons at school, reading and tinkering come into play. But if a user isn't interested in how the tool.they're using work, they will not attempt to learn.
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@munin That's where interest in finding out, IT lessons at school, reading and tinkering come into play. But if a user isn't interested in how the tool.they're using work, they will not attempt to learn.
buddy, you can only have an interest in finding out if the resources are -there to tell you that there's something to find out-
you're blaming users for not knowing about something they're deliberately told doesn't exist.
that's fucked up.
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
@munin love making an impossible to navigate ui full of pitfalls and declaring that users should "git gud"
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if you think the users are stupid, then you are letting your own arrogance reduce your own ability to analyze the problem space fully.
users do things that make sense to them in the moment. failure to understand the context where an action -makes sense- and is thus the correct action to choose is a skill issue on your part.
@munin
> Jesus, these users do so much stupid shit, what the hell?
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buddy, you can only have an interest in finding out if the resources are -there to tell you that there's something to find out-
you're blaming users for not knowing about something they're deliberately told doesn't exist.
that's fucked up.
@munin You can (still) run busybox on your phoneOS. You can hack a RasPi at school. The pointers are there. The resources are there. But perhaps I'm missing something and I didn't get the point you were making?
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@munin You can (still) run busybox on your phoneOS. You can hack a RasPi at school. The pointers are there. The resources are there. But perhaps I'm missing something and I didn't get the point you were making?
yes, the part where the comment you responded to saying that -new users- who -do not have experience- have all of those concepts deliberately the fuck hidden from them by the UI they are given, such that - even if they are curious - they are actively lied to -by the research resources- on a regular basis, and thus have no opportunity for success -with- their curiosity.
The workflow you are describing is -not reasonable- for your average 10 year old in this year, and shows that you are engaging in the though process I described in the last paragraph of the -prior- post: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116771824701213509
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yes, the part where the comment you responded to saying that -new users- who -do not have experience- have all of those concepts deliberately the fuck hidden from them by the UI they are given, such that - even if they are curious - they are actively lied to -by the research resources- on a regular basis, and thus have no opportunity for success -with- their curiosity.
The workflow you are describing is -not reasonable- for your average 10 year old in this year, and shows that you are engaging in the though process I described in the last paragraph of the -prior- post: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116771824701213509
Just because something is technically possible for an informed user does not mean that a user who has been -constrained from learning- will even know that such a thing exists.
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have you -seen- the world that they're experiencing now?
shit, the modern mobile OSs don't even want to acknowledge that filesystems exist in the UI. how the shit is a kid supposed to learn the "correct" way to do things in this situation?
@munin Proprietary corps don't give a shit. Uneducated users are their lifeblood. They'll sell you the manual, and the course, and send marketing to cover for you (if it's not their fault).
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@munin love making an impossible to navigate ui full of pitfalls and declaring that users should "git gud"
@artemist It's easy, just read the manual and try the included programming language amirite
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@munin Proprietary corps don't give a shit. Uneducated users are their lifeblood. They'll sell you the manual, and the course, and send marketing to cover for you (if it's not their fault).
and this cynical attitude disclaiming ability to make changes reinforces those patterns; do better.
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@munin love making an impossible to navigate ui full of pitfalls and declaring that users should "git gud"
@artemist
Love how that attitude is born of Dark Souls's ads rather than the content. I've got a hand eye coordination thing, Your Excellency. DS's interface isn't without flaws, but it's not in the way. The friction is where it should be, the challenge in the game.AND to Fi's original point, if all your users are idiots why are you designing for normies or geniuses? No, you're just saying you don't want to make the effort to communicate with the end user through interface and help.
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and this cynical attitude disclaiming ability to make changes reinforces those patterns; do better.
@munin Just representing the truth honestly. People don't get angry enough. Sometimes it's the right choice - particularly, when dealing with outright narcissism.
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buddy, you can only have an interest in finding out if the resources are -there to tell you that there's something to find out-
you're blaming users for not knowing about something they're deliberately told doesn't exist.
that's fucked up.
@munin @jsl
"you can only have an interest in finding out if the resources are -there to tell you that there's something to find out"
Yeah this kind of conundrum is why I've suggested creating GUIs where being a "know-nothing luser" is impossible:
https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B61RfP0sq02tRTpIjw
It'd be really cool if someone made a desktop environment where you can to pull up a program's source code by just right-clicking on the window or launcher icon: or if you could invoke those context menus from a button on the window bar.
(bonus points if the Linux Phone people add this functionality to an Android-style navigation bar)
