no computer is user friendly, theyre insanely complicated and the only reason anything seems easy is because someone's tracking you.
ppl just use what theyre familiar with until they're literally forced to do something different with a new set of insane assumptions and metaphors about fake words and pictures in a box.
I found a witch's circle out in the forest behind my house that is fond of calzones that I make. It reaches into a mycelium network and a tree broadcasts my posts to a satellite.
Neither windows or linux (or macOS , android, iOS or plan9 for that matter) are user friendly.
Computers by design are an intricate series of obfuscations and metaphors whose ease of comprehension has more to do with the amount of flight time logged by whatever poor soul happens to be using em than some fake made up metric meant to grade those obfuscations and metaphors.
well user friendliness is a metric you can design for. No computer is ever secure either in that there will always be some unaccounted vulnerability but you can say a computer is sufficiently user friendly for the target audience just as it can be sufficiently secure for the organisations needs
User friendliness still assumes familiarity with a ton of strained metaphors from the days of Xerox being a personal computing company. It's mostly about not making things worse, but it pretty much always fails to make things better.
The only exception is the Inception "BWAAAAAAT" button app. That one counts as user friendly.
User friendliness is neither a valid metric nor something that can be designed for. Slathering b*ttercr*am frosting onto the whirring sawblades slowly advancing towards my face doesn’t constitute design.
Security is fundamentally different from any useful definition of user friendliness in that it operates on the terms of the computer only. There is no difference between a tcp vulnerability that requires use of nmap and packet manipulation or one that requires clicking a few buttons in excel. Both are insecure and do not require that a person be involved.
no usability as in ease for a user to understand how they are doing something is in fact a measureable and important metric.
Similarly security policy has to consider users and their allowed behavior and levels of authentication. I'm sorry but computers don't exist in a vaccuum and have users
Any metric of usability requires that the evaluator make a series of arbitrary and capricious assumptions first.
Even a person who doesn’t accept the fundamental inhumanity of computing has to recognize that all usability evaluators have some stake in the subjects, process or broader ideas they’re evaluating and do nothing to document or control for these assumptions and often obfuscate them.
Security is at least measured in ways that can sometimes avoid a big ol bag of made up assumptions about what’s important.
emulator what are you talking about you test usability by trials with prospective users or other humans. Something not being testable by a machine doesn't mean it can't be tested
Never seen incorrect or completely off base results come from a trial. Good thing we have an unimpeachable method of designing studies and evaluating results that never falls victim to systemic problems whose root lies in the very assumptions our institutions are founded upon.
Wait, is that Unpublished Corporate Research’s music I hear?
no computer is user friendly, theyre insanely complicated and the only reason anything seems easy is because someone's tracking you.
ppl just use what theyre familiar with until they're literally forced to do something different with a new set of insane assumptions and metaphors about fake words and pictures in a box.
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i inform my particularly intelligent owl to go to the library and write my particularly intelligent screeds to hexbear.net, a christian website
I found a witch's circle out in the forest behind my house that is fond of calzones that I make. It reaches into a mycelium network and a tree broadcasts my posts to a satellite.
:hentai-free: :owl-pissed:
:jesse-wtf:
Neither windows or linux (or macOS , android, iOS or plan9 for that matter) are user friendly.
Computers by design are an intricate series of obfuscations and metaphors whose ease of comprehension has more to do with the amount of flight time logged by whatever poor soul happens to be using em than some fake made up metric meant to grade those obfuscations and metaphors.
well user friendliness is a metric you can design for. No computer is ever secure either in that there will always be some unaccounted vulnerability but you can say a computer is sufficiently user friendly for the target audience just as it can be sufficiently secure for the organisations needs
User friendliness still assumes familiarity with a ton of strained metaphors from the days of Xerox being a personal computing company. It's mostly about not making things worse, but it pretty much always fails to make things better.
The only exception is the Inception "BWAAAAAAT" button app. That one counts as user friendly.
User friendliness is neither a valid metric nor something that can be designed for. Slathering b*ttercr*am frosting onto the whirring sawblades slowly advancing towards my face doesn’t constitute design.
Security is fundamentally different from any useful definition of user friendliness in that it operates on the terms of the computer only. There is no difference between a tcp vulnerability that requires use of nmap and packet manipulation or one that requires clicking a few buttons in excel. Both are insecure and do not require that a person be involved.
no usability as in ease for a user to understand how they are doing something is in fact a measureable and important metric.
Similarly security policy has to consider users and their allowed behavior and levels of authentication. I'm sorry but computers don't exist in a vaccuum and have users
Any metric of usability requires that the evaluator make a series of arbitrary and capricious assumptions first.
Even a person who doesn’t accept the fundamental inhumanity of computing has to recognize that all usability evaluators have some stake in the subjects, process or broader ideas they’re evaluating and do nothing to document or control for these assumptions and often obfuscate them.
Security is at least measured in ways that can sometimes avoid a big ol bag of made up assumptions about what’s important.
emulator what are you talking about you test usability by trials with prospective users or other humans. Something not being testable by a machine doesn't mean it can't be tested
Oh well if it’s a trial that changes everything.
Never seen incorrect or completely off base results come from a trial. Good thing we have an unimpeachable method of designing studies and evaluating results that never falls victim to systemic problems whose root lies in the very assumptions our institutions are founded upon.
Wait, is that Unpublished Corporate Research’s music I hear?