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points by meindnoch 3 days ago | 0 comments

Yes, they were always tasteless. One job of a platform SDK is to enable creating tasteful things that mesh nicely with the platform idioms, and make it hard to create tasteless things.

With AI, creating the tasteless thing became easy.

If you give people the ability to select a font, they will select Comic Sans.

[–] mrob 3 days ago

Giving developers the ability to impose Comic Sans on the users is bad. Giving users the ability to make their own tasteless choices is good. It's my computer and I'll make it ugly if I want to. Windows 3.1 included the famous "Hot Dog Stand" theme. The loss of this freedom only encourages user-hostile practices.

[–] wyclif 3 days ago

Seeing this makes it hard to believe that I actually used iTerm2 for a few years back when I was still on macOS.

[–] rf15 3 days ago

... in pink on yellow too, if you add a color picker.