posted in Technology
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/Replying to @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
The entire fucking point of the Web was to make information as easily-accessible as possible, structured and semantically tagged, and consumable by humans and further machine transformation alike. “Scraping” is facilitated by design!
Using Javascript to deliberately break that is evil and every programmer who participates it is a piece of shit. No exceptions.
Its amazing to me how consistently the shitty behaviours of these billionaire techbro oligarchs impact disabled or marginalised people… even when the point isnt to directly shit on them. Its fucking vile.
I honestly think many (too many, but certainly not all! I am one) programmers are some of the immoral, ethically spurious people around in the 21st century.
Replying to @PurpleFanatic@quokk.au
That is why they want AI to replace programmers. AI morals are programmed, so they can be designed to do shitty things that a normal person would refuse.