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Gliding7682

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Gliding7682··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
I like this phrase from the post you shared:

> A species that cannot follow the reasoning of its own systems does not supervise them; it simply inhabits them until they stop working.

I feel this idea is closely related to additive bias. People are scared of breaking things, so the safest way is to just add another tiny part to an already complex system. As cognitive debt accumulates faster, this additive bias just becomes stronger imo.

Gliding7682··on Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux
I'm glad it's possible to disable it on KDE + Wayland. I don't know if it's just me, but when I tried to use Gnome with a touchpad I ended up pasting text everywhere.
Gliding7682··on Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux
As a former Windows user I find the middle mouse paste feature makes Gnome nearly unusable. At least Firefox has an option to disable it. However, Chromium and by extension most Electron apps do not have any setting to disable this on Wayland: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3744