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   Owen (spoopy aspect) (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:10:16 JST Owen (spoopy aspect)

   I dunno, but I have a feeling that the normalization of automatic updates has relieved developers and their clients of having to consider a user's needs to a large degree. Software change is now something you do to your users, not something you persuade your users to accept.

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     Owen (spoopy aspect) (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 05:10:58 JST Owen (spoopy aspect)

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     The classic changelog serves, among other purposes, to persuade users of the importance of installing an update. The vestigial changelog - "Bug fixes and feature improvements" - is a frank admission that we no longer feel like there's any point in doing the suasion when users don't get to say no in the first place.

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