• Modern C++ considered harmful.
  
  Specifically, it is no better for memory safety than C, and arguably worse because it is more complicated and has more scope for subtle bugs.
  
  Use Rust if you need to be close to the metal, Go if you like C syntax but don't need to be that close to the metal, or Crystal if you rightly loathe C syntax.
  
  
• AI models considered harmful.
  
  At least, if you don't pay attention to them, they will keep doing their own thing while conditions around them change until the answers they produce are no longer even remotely correct.
  
  
• Online feuds considered harmful.  (The Verge)
  
  It's not the people who actually run the DDOS servers who go to jail, it's whoever the FBI can actually track down.
  
  
• Heavy metals considered harmful.  (CBC)
  
  Unless - ahem - bark bark I'm a shark.
  
  
• Language wars considered harmful.  (Hacker News)
  
  But fun.  And not all that harmful, really.
  
  
• Notifications considered harmful.
  
  Anyone with a busy social media account (on any platform) has turned off notifications.  I don't and I have anyway.
  
  
• Facial recognition considered harmful.  (Engadget)
  
  Your facial recognition system is 99.98% accurate.  Congratulations!  You just matched it to a fake ID and arrested the wrong person.
  
  
• The EU considered harmful.  (ZDNet)
  
  Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
  
  
• Zombie deer considered harmful.  (The Compost)
  
  "Zombie Deer Virus" is actually another prion disease.  Like we need more of those.
  
  Infected deer meat can be made safe by reducing it to ash.  Seriously, no amount of cooking will stop a prion disease; you have to actually destroy the protein molecules.
  
  
• Google considered harmful.  (Arxiv.org PDF)
  
  We can't stop here, this is MS Fnd in a Lbry country.
  
  
• Free speech considered harmful.
  
  Wait, what?  Oh, the New York Times.  Never mind.
  
  
• Lenovo ThinkPad P72 considered harmful - to your credit card.
  
  A powerful mobile workstation, yes.   Affordable, not so much.
  
  
• Scientific Linux considered, uh, deceased.  (Phoronix)
  
  It still works but there won't be a Scientific Linux 8.  It's all CentOS from here on out.
  
  
• Windows 10 April update considered harmful.
  
  If you're an antivirus vendor.  They've been scrambling to fix things after Microsoft broke most third-party anti-virus software with a new patch.
  
  
• SanDisk pricing considered - rats, I missed the sale.  (Amazon, via Tech Report)
  
  It was $25 for a 200GB card, apparently.  Now it's all the way back up to $31.  And $64 for 400GB.  Or A$100.02 including GST, which is not bad.
  
  No sign of the new 1TB cards so far.
  
  
• Huawei considered harmful.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Paywalls also considered harmful, but eh.  Google and Facebook have stolen all the ad money and you have to make a living somehow.
  

• I tried Chunibyo when it first aired and bounced off after a single episode.  Giving it another try now, and yes, it's a lot better than my first impression led me to think.
  
  I've been watching a lot more anime lately because I've been working with Ethereum, and it's horrible beyond all imagining and I need something to reset my brain afterwards.  Even Golden Time, which frankly was kind of bad.

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