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empty  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything is Broken - computers are terrible and everything is hackable

    an aphorism of purely mechanical origin

This is false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_error

The phrase you're using is and always has been derogatory. There's no ambiguity as to what's being referred to as there is with "call a spade a spade".