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# Update Culture
Update culture is a malicious mindset emerging in a [capitalist](capitalism.md) society which in technology manifests by developers of a (typically [bloated](bloat.md)) program creating frequent modifications called "updates" (sometimes also more sneakily masked under terms such as [progress](leading_the_pig_to_the_slaughterhouse.md) or [modernization](modern.md)) and forcing users to keep [consuming](consumerism.md) them, e.g. by deprecating or neglecting old versions, dropping [backwards compatibility](backwards_compatibility.md) (e.g. [Python](python.md)) or by downright forcing updates in code. This often manifests by a familiar pop-up message:
Update culture is a malicious mindset emerging in a [capitalist](capitalism.md) society which in [technology](tech.md) manifests by developers of a (typically [bloated](bloat.md)) program creating frequent modifications called "updates" (sometimes also more sneakily masked under terms such as [progress](leading_the_pig_to_the_slaughterhouse.md) or [modernization](modern.md)) and forcing users to keep [consuming](consumerism.md) them, e.g. by deprecating or neglecting old versions, dropping [backwards compatibility](backwards_compatibility.md) (e.g. [Python](python.md)) or by downright forcing updates in code. This often manifests by a familiar pop-up message:
*"Your software is too old, please update to the latest version."*
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- It is [bullshit](bullshit.md) effort, **wasting human work and creating an intentionally high [maintenance](maintenance.md) cost**. Humans, both users and programmers, become slaves to the software.
- **The [security](security.md) justifications are lies**: a true concern for security would lead to unbloating and creating a minimal, stable and well tested software. Update culture in fact constantly pushes newly created vulnerabilities with the updates which are only better in not having been discovered yet, i.e. relying on **security by obscurity**. This creates an intentionally **endless cycle of creating something that will never be finished** (even if it well could be).
- **It kills freedom**. E.g. with the example of web the constant meaningless updates of JavaScript and addition of "features" eliminates any small competition that can't afford to keep up with the constantly changing environment. **This is why we have no good web browsers**.
- **It is painful for the user** while at the same time being unnecessary, i.e. it's plainly artificial discomfort forced on users. The user has to keep caring about his software like some kind of [tamagotchi](tamagotchi.md), becoming a slave to it.
- **It creates a mindset of not aiming to [finish](finished.md) anything** and normalizing this -- developers accept they release unfinished software, users accept they use unfinished software, society depends on technology that's not been finished, is buggy, unstable, randomly changing from one day to another etcetc.
- **It is actually a huge security risk** (yes, we don't really buy intro security but this still holds). The developer, whoever it is, has the power to remotely push and execute any code at any time to the devices of many users. In fact this can be seen as the definition of [backdoor](backdoor.md). This is not just an issue of [proprietary](proprietary.md) software, there have been many [FOSS](foss.md) projects pushing [malware](malware.md) this way (look up e.g. the projects that targeted malware at Russians during the Russia-Ukraine war).