i mean. what better use of your time do you REALLY have besides spending an afternoon in the sunshine with a bunch of nerds watching cool birds fly around?
reading about falconry and they encourage people to go out to meets and picnics, so if you don't want to become a falconer but think it'd be cool to hang out with a bunch of people who are (this describes me), look up the falconer association in your state maybe?
imagine if i had the disposition to still want to do anything if it turns 'monetizable'
imagine if any of my skills were monetizable
even if you accept "security" as the actual reason, why would you assume that any company prioritizing speed over care won't cut corners in other places as well?
lol im sure if more companies end up switching to closed source, it'll have nothing to do with how embarrassingly ass most AI coding is (and the fact that checking for the vulnerabilities that ass code introduces would defeat the whole point of switching to AI in the first place)
i do think sometimes that showing examples of older branded objects can be really clarifying for people— brands have become divorced from their original purpose (at least in part intentionally), and sometimes seeing the difference in quality can make a person realize that it’s not just them, but rather an actual drop in quality
on the one hand, adding a bunch of branding to my server feels counterproductive
on the other hand, i get a sort of perverse glee out of seizing and using the branding of something without using the service it's from-- like i've seized that brand from its owners for my own purposes
anyway i don't think most people are paying enough attention to notice, and it'll have to get REALLY bad for anyone who actually makes the decisions at most companies to stop getting distracted by all the shiny marketing talk, but meanwhile that technical debt is just climbing climbing climbing in the background...
