And not to put too fine a point on it, but Facebook is happy lighting billions of dollars on fire whenever their boy-king smokes another copy of an early Gibson novel. Every brocaded corpse in the Google Graveyard was entombed with the kind of wealth that would make a Pharaoh cringe. They've gained tectonic wealth from labour they got for free and for them to turn around and say, someone's dropped a cigarette in this tower we've built out of dry kindling, you owe us? No. Tap the sign.| mastodon.social
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...| GitLab
For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.| Musings about software