Replying again to say: that actually makes sense. You should have said that upfront! Suddenly being locked out of critical software is definitely a risk worth considering

Why?

It’s more about scale. Small open source projects might get one PR a month. Your average tech company is dealing with dozens of PR every single day. Review fatigue is real in these environments

nothing purrsonal kit

That sounds hard and discord already has my retinal scans

I just wanna chat over the internet using some sort of relay. If only there were a solution.

Yes you’re correct, this was the point I was making.

To elaborate: could be 100s of times in a codebase, even 1000s, being executed in tests on local machines and build servers 100s of times a day, etc. etc.

rand will be called every time true is used, which could be hundreds of times for all we know

Files have formats. Anything “hidden” here is destroyed by conversion to a different font format before redistribution.

There is no way of controlling this from the authors side without some sort of DRM.

Isn’t this easily bypassed by modifying the “hidden” part

Which part of that isn’t true

Ad based search engines make almost $300 a year off their users

What disingenuous phrasing.

I’d be up for using a product like this, but their popcorn pricing and snark is really off-putting, so I’ll never be using this service.

Yes the markets love stagnation. I bet the investors who bought during the pandemic are thrilled!

Lay offs must be the start of the journey, right?

This is exactly what I expected. Lay offs and return to work policies are smoke and mirrors for managers trying to steady a sinking ship.

Alternative headline: Company in death throes tries anything to survive including cutting off own head

The UK government have already shown they are categorically incapable of enacting any of their tech laws. The flaw is always in the premise and when you trace it back to the source you’ll find only incredulous luddites and Teresa May bulk buying chastity belts.

I use butterflies

While someone who hasn’t can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context.

My guy, this is literally the problem I was describing in the root comment - they don’t guess the rest from context, they just continue using it incorrectly and subvert the point of having the word entirely. if you want to call something shit you can say something like this: “this product is getting shittier”.

Yeah I agree. I suspect he didn’t know the article would blow up as much as it did

Typically not = not for poor people