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But then if a child succeeds despite whatever failure his father was he is stuck with that looser name.

There have historically been also ways where poor stopped rich from being rich and having fancy name was making one a target.

Fun part is that no one can stop poor people from imitating rich ones, so they do. Then rich ones start coming up with other ways to show to the others that they’re rich and poor copy over and over again.

I used rich as shorthand placeholder of blue blood, noble, famous and rich. Not everyone who is rich is noble and noble doesn’t mean they are rich.

Family legacy is quite obsolete in modern society.

Not every society wants to be modern.

Modern society cuts family ties which is a lot of times not so great, but on the other hand it saves lots of people from abusive relationships.

Once you can leave abusive parents or siblings, whole world of opportunities opens. Then again on the other hand not everyone can deal with such a freedom.

Yet still I am personally supportive of modern approaches where people can choose their destiny and not being tied to a family legacy.

Most of what you wrote is exactly the same as having internal team working on system for you.

You might not have per-seat pricing but still all the feature negotiations with product owner, all the salary negotiations with developers - oh wait nowadays we have AI providers that will hike token prices ;)

Fallacy applies only to incidental breaking of glass like child smashing window paying football.

Protecting yourself from bad actors also doesn't create wealth but it protects wealth you already have.

You know cybercrime and APT groups are not bored kids in their parents basement, there are groups that are running automated tooling to find vulnerable companies and if possible take all their wealth.

Just look at Binance of course, but if you are small company there are also people targeting those especially with AI assistance nowadays.

This why we pay cybersecurity folks, developers and business people are often living in a fantasy land where people don’t steal bikes because it is illegal to do so.

Then they have a pikachu face when someone smashes their car window to steal something worth $50 they left on front seat because “who would do that?”.

What is even better thief will most likely pawn this for $10 but for him it is effortless $10.

To expand on that, yes bunch of people believe they pay for buttons, text boxes so features and UI.

Completely forgetting, security updates with regression testing , backups, data structuring, performance engineering.

On the Internet I see all the time people who are building equivalents of bike sheds criticizing people who are building skyscrapers.

Your first sentence is telling me you were in more of a bike shedding projects than skyscraper one.

What is the biggest app that you have built?

> The Pokémon app is small and doesn’t represent a large, complex real-world application.

If you aim to make small apps that don’t represent complex real-world applications you should not use Angular.

But blanket statements like yours are what I hate the most in software industry.

Wearing jacket indoors is not a problem if your building is built like that.

I live in well insulated house. Big problem is moisture management if I don’t keep indoors fairly warm I will get walls wet especially in bathroom.

Heating up just bathroom is hard as outside is well insulated but then internal air flow cannot be blocked.

It is also not that great in the summer when it is hot outside. Cooking or any bigger screen will heat up inside of the house. But then opening windows might not help when it is high heat.

Well as I got older I understood that what anarchy-libertarians are saying is not what they think.

When I was younger I thought they really are against hierarchy and that society should be equal in all aspects.

But as it turns out, they are against current hierarchy as they don’t have much to say in this setup. But once they would get to be “in” and calling shots that’s where their world views change.

You are mixing stuff up.

Floodgates were already open somewhere in August 2025 around that time we got Sha1-Hulud and phishing of NPM contributors. Those supply chain attacks were happening all the time since then in smaller and bigger amounts.

Other thing was Mythos, project Glasswing and start of really AI assisted vulnerability research. This on the other hand gave us plenty of new CVE to patch. If some project had in June 2025 0-3 new vulnerabilities, June 2026 it had 13-18.

It is just a rollercoaster in cybersecurity last 2 years already. But Hugging face incident is IMO not that noteworthy if you tried doing any task with AI agent on your own.

You are going to provide me with a budget for that solution?

Easy to drop a sentence in a discussion. Harder to implement.

I guess like that: “we are Microsoft, 95% of your things runs on us, you want to stick to the rules? - OK that’s additional 10% on each and every license you have with us. You are still here or are we done?”

I think you want to replace fresh vegetables and fruits with processed ready meals.

Being available is not equal to a person being able to afford it.

Maybe you were writing about middle class and not the poor?

Humans murdered all megafauna quite effectively. If there were any I guess humans and their cousins ate them.

Going with this idea further basically all data goes via Microsoft one way or another.

They just started updating the UI and I am pissed off.

I don’t want them to change UI. I have plenty of work to do and have plenty of other tools that I use daily.

I have my workflows, I am swamped with work and now I have to change my workflows because someone changed options in UI where ones that O used are not there anymore.

Atlassian migrated EU data to EU based servers. I still had to click approve but they did that for me.

For me problem is that people don’t understand that there are different levels of expertise.

Like if you can write an SQL query, you know difference between DDL, DQL, DML you are already an expert compared to average people.

Of course knowing that doesn’t make one database expert as you might not know how indexes work under the hood and might not know how to maintain a database.

Picking and mixing right levels of expertise is also hard because you never know what’s the next job will be.

I am not going to make up 3 things but it meaningfully replaced Google search that became unusable crap.

Downside is that OpenAI is already having ads on their chat interface, so I guess it will be crap any time soon.

I absolutely see all the crap devs who work on 5 tasks at once create.

Basically I try to explain to them they are not paid by amount of tasks they pick up but amount of tasks that are DONE and DONE doesn't mean "yeah it kind of works, I don't have time to fix details because I have 10 other tasks".

Super annoying, yeah we can make follow up fixes - but that's more work not less and if all would be done right just now topic would be closed.

Well no, I don’t think you can install anything that generates power without registering.

I remember in past people would make small wind turbines for their own use and would get fined in Europe. Because they expect you to sell the electricity and then buy it back - like you can’t use it directly as far as I remember, without paying taxes and stuff.

Banking apps are not “websites” by coincidence they happen to be apps using same technology to show the interface but there is huge difference between website and web app.

This distinction is important especially because people are notoriously confusing the two and expect web apps to be like websites and conversely implement websites with tech that is supposed to be used to build web applications bloating internet pipes with JS where HTML and CSS would be sufficient.

Don’t forget we don’t live in a pacifist utopia. Companies don’t work on the same ideas just because they think they can make it better.

Companies work on the same ideas because they want to own IP, data etc. and then charge money.

The other way around they work on the same ideas not to be charged by others and control their business.

“software industry” is not some big happy hippie family. Patent wars, browser wars, OS wars - well we get a lot of open source for free but that’s not the norm.

Everyone thinks that system is outdated. I don’t think we have any cybersecurity professionals claiming otherwise.

It is in use just because it already is there and to make something new will be tough.

I think we should drop the score entirely. Just give me details and I should be able to make my risk management based on if it is RCE is it local or just info disclosure etc.

Global scoring is something that feels right but in practice it is totally wrong. Biggest damage happens when management that doesn’t understand any of that wants to have excel sheets green.

Not new normal.

It already is a thing since I believe April as I follow cybersec.

Last year May, June, July counts of sec bulbs was order of magnitude lower than this year.

But idea is that it will not last forever. New code will be vuln checked by AI as well. So now we are in transition period that is awful but it won’t last.

Funny how 5yo needs sanding down, 15yo you need power tools like grinder, 30yo needs explosives to take ego down like major life event, death of close one or their own close call.