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Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

reverse engineering and decompilation, is basically just refactoring on ultra hard mode or conversely, refactoring is just reverse engineering your own code, figuring out what it's actually doing and making clearer names and such.

thinkin about the category of "eBay Product Photos Taken Under Conditions That Would Get Someone Fired If Taken During The Time Period When That Product Was Current" this was a $7000 CPU at launch. now it is: $60. sure put it on the bath mat

a Xeon 8156 CPU resting on a bath towel or something, contacts-down

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports: