| The "boringification" of computers will bring us back to the 70s. If we have to prove _everything_ on your computer, from your calculator or Pokemon, how much do you think a license of windows will cost? $250,000? Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Minix will be dead (no one to sponsor certification and then put it in the public). Crazy "best-practices" (change passwords every couple days, password must include symbols, letters, numbers, upper-case and lower-case in a random order, but be no shorter or longer than eight characters) Must have a full team of lawyers to prove that everything done fit the letter of the law, and that any hacks are not your responsibility "Shinyness" is what allows you to have free VSCode and Atom. Sure, I miss the 70s when you could get a text editor measured in bytes (but, btw, electron is probably more secure than 70s unix) but I definitely like the cost/convenience of modern software. |