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by jfalcon 1524 days ago
Notes for those pushing forward - the last working wayback machine snapshot before he FFR'ed the website and let the blue smoke out of his fight:

http://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www.badmod...

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I feel bad for him. Fighting for good security or even a better product shouldn't cost people years of their lives but as long as it doesn't come at the expense of the product's bottom line, there is little reason to compel change as it doesn't impact the bottom line which is what decides whether something is made for most big corporate outputs.

The same argument could be said about "Tech Debt" or non-UL labeled products and a myriad of other causes.

Zero fucks will be paid to anything not socially cool even if it is the responsible thing to do.

That's why we live in the world we live in now.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the world is crap. But for the most part, it takes that "title" just to have a microphone loud enough to move the needle.

This little part of life is what I'm currently struggling with in my post-Covid decision making.