[rland]

> While the Linux open source operating spans 15 million lines of code across 40,000 software files, Google engineers modify 15 million lines of code across 250,000 files each week.

Depressing. Can you imagine the utility to the world if all of this activity weren't being focused on selling ads?

[fnordpiglet]

To be fair they primarily offer services that attract people to their ads and a lot of those services are highly useful and generally beneficial. That said, yes, I wish they had found some other way to monetize and support their services that wasn’t so useless, annoying, and privacy invasive