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  • lioness (stuff)lioness@plush.city
    Oct 21, 2026, 8:37 PM

    I wrote "begging people to care" but I don't think we're really even talking about individual people here — there's a ton of folks who *wish* they could care about more than keeping their lights on, but are too busy trying to survive in an actively hostile world. I get it. Do what you gotta do to conserve your ability to take action to defend yourself & yours.

    but the corporations who are happy to skimp on engineering & pass the costs onto the rest of us, cuz they keep getting paid? fuck them.

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  • lioness (stuff)lioness@plush.city
    Oct 21, 2026, 8:41 PM

    "skimp on engineering" doesn't just mean not hiring enough developer skill to keep up with bugs & vulnerabilities.

    it also means caring about & investing in developer expertise. companies basically don't do that, because they'd rather have their devs build some minimal viable-if-you-squint product and then *lay them off* and keep collecting rent on it.

    devs aren't stupid. if their employer thinks they'd expendable, why shouldn't they treat their work as expendable?

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