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Yes, but this assumes that the people involved are the everyday finance idiots who think that excel is the tool of choice for automation.

• LinuxBender 4y ago
  Yes, but this assumes that the people involved are the everyday finance idiots who think that excel is the tool of choice for automation. There is truth in this but what I am referring to is happening with principal and senior developers and orgs that would never touch excel. In fact Microsoft products are forbidden by contract in the production datacenters I have worked with in the last couple of decades. It's hard to see nefarious behavior when it depends on thousands of pieces of automation and frameworks that are poorly glued together. It's even happening albeit slowly in my favorite operating system that has no shortage of incredibly intelligent and talented developers. Ironically these folks won't see it because they did not experience all the vulnerable frameworks and bandages that Windows implemented early on and now history is rhyming with udev + systemd + debugfs + binfmt + firewalld + ebpf glued together but that is a long topic in and of itself. Another related topic could be vehicle automation and inter-connectivity. I am intrigued and curious to see how that one plays out.
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