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Most people don’t want cloud hosted subscription software, we do it that way because VCs love vendor lock in and recurring revenue. Old school desktop software
by m_ke 2y ago
Most people don’t want cloud hosted subscription software, we do it that way because VCs love vendor lock in and recurring revenue.
Old school desktop software takes very little maintenance. Once you get rid of user tracking, AB testing, monitoring, CICD pipelines, microservices, SOC, multi tenant distributed databases, network calls and all the other crap things get pretty simple.
- raincole 2y agoThere was a vulnerability of 7-zip found in Nov, 2024. Yes, 7-zip. https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024-118/ https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024...
- m_ke 2y ago1. If everyone is running custom written software that's not shared with anyone else if will be really hard to find vulnerabilities in them 2. I'm sure LLMs are already way better at detecting vulnerabilities than the average engineer. (when asked to do so explicitly)