But the question remains: should software be more treated as engineering, especially as more and more even small faults can have huge security implications? Shouldn't we more aspire to proper engineering practices?

But on the other side, equipping data centers was never Apples main business. Their approach to markets is to design products for the individuals. They also usually have very long time plans. Look at where the Apple Silicon today is and how long a path it took. What about the day, where at least a medium sized Mac becomes a great platform for running large models locally? Very easy to use, no setup, no privacy concerns. Also never worry about "tokens". You can then use AI as you use other local resources of the hardware you own today.

In Europe, a lot of supermarkets were hit by a remote exploit which allowed attackers to switch off cooling of food. A blood bank in France was attacked the same way.

So how would building software for important or even safety-relvant systems not be considered "engineering"?

Especially, as faulty software might not only cause a product or device to fail in a dangerous manner, faulty software in this day and age often makes it possibly to remotely attack the faulty product.

But also every developer has a responsibility. At least not to promote any technology which is part of the problem.

- it needs to be properly announced to all eligible voters

- be declared as binding, you can't tell people it isn't a vote and later on declare it is

- the platform for voting needs to work

It is a misconception, that "noon" is the middle point of your awake time. That was never the case. Our day usage most of the time is asymmetric: start the day and especially the work with the sunlight, spend the evening time off after work after sun set.

Using the high point of the sun as the reference for the daytime is a very practical choice, as this is the one easily observable time point which doesn't move much over the course of the year (a few minutes, but that is symmetric).

In my personal opinion, the only reasonable decision would be to permanently return to the standard time before the introduction of DST. Because otherwise the whole European timezone would have to be redesigned.