Aren’t you talking about destroying livelihoods? Pushing people into poverty and/or homelessness? What is the benefit exactly?

If you use a tool to automate sending emails, unrelated to LLMs, in most scenarios the behaviour on the receiver is different.

- If I get a mass email from a company and it's signed off from the CEO, I don't think the CEO personally emailed me. They may glanced over it and approved it, maybe not even that but they didn't "send an email". At best, one might think that "the company" sent an email.

- I randomly send my wife cute stickers on Telegram as a sort of show that I'm thinking of her. If I setup a script to do that at random intervals and she finds out, from her point of view I "didn't send them" and she would be justifiably upset.

I know this might be a difficult concept for many people that browse this forum, but the end product/result is not always the point. There are many parts of our lives and society in general that the act of personally doing something is the entire point.

That's just the system we have, but slightly better and completely achievable.

They didn’t need to because they already had WinForms as a baseline experience for Windows UIs.

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> US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says [1]

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260228-us-israeli...

Unless you’re the type of person that actively considers them a fan of something and goes out of their way to consume a specific niche, there isn’t much reason to pay much, or anything for entertainment.

Haven’t you basically built your entire business on this singular proprietary platform they you have almost no control over?

You can just leave off the ultimatum and attempt to improve your situation by communicating it in a way that is directly actionable (I'd like to work on X instead of Y, can you arrange that?). You'll have your own internal deadlines of course, but you shouldn't communicate them.

I've had a lot of success in asking "are you asking me to do this or telling me", when I've been tasked with something I think is extremely dumb.

If the response is "I'm asking", then I will usually respond with some variation of "can you assign it to someone else, or better yet, throw the task in the garbage".

If the response is "I'm telling you", then I'll go on a spiel about how I think it's incredibly stupid and the people involved in this decision are bad at their jobs, then get on and do it.

But if you're reading this, there is a good chance you are American, so take this advice with a massive grain of salt as I'm not. The culture here in NZ sounds extremely different to almost everything I've read on this forum.

But as a developer this post is nonsense and extremely predictable [1]. We can expect countless others like it that explains how their use of these broken tools is different and just don't worry about it!

By their own linked Credits page there are 20 dependencies. Let's take one of those, electron, which itself has 3 dependencies according to npm. Picking one of those electron/get has 7 dependencies. One of those dependencies got, has 11 dependencies, one of those cacheable-request has 7 dependencies etc etc.

Now go back and pick another direct dependency of Obsidian and work your way down the dependency tree again. Does the Obsidian team review all these and who owns them? Do they trust each layer of the chain to pick up issues before it gets to them? Any one of these dependencies can be compromised. This is what it means to be. supply chain attack, you only have to quietly slip something into any one of these dependencies to have access to countless critical user data.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-...

I've recently (finally) managed to purge the last instance of Windows from my life when I replaced Windows on my gaming desktop with Linux. So I've got Linux on the (gaming) desktop, a Steam Deck and Debian stable on a server, which is great.

But I mean, that covers my home office? I still need a phone (iPhone), a smart watch (Apple Watch) and while not critical, certainly adds a lot of value for me. The things that connects to the TV (AppleTV) is the best of all I've tried when compared to any other type of solution (Firestick, Chrome Cast, Home Media Server, Built-in TV Smarts). I've also got an M4 MacBook for dev, which is frankly fantastic when compared to whatever other hardware I could get here in NZ and would involve going back to Windows anyway?

So I mean, what are the actual valid options really? Apple still offer great devices and the integrations between them are the best on the market imo.

Perhaps in a perfect world Pine64 devices would be rock solid and I could run Linux everywhere, but failing that, what else ya gunna do?

What mechanism are you suggesting where access to the production system doesn’t let you also access that secret?

Like I get in this specific case where you are running some untrusted code, that environment should have been isolated and these keys not passed in, but running untrusted code isn’t usually a common feature of most applications.

In a perfect world the creation of software would have been locked down like other engineering fields, with developers and companies suffering legal consequences for exposing customer information.