The title is the opposite of click bait, it repels potential readers with its apparent obviousness. The article itself is actually interesting, it's an argument against learning from bad examples. Perhaps a better title might have been:

  Bad Opsec Considered Harmful for Learning Good Opsec

I was like "wow, I haven't seen a considered harmful article in a while, the quiet must be ancient", the I saw the author and it made sense.

When he says something, it's usually worth a listen.

Same here. Up-thread someone said the upgrade was flawless. I'm crossing my fingers.

Quicklisp still doesn't support HTTPS, which is apparently also necessary to do signature check.

Use HTTPS instead of HTTP - https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167

The more you talk, the more you're proving their point.

> DHH is free to describe his proprietary software as Open Source, a form of greenwashing, and even though he wants to “Well akshually” denigrate those saying why this is BS, we as free citizens are free to explain why, despite how fast he talks and confident he sounds, he’s not always right.

“For seven weeks, our blind monkeys hardly slept, banging away at the typewriter in an inspired rush to produce the best prompts for the next McDonald's ad."

Education: "Faculty grew too powerful and too romantic about their role in society. Students are our customers."

Corporations: "Workers grew too powerful and too romantic about their role in society. Customers are our customers."

Government: "Citizens grew too powerful and too romantic about their role in society. Corporations are our customers."

I think you are validating her romanticism argument. Money is not romantic but it drives a lot of the decision making.

> in the C "standard"

Oof, those passive-aggressive quotes were probably deserved at the time.

It's still not really wrong though. The C standard is just the minimal common feature set guaranteed by different C compilers, and even then there are significant differences between how those compilers implement the standard (e.g. the new C23 auto behaves differently between gcc and clang - and that's fully sanctioned by the C standard).

The actually interesting stuff happens outside the standard in vendor-specific language extensions (like the clang extended vector extension).

Off topic but if you're the author of sokol, I'm so thankful because it led to my re-learning the C language in the most enjoyable way. Started to learn Zig these days and I see you're active in the community too. Not sure if it's just me but I feel like there's a renaissance of old-school C, the language but more the mentality of minimalism in computing that Zig also embodies.

Yes it's a me :D Thanks for the kind words. And yeah, Zig is pretty cool too.

Their new CEO fired (sorry "laid off") long-time loyal staff and kicked out the original founders, then described it as "a fond farewell to some colleagues". Complete sociopath.

I enjoyed many of their articles but it's a different company now, wearing the face mask of the old name. I will never read any new stuff from the company.

Curious to see what the original founders may start next.

"Compute? Think with own brain? Our servants do that for us."