That might be the case. But more often than not it’s WAY too easy to see that a decision is bad to argue that we can’t implement any measures against that.

In this case we “just” need laws that prohibit that any infrastructure can be dependent on few foreign entities and had to be completely independent if reasonably possible. Diversification or elimination of dependencies as a law.

You can’t rely on foreign proprietary software like Teams for public facilities and infrastructure if there are reasonable alternatives.

You can’t rely only on Russian oil if other countries are available for trade.

We should start making laws and frameworks that prevent us from making bad decisions in the future. Using Microsoft and their products was always a bad decision and fixing that now is way more expensive than whatever the arguments were against Linux and FOSS software in the last two decades. It was just easy and convenient at the time.

Being dependent on Russia for oil didn’t turn out great either.

But I just see people talking about how to change things for the better, never how to prevent silly things in the future. I’d rather be in a situation were we don’t have to fix things.

But it’s 2⁵² addresses for each star in the observable universe. Or in other words, if every star in the observable universe has a planet in the habitable zone, each of them got 2²⁰ more IPs than there are IPv4 addresses.

“How a shitty company with an even shittier codebase full of bad design decisions uses AI” isn’t going to get me hooked on using AI.

Why would I need AI for that? We should really stop trying to slap AI on everything. Also no, I’m not that big of a fan of wasting energy on web crawlers.

But if your tool chain is worth anything the size of each binary shouldn’t be bigger. To oversimplify things a bit: it’s just #ifdefs and a proper tool chain.

In the web development world on the other hand everything was always awful. Every nodejs package has half the world as dependencies…