I really like the framing of legacy code as "money making code".
Presumably if it wasn't making money (possibly indirectly), it would have been deleted!
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Is there any way to filter out toots that aren't in languages you understand?
I see translation offered on some toots, so presumably there's at least some language detection.
Shower thought: presumably keyword length affects naming habits? Are programmers more willing to write verboseFunctionName if the keyword is `fn` rather than `function`?
Remotely bricking satellite modems as part of (presumably) nation state hostilities: https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/satcom-terminals-under-attack-in-europe.html
If over-the-air update systems aren't receiving regular patches, maybe it would be better for industry to use hardware that can't be reflashed remotely?