BoomerMoment

After further reading, yes I am wrong! Thanks

Since you've already ignored the obvious humour.

Break: interrupt (a sequence, course, or continuous state). "this broke the pattern of generations remaining in the place where they were born"

Innovative: (of a product, idea, etc.) featuring new methods; advanced and original. "innovative designs

Ever modified a product to implement a new original advanced method that didn't interrupt a single existing mechanism or structure?

If so, I wish I had your codebase!

Refer to your own link.

Doesn't this mean that a 3rd party tracking cookie is now a cryptographic proof that device A traversed sites X Y Z in session N?

Portability. A test to get the answer to "what the fuck am I running on and what does it support" is more portable and robust than thousands of "flavours" manually configured in /etc/whatamieven.conf

The author misses that the buildtime magic for the xz exploit is not in the m4 file but in an obfuscated, compressed, encrypted, binary disguised as a test file that alters the build process at multiple stages (configure and build)

A better argument can be made that the act of compiling a binary / obfuscating / minifying code instead of interpreting code directly is the fault.

All printers are inherently shit, some are simply manufactured more evil than others.

I agree, provided the software isn't network reliant / accessible.

If the software were to explicitly depend on <vulnerable library> and moving to <patched library> broke it that would be the nail in the coffin for me / make me question whether I want to spend the effort maintaining the project.

You mean a 64bit architecture literally cannot handle an 8bit instruction as its smallest register is 16bit without swapping modes?

This is an architectural problem not an OS constraint.

And they're completely correct to abandon this software in my honest opinion as the developers already have.

If you need this run a 32bit VM under the 64bit OS so the virtualised CPUs can handle the 16bit application.

Open software gets abandoned all the time, its not magically immune to this. Open and standardised file formats are the win.

This genuinely just reads like a bucket list of Mac user problems.

The author would genuinely benefit from redhats decade long support models provided his desired tooling works on Linux.

The real concerns are in the SaaS / Remote Resource / Online Activation Space.

eg software that won't wake up if it can't call home, software that has reduced or no functionality if it can't stream remote data, "apps" that are just webkits loading a pre-set url for a completely online service.