I don’t disagree, but this ignores some of what we have learned about critical masses and network effects. If everyone can just take their own copy with no interaction, many won’t join the community and it may never reach a critical mass despite and because of its openness.

Of course, but any of those people making a copy of the code can be the ones to decide to build a community around it.

Fabrice Bellard doesn't need to personally administer to the ongoing development and community functions of QEMU or ffmpeg, it is sufficient that he released the code as open source, and others carry the torch from there.

And if people disagree about the form those communities take, they can split them as they see fit. As happened with libav and ffmpeg for a number of years. This too is fine, and is only possible because of the license.

People blame AI and/or the culture there, but IMO competition got it. As more and more code went to public domains (i.e., mostly GitHub), it became just as quick and often better to go to the source itself.

Two types of bankruptcy in the U.S.: liquidation and reorganization. The latter lets a company reshuffle assets and debt and schedule new payment plans to continue to exist as a going concern. It often wipes out shareholders.

> Certainly the previous generations had more kids, and probably spent less time actively parenting them.

Yes but those kids weren't at real risk of having their minds completely subverted by for-profit organizations.

Due respect, neither of those make sense. PHP is boring software, and this website routinely suggests (1) use it if it is fit for purpose and (2) don't rewrite for the sake of it. For most sites, the engineering effort to have a static backup of their dynamic website (say, generated by Wordpress or Drupal) just isn't possible. They just need to power down and patch.

[EDIT: I see I may have erroneously extended your criticism to sites other than NCSC, for which it does make sense. I would still defend using PHP.]

Why would you use boring tech to dynamically create sites that are inherently static?

Because websites with news, continuously updated advice, job openings, etc aren't all that static? This type of site hugely benefits from having a easily understandable CMS that you can teach to more or less everyone in 2 days or less. I suffered through a few of those back in my time in the military, where an instructor would teach a class of 20-30 how to build new pages in the CMS

Now are there more powerful tools out there that result in more scalable websites? Sure. My personal sites are built around static site generators for that exact reason. But none of better tools are as easy to understand for non-programmers as wordpress or one of the other click-and-drag CMS tools.

But do those tools have to be directly exposed to the web at the same place the content is being hosted?

That you want your content to be readable from everyone doesn’t mean you want the admin interface to be available globally.

Seems like even the EOL versions should get a patch for something like this.

But what would be the point of declaring something "EOL" then?

I agree with the thought, but sometimes things are so bad that it's worth an exception.

This looks like one of those things.

PHP don't support it and likely won't patch it (even though this is probably big enough that they should), it's up to your distribution whether or not they will.

They will if you use a supported OS.

Eh, not sure I agree here.

> It can seat four members of Anthropic’s seven-member board, and dismiss them without cause.

Good luck without a risk factor and description of that thing in the prospectus the first time that authority is invoked on a public company.

Similar language is in spacex's IPO but with musk setting the agenda and not shareholders and it flew just fine.

Market seems to tolerate bullshit better than I expected

Cannot just transplant one company's situation to another. Market tolerated Musk because its Musk. Musk has several unique qualities:

- He has track record of making bets in the past and payoff.

- He is way better at working in hardware space than software. His ai data center built out is very fast.

- He is similar to Zuck that he would pivot fast towards whatever is making money. The llm bet might not pan out as good as he thought, but he quickly transitioned into a compute seller

- He is very good at financial engineering. This is an often overlooked quality of musk. His spacex ipoed at the best time and beat both anthropic/openai to the market. Now the other 2 are trapped in the current financial situation.

One more: he is literally the richest man in the world

Yeah, over time owning stocks in public companies seems to have meant less and less in concrete terms while the prices have kept going higher.

Sorry, when you say similar language, do you mean it's disclosed? That's all I was responding to. This isn't my area, but I practiced securities law for 10 years and to me an arrangement affecting governance like this would need to be disclosed under 10(b)-5.

If not now for the IPO, why would they be compelled by investors to do it later as you imply?

Trusts are not a new mechanism.

Oh, no i'm just saying that's the trigger when you get sued

Well let’s see if that happens before IPO. I don’t think it will.

What? No. i'm saying if they IPO without disclosing this, they are going to be sued when/if that authority is invoked by people who bought it at the IPO without know about this.

The governing trust is already public, how else would the journalists know about it? It is disclosed in their IPO docs for investors:

https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/19/can-anthropics-sh...

So no, investors cannot sue after the IPO claiming they didn't know about it.

The thing that isn't disclosed is the exact rules of the trust etc, but why are they obliged to disclose that?

Personally I think this is a big distraction from the actual risks they face - their models will soon be commoditised by other big players who are not selling a model and their scaffold around that is vibe-code crap with a leaked codebase that changes 30k times a day because they have no idea what they're doing.

Yep.

The worst part about this is that if you aren't watching it, the AI will "solve" this with a thousand assert_3_plus_5_equals_8() test cases that just further clutter the workspace and the context window. Churn baby churn.

I haven't had this issue since like last year with frontier models. What are you using?

All the models do this. I'm literally right now watching Opus 5.5 duplicating code even after telling it to fix duplication.

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Is your brain so fried you can't even read 3 consecutive sentences?

> am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration.

Ripe for optimization against maintainability, of course, but yeah it would seem to matter if that generalizes.