perhaps my de-corporatization is now truly complete, if it was ever there in the first place, but now I just feel sorry for people that choose to put together sentences like "capture insights from your favorite podcast!" when marketing their thing ultra-cringe

‘Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.’

tonsky.me

Needy programs

We used to use software; now software started to use us

interesting I think I am team ffmpeg on this one https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/