Andrew Kelley exposes Bitrot (planned software obsolescence); wasted programmer hours, decaying Discord, untameable LLM monsters creating software churn for decades to come; how LLMs and Blockchains are are designed for wasted effort and that sneaky Peak dishwasher syndrome.
And for those of us who need them, clarifications of the acronyms used in the article:
EULA – End-user license agreement. A legal contract between a software company and a customer that users ignore click “Agree” without understanding what they're agreeing to.
DRM - Digital Rights Management is software uses encryption in addition to other techniques to ensure that other restriction measures cannot be bypassed by modifying software. Designed to protect copyrighted material such as movies, music, books, shows, games, and other digital assets. DRM prevents users from copying, redistributing, or converting content in a way that is not explicitly authorized by the content provider.