fun read if you want to get sad about IT security and monopolies:
"This is the American story of the past four decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car
@clifff Thus has been my life the last 2 years. Inherited ownership of an ancient system and all the interest on tech debt coming due.