I'd assume we can rent one in this era of renting.. everything.

I really liked fly at first and still have some stuff running (still falling within free credits).

I was so excited for Sprites but I guess, I was not in the target audience because:

Sprites -- Stateful sandbox environments

Without SSH?

There were workarounds, yes.

I assumed they are the same :-O

> There are so many great and useful things it can and will do to improve humanity.

Caveat: Only if it also produces shareholder value

> Engineers who care about such things, often engage in acts of "benevolent noncompliance". Common workarounds are "asking for forgiveness instead of permission", secrecy, and misdirection.

Without the support of a unified vision, these good intentions could pave the path to hell by the way.

Hold on just a sec. Will do after throwing everything at the AI wave.

Drum it out loud.

Some organizations are stuck in proverbial cobwebs of security blankets.

Those who dictate what security should be have no skin in the game, the end result is just stupid.

My pet hate when I still worked was "defence in depth". I witnessed this term being thrown around to the point it was only an excuse.

A lot of box ticking paper pushers in the space, somehow making the scene a clown show.

I was hoping you saw the nice end of it, with a feint smile on my face.

Very rude ending!

PS: I laughed outside. Cried inside.

Obligatory reference to "Software as theory building" by Peter Naur.

They are trying I guess: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overf...