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Glyph@glyph@mastodon.social (2026-09-28 05:43:35)
The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to disclaim liability for defective products in ways that every other industry just absolutely cannot.