Some HNers already mentioned that the internet has not been a safe haven for a long time. All these vulnerability scanners and parsers were pinging my localhost servers even in mid 2k. It has just become worse, and even OSS and usually captcha-free places are installing things like Anubis [1].
All of this reminds me of some of Gibson's short stories I read recently and his description of Cyberspace: small corporate islands of protected networks in a hostile sea of sapient AIs ready to burn your brain.
Luckily, LLMs are not there yet, except you can still get your brain burnt from AI slop or polarizing short videos.
Russia is a one way step ahead here, with mandatory pre-installed apps, full-scale internet censorship (still catching up with China, though), mandatory DPI, etc.
It's a fair note about tooling in general, I started with the code editing because it's the first thing before you can taste and judge the rest.
I think my frustration comes from the fact that in most other ecosystem I can use the tools I like, but in Java I have to use things like Intellij.
Intellij CE may be open source, but it is entirely owned by a private business whose primary goal is to sell their product - which affects how well are the integrated, open to accept community feedback, etc.
Mind sharing why do you consider Java tooling to be good (and largely, what is good here)?
The reason I ask is that I recently had to join a Java project at my company, and having a background in Node/Rust/Perl/Lua and some C++, I found the Java tooling to be extremely unsuitable for my taste.
A simple example: there is no standard LSP server, and the amount of jumps required to have a working setup with FOSS tools and make it IDE-independent is just horrendous. In every other ecosystem I've worked with so far, it was pretty easy in the last 5 years: if you don't like IDEs, you can keep using your vim/emacs/helix or whatever and just embed a plugin or two, with LSP integrated -- and you're ready to go.
Java world felt complete the opposite, like you had to use/buy some commercial tools to start doing something.
All of this reminds me of some of Gibson's short stories I read recently and his description of Cyberspace: small corporate islands of protected networks in a hostile sea of sapient AIs ready to burn your brain.
Luckily, LLMs are not there yet, except you can still get your brain burnt from AI slop or polarizing short videos.
[1] - https://anubis.techaro.lol/