jaggirs 5 days ago

Why would that make it any less insightfull?

  • hu3 5 days ago

    Because bias and incentives matter.

    There's a reason disclosures are obligatory in academic papers.

    • baq 5 days ago

      It’s published on gitlab.com, not arxiv

      • rockskon 5 days ago

        It's almost like the speakers are motivated by advertising a product to solve a problem in their own garden.

    • serial_dev 5 days ago

      They pulled a little sneaky on ya, mentioning GitLab security features available to GitLab users in a GitLab Security blog post with GitLab logos everywhere.

      Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I start to think these people might be affiliated with GitLab.

      • TeMPOraL 5 days ago

        It's more like, you don't know where honest technical evaluation ends, and an ad starts.

  • Aeolun 5 days ago

    It didn’t make it less insightful, but it recontextualized what was, in hindsight, a pretty strong bias towards fearmongering.

norman784 5 days ago

You are not the target then, but people using Gitlab might find insightful.