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.
Because bias and incentives matter.
There's a reason disclosures are obligatory in academic papers.
It’s published on gitlab.com, not arxiv
It's almost like the speakers are motivated by advertising a product to solve a problem in their own garden.
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.
It's more like, you don't know where honest technical evaluation ends, and an ad starts.
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It didn’t make it less insightful, but it recontextualized what was, in hindsight, a pretty strong bias towards fearmongering.