fivelessminutes

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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Web3 has certainly brought about a renaissance in craven astroturfing spam.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Over the years, the itch they were scratching tends to get fully scratched, people move on from their needs to other things. What was enjoyable, becomes grunt work, like making the full set of unit tests for features users want, but you don
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
'Leech' is the correct term for this relationship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_(computing) Contributors are not leeching the work. Users who don't contribute are though, especially when they su
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
There's a licencing 'race to the bottom'. If there is a liberally-licensed alternative, resources will divert to that.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
The original reason may not be invalidated. But as a continuous activity, over years, what exactly is in it for maintainers to get up in the morning and trade their remaining lease on life for value to be consumed by rich leeches?
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Screenscrape of register article https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/18/us_huawei_malware/ Itself a summary of a (detailed) Bloomberg article https://archive.md/weINX
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> We do not know the direction in which freenode will go moving forward. I think digg is instructive.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Sounds like the reviewer realized he enjoys exercising power over others and feeling respected, and that metastatized into pedantry.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
'Brain-controlled weaponry' seems more likely.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
If you want endless unmaintained security apocalyse -ware at all levels of your organization, just keep using FOSS dependencies while explaining to yourself you don't have to contribute anything back. "Look around and notice how t
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> pay for every No... projects want contribution more than money, the idea of paying the author is that they can then continue to contribute in the long term by proxy for the payers. But FOSS-systemwide, I give much more than I take. It
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> library had a bug That was exploited since April https://github.com/nice0e3/log4j_POC ... this 'bug' is RCE on the logging infrastructure. > Can you explain why you think the majority of authors/
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
FOSS programmers owe you nothing, please read the license. You can keep dreaming otherwise and enjoy a steady stream of security problems from your leeching.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
It has certainly 'worked great' for leeches, if you ignore bombs like this logging bug destroying Western civilization. Can you explain a bit more how it worked great for the bulk of maintainers / authors who don't see a
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Yes 'free' means 'the little people work on that'. There's no real way to secure finegrained node.js or python etc deps, since you have no clue if the original author who signs his sources should be trusted, or was
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Wouldn't this be a lot more meaningful if they were committing to get these drivers upstream?
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
This is the internet, people make claims out of nothing all the time, so they can win internet points. > Webkit Yes, commercial open source projects exist. Parent and you say 'most'. Github says it has 200M projects on it, do
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> Most Go ahead and prove that.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
From Oct 26 2021
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
It need not mean your own cloud services, although I think the longterm trend is residential routers plus a USB stick will make this more possible. Eg, he doesn't have to make access to all his music so it is contingent on his one cred
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
I was waiting for the realization that he couldn't go on shoving money at these guys, and needed to increase his self-sufficiency by selfhosting to keep his data out of their or anybody else's walled garden. But he did not seem to
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Consider getting a cat? They can be another 'person' sharing your life and a physical comfort.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> Someone working two jobs to support a family has little free time for open source development Yeah, so because of that they don't 'select' themselves to contribute to FOSS. If they don't have a PC, or can't pr
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> I'm not sure if you read the article > As the author states in a comment Ie, not in the article. Can you elaborate on how that paper 'tells me' my own lived experience the last 20 years maintaining FOSS projects and o
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
> This lack of diversity is unacceptable. Open source contributors self-select. They have to put time in, usually for $0 and often without thanks. I don't know of any FOSS project who asks, or cares, about race or sex or anything
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009,
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Modern compilers will warn on unannotated case fallthru, so no need for this. It's just another reason to use -Werror so you cannot miss warnings.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Doesn't this punish maintainers who do a good job for free, by excluding them from funding? I think you have to look one step deeper at how to deploy resources to encourage the system sustainably, not just throw money at the dead and d
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
If they're 'not maintained' there is nobody to give the 'public money' to.
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by fivelessminutes 5y ago
Take care about your grooming, clean nails, trimmed eyebrows, clean and fresh clothes. Most people can talk easily about themselves, so if she doesn't have anything to fill a silence, general, open questions like, 'so, where did y

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