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by smashah 3y ago
> Saying now that it's only the fault of its users Who said that? Nobody should be punished for internet piracy.
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by smashah 3y ago
My point is to say where does it end? What about the devs of BitTorrent/uTorrent? "Everybody knows that these two programs are mostly used for piracy". How about the whole p2p concept? "Everybody knows p2p means pirate 2
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by smashah 3y ago
If they can argue that because mega upload can be used for copyright infringement so people need to go to jail then so do the devs of ytdl, WeTransfer, YouTube, Google drive/chrome, etc. etc. etc.
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by smashah 3y ago
People rally for individuals being targeted. If governments or shills don't want normal people to rally for individuals like KDC/Assange/Snowden/Winner/Manning then don't go after them. Hope that clears up your
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by smashah 3y ago
Ok great now let's do prohibition of anti-consumer, anti-innovation, anti-competitive clauses in Terms of Service/EULAs.
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by smashah 3y ago
> ...NPM since those can differ from source code on Github. True. How about people act their threat model? Instead of removing a feature for many users, just do whatever you need to do to be sure you're safe yourself? In what other
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by smashah 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, a great PM is a godsend but few and far between. Unfortunately, a bad PM has a big negative impact to a team. > The problem just gets worse when you hire fresh grads or people with 1-2 years of consulting experie
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by smashah 3y ago
"any chance"??? I can't square this circle of someone being paranoid about postinstall script but at the same time thinks the first chance to review dependency code is after doing a `npm i`. Check the git repo of the library
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by smashah 3y ago
Malicious unchecked code in postinstall can just be moved to runtime so blanket blocking postinstall is as effective a solution to supply chain attacks as the solution of blocking npm packages with the word "keygen" in them is to
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by smashah 3y ago
The Big Con[0] book touches on this subject. Essentially, non technical people who want to insert themselves into technical projects account for many of the new PMs we see, at least in consulting, nowadays. [0] https://marianamaz
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by smashah 3y ago
This reminds me of the supply chain attack experts who's only solution seems to be blocking postinstall scripts.
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by smashah 3y ago
> Pixelfed has no contract with Meta As a victim of Meta's Cease and Desists for open-wa, the contract terms is in the Terms of Service that anyone associated with Pixelfed, or anyone associated with the development of Pixelfed has
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by smashah 3y ago
I reject any premise that free/reasonable programmatic access is dichotomous to profitability. Just as Devs are forced to resolve bugs in their code, business people should sort out the bugs in their balance sheet. These decisions are
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by smashah 3y ago
True. This is only going to get worse unless technical people in these companies put a foot down. Maintainers do not have the resources to pay for a legal defence (companies know this), the community has shiny-object-syndrome and so it&#x27
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by smashah 3y ago
Not to derail this conversation but there is an extremely concerning pattern of big companies restricting programmatic access. Elon with the Twitter changes and kneecapping third party clients. Reddit with this situation. WhatsApp with thei
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by smashah 3y ago
Thank you for your service
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by smashah 3y ago
Whatsapp is more used than SMS and all other apps combined. Is SMS controlled by one company? Whatsapp made Meta almost a billion dollars last year. Yet they're out here sending legal threats to OSS devs and devs of 3rd party clients.
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by smashah 3y ago
Great, now they should be forced to sell Whatsapp.
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by smashah 3y ago
Criminal organisation. They are now actively bullying open source developers with legal threats. Meta should be broken up.
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OpenAI threatens OSS maintainer with lawsuit(tomshardware.com)
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by smashah 4y ago
This is partly because loginHint is broken on microsoft/azure sign in
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by smashah 4y ago
I think it's also fair to discuss how some of the people who support the BJP and are part of the RSS export their fascist beliefs to places like UK, Canada, USA. These people are actively disturbing decades-long inter-community peace.
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by smashah 4y ago
We should call people who moan about license choices and donation messages in postinstall scripts what they are: leeches. If you take time out of your day to complain about an OSS project and spread negativity you're literally a detrim
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by smashah 4y ago
Yes of course it is wholly based in GitHub.
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by smashah 4y ago
I hit this problem for my project. On every launch of my lib, it would grab a patches file from the main github repo. I was seeing people having to wait 5 minutes+ and multiple restarts to get the latest pushed file. The solution was to run
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by smashah 4y ago
Are there no laws around account removal/shutdown? In the future I will be actively asking service providers their procedures on account shutdown.
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by smashah 4y ago
Should it be surprising? Yes. Am I surprised? No I have a pessimistic view on Tech's relationship with Apartheid Israel. For all the flexibility of ChatGPT it would be strange for it to be so pedantic as to differentiate based on etymo
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by smashah 4y ago
It also refuses to call Israel an Apartheid state whereas it can easily admit South Africa was an Apartheid state.
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by smashah 4y ago
There's no need to ask how others feel about your code. You don't need to pass some purity test to share your code in a way you're comfortable with. You don't need to live up to some zeitgeist idea of what OSS is or foll
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by smashah 4y ago
People should be encouraged to share these types of stories so we can hold these companies to account. Tiresome? Please refer to Tyler, the Creator's famous tweet if these posts are bothering you.

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