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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s not, though. It’s a much wider potential for failure, as there are a great number of dependencies that are often left to individual developers to maintain. That may be a somewhat reasonable amount of risk when you’ve got multiple options for dependencies and no major target, but when the entire EU relies on single individual maintainers? That’s a massively exploitable threat vector. It would be absurd to assume no one will take advantage given what we’ve already seen.

    It would be an extremely foolish move to put the whole EU’s security on one single set of open source dependencies. Microsoft at least has a financial and legal incentive to try to prevent straight up breaches by state actors, shitty as they may be. There’s no such resource allocation or responsibility when it comes to open source repos.

    Push a switch to Linux, by all means, but security monoculture is as big a mistake as putting your eggs in any other single basket, especially one as exposed as one single distro.













  • That’s a really weird way of framing a hobbyist who isn’t being paid using their free time to code what they feel like coding. It seems to me that people who show up and make demands about what someone else does are literally attempting to dictate how that person spends their time. Someone coding what they want, rather than coding what other people want them to code, is just… independent? Autonomous? Do you really think that someone spending their free time how they want to constitutes being a ‘mini dictator’?

    It sounds to me like some end users like to have power over others and feel entitled to dictate how those who make the things they use spend their time.

    Personally, my suggestion to people with that attitude would be that they learn to make what they want themselves rather than demanding that others do it.


  • You post so much that makes sense and seems rational and well thought out. I don’t understand how you can expect anyone can think you’re acting in good faith when you come out with this shit, though. It’s so willfully divorced from reality that it’s stunning. I literally don’t understand how you could come to these conclusions if you’re anything other than a state actor or someone being paid.

    It confuses the hell out of me.

    But I’ll be voting for Harris. I’ll be banging away at how terrible her stance on Israel is literally on November 3rd right next to you if it doesn’t change, but not until we make sure Trump doesn’t get the keys to our nuclear arsenal and to the White House.

    But honestly? I’d be surprised if your account remains active at that point. It’s really, really hard for me to imagine that you might actually be a real person who cares about anything rather than just a character being played by someone so incredibly cynical that you don’t mind burning the entire world down for a few bucks.