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TimeSquirrel
joined 1 year ago
Meredith Whitaker, the president of Signal, said βI keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS [free and open source software culture of shitty behavior and abuse.β
βWhat is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.β
Emphasis mine.
A software economy based around sharing and openness is not compatible with whatever the fuck you want it to be. If you want decent, secure software, provided for free, then be a decent human.
Sorry for the confusion. I should probably start using emojis to convey playfulness in nonserious comments.
You know jokes and sarcasm are a thing, right?
Everything's "techbros living in a sci-fi novel", until one day it isn't.
I'm only 42 and I have seen very incredible advancements made in my lifetime that I never thought would be reality as a child. Handheld mobile communications devices that allow you to talk and share media instantly with anyone on the planet, for instance. That's some literal Star Trek shit. Or the fact we now have the equivalent computing power of all the world's supercomputers in the 80s put together on our desks. Or RNA vaccines, instead of using dead or dying viruses, we can now reprogram the body to make whatever antibodies it needs.
Why? I'd use the shit out of them at work. I work on construction sites. It'd be awesome to have an app to superimpose the finished plans on top of what I'm seeing so I don't have to constantly refer back to the paper prints. No more measuring shit five times, just install it exactly as you see it.
Do any of you people actually use your OS, or do you just distro-hop and tweak things all day?
Did you forgot about Tamagotchi? It would just be the next iteration of that.
Kids aren't that stupid, in my experience. My son knew at 6 years old that the voice coming out of our Google Home speakers is fake.
Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.
Sorry. Wife's Christmas present. She wanted to surprise me. Gotta make do.