Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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The amount of retards who don't understand that Git has been decentralized from the very beginning and Github is just a centralized VC barnacle on top of it makes me MATI. No wonder Microshit bought them.
 
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The amount of retards who don't understand that Git has been decentralized from the very beginning and Github is just a centralized VC barnacle on top of it makes me MATI. No wonder Microshit bought them.
I would like to think he was joking. Then again I have had people at work ask me to help setup their "GitHub" for them. (We use VSTS :lossmanjack:)
 
I know absolutely nothing about Chris Wanstrath.

Is he based? Is he redpilled?

I was friends with Chris when we were younger, and he is a very normal Midwest guy that I have noting bad to say about. Fun fact: he only sold GitHub because he didn't want to run it anymore, his CEO pick got MeToo'd, and Microsoft not only paid out the ass, they only golden handcuffed him for a year.
 
I've been thinking about that actually.
If installing applications the normal way is "sideloading", what will normal computers be called in the future?
"sidebooting"? "untrusted booting"? "unsafe booting"?
Secure boot is already kinda sorta getting us there. They built in a system of certificate trust and bootloader signing into every new motherboard and defaulted it to on. It's all under the guise of security, but it also has the insidious effect of requiring the user to go into the BIOS and disable secure boot if their bootloader isn't signed.

The security is a farce because all it takes is an incompetent motherboard manufacturer to lose control of their signing keys for it to all come crashing down.

Linux people don't want to have to beg daddy Microsoft to resign grub every time they update, so they use a shim as the 1st stage bootloader that is signed and does its own verification process before handing off to grub. Of course adding complexity adds vulnerabilities, like this one announced a few days ago https://arstechnica.com/security/20...cting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/
 
They built in a system of certificate trust and bootloader signing into every new motherboard and defaulted it to on. It's all under the guise of security, but it also has the insidious effect of requiring the user to go into the BIOS and disable secure boot if their bootloader isn't signed
You can put in your own PK/KEK/DB keys to block Microsoft products, you'll have your own private key. It's very nice to control your own security.

That is of course if mobo and bios vendors are competent enough to actually allow you to use your own keys, or actually even have the option to include multiple public keys to be inserted as envisioned.

Shim adds another MOK key layer, so Canonical/Redhat cucks don't need to send grub to Microsoft to sign again every time there is an update. There's also the clause in the Grub GPLv3 license that requires you to divulge your private key if you distribute the grub binary, so that the end user can replace the binary on their own machine. Thank you Tivo for inspiring Richard Stallman to keep corpohacks away from making free software into become free only in theory.
 
Some Pajeet made a how to tutorial on pull requests using ExpressJS as an example, and now the repo is getting slammed by shit quality pull requests from the poos
I occasionally think about how humanity would change without language, such as by a technology that allows one human to send pure thoughtstuff directly into the mind of another. Language forces humans to generalize and abstract, and so it's fair to say something important would be lost.

However, I'm reminded once again that subhumans can't generalize anyway. This reminds me of the case of an image of a flower on Wikimedia being accessed constantly by some Indian phone program, because it was used in an example somewhere on StackOverflow, and the example was just copied and pasted:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741 (archive)
https://indianexpress.com/article/t...-million-daily-requests-india-flower-7184029/ (archive)
 
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