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

Reminder: the only reason we found out about the xz backdoor is because some autist from Microsoft(!) noticed that his SSH took half a second longer to connect.
 
I doubt that. The backdoors are a risk to them too if they use the software. It's good practice for maintainers to use their own software anyway ("dogfooding").
This is hopelessly naive. It's commonly accepted that government agencies like the NSA do an internal evaluation if the discover a security hole in some software: if it's likely to be discovered by rival agencies or criminals, they'll file a bug report or submit a patch to deny their enemies a chance to exploit the hole, but if the hole is obscure enough that it's unlikely to be discovered by anyone else, they'll make a patch for themselves (and maybe some friendly agencies) to avoid getting pwned if a rival does happen to discover it, but otherwise they'll keep it secret so they can exploit it themselves.
 
I just learned that the creator of Chimera Linux trooned out in January. Only found out because I was looking up dinit, and he just so happened to be an active contributor. I mean, I'm not surprised. He was always a bit of fruit cake, but geez.
 
I just learned that the creator of Chimera Linux trooned out in January. Only found out because I was looking up dinit, and he just so happened to be an active contributor. I mean, I'm not surprised. He was always a bit of fruit cake, but geez.

Ah, the same guy that the eternal troon simp DeVault was fawning over in his latest blog post about the XLibre nonsense.

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Off to a good start :story:. At least the troon alias isn't Sophie or Emily.

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LOL, like clockwork, it's the funny Swedish warehouse shark.

Guy seems deranged and significant enough (in Drew's orbit anyway) to be worth his own thread.
 
There are probably missile/bomb guidance systems in current use by the US military that use FFMPEG because many processors natively support it.
FFmpeg is unlikely, but OpenCV is for sure used in weapon guidance and surveillance technology.
 
Suckless is reactionary? News to me.
What does reactionary even mean, is it just another word for "right-wing"/"Nazi"?
Suckless is quite literally reactionary since it's mostly about RETVRN TO TRVE VNIX. The guy is probably referring to the few lolbergs and NRXfags in the suckless community though.
 
I just learned that the creator of Chimera Linux trooned out in January. Only found out because I was looking up dinit, and he just so happened to be an active contributor. I mean, I'm not surprised. He was always a bit of fruit cake, but geez.
Google's AI still deadnames him. Well at least it's good for something.
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Lunduke advocating for mandatory ID verification as "the only solution" to the AI bot problem (he literally just covered the Tea app leak). Besides the obvious, there are a few big problems with this. 1 platforms have the ability right now to massively downsize the AI bot problem, but they don't do this because those bots are beneficial to those platforms. 2 many of those "bots" are actually humans, whether they are Indians or Redditors. 3 even pretending that platforms want to get rid of the bots, this is unlikely to even work, because it is very unlikely that a convincing fake ID will be spotted, especially since shitholes like India will probably be willing to vouch for them. 4 this is very racist because black people are too stupid to get government IDs, as is well known. 5 the highest quality posters will leave because you would have to be terminally retarded to send your government ID to a tech company.
 
6 real ID is wholly unnecessary because platforms already have the ip addresss of the users and can geolocate them. If they at least posted the country the user was posting from it would become blatantly clear who are bots
 
Related to that, EU started developing their age verification app, and the README states that it will depend on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation (which may or may not be just a boilerplate they didn't remove).
GitHub / Ghostarchive
There's an issue open about that, which received some attention from users, but no response from developers. GitHub / Ghostarchive
 
Does this retard Lunduke not understand that the internet is already dead and were in the decay process ecosystem forming on its corpse?
 
Suckless is reactionary? News to me.
What does reactionary even mean, is it just another word for "right-wing"/"Nazi"?
It's me :)

But seriously though, it's supposed to mean "anti-revolutionary". Think people who want to return to the good ol' days. Nowadays it's just another word for "conservative".
 
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