FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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  • Alex@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlCloudflare bankrolls fascists
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    2 months ago

    I didn’t know who Kirk was until the assassination I have better things to do with my limited time than go on a deep dive into their history before posting any comment on the news. I kinda got the vibe when I realised that was who Cartman was based on in the recent South Park.


  • There are large areas of open source that don’t rely on volunteer labour because companies with a vested interest pay people to work on them. They tend to be the obvious large projects that are continuously developed and gain new features. The trouble with something like xz is it was mostly “done” (as in it did the thing it was intended to do) but still needed maintenance to address the minor niggles, bug reports and updates to tooling and dependencies.

    The foundations could do a better job here of supporting the maintainers. After Heartbleed the Linux Foundation started the Core Infrastructure Initiative to help fund those under recognised projects. I would hope the people running that could be more proactive identifying those critical understaffed components.

    Edit I think it’s now called the Open Source Security Foundation: https://openssf.org/






  • I don’t know why we couldn’t have what we already have on mobile. My kids phones have isp enforced restrictions that prevent them stumbling onto most adult sites. At home I’ve got their devices fairly locked down but I’m fairly technical so know how it works. I don’t know why households couldn’t just have a setting with their ISP that allows them to opt in/out of blocking non-OSA compliment sites rather than doing a blanket censorship.

    I get the reasoning behind the OSA - a lot of parents don’t know how to protect their kids online and defer to the government to sort it out. However the implementation has been a giant flustercuck.