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Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

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[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 2 points 2 days ago

This is where systemd will become what xz damn near did.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

To xz author credit, he bite the bullet and did the work to undue the rogue maintainer's damage.

Dude doesn't wear a cape, but he could totally get away with it!

6yo: Hey that guy is naked except for a cape and platform stiletto heels!

mother: Yeah that's the xz author. He could get away with anything at this point and the world would cheer

[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks you for putting the proper context of that. I'm only new to that particular event. I do remember a while back with something something regarding xz and recently, middle of last week, saw the video from Veritasium elaborate upon it a bit. I rare follow title like that but they got me on another one of their vidoe and after my usual roller coast vision into it, I was well and impressed but the way they took it to a meaningful development in logic itself. So seeing them post about this it bit and was floored by how much I appreciate the way the describe all the important concepts that are so difficult to talk to fucking anyone that isn't already a coder. Then, even, it's one way or the other. I don't get too much into software development but I do study culture of it for my true project. RMS philosophy establishes the important basis for computer use but he misses all the basic structure I work for off what I need to establish for what I'm working towards Nothing wrong with that. I'm just trying to say that I respect the show speaking of, toward, and with part of logic of that is an important part of what I am studying.

The product of those who produce open source, especially FOSS, is fundamental logic for living toward a real world worth living in. It's more than just about computers. I am working with working with computers to study how to say what they said about that and translate that to what we're missing on the other part I was handed to before I understood the relationship of the particular subject I'm focused towards in active cognitive. Even that has only recently focus into something I can see in a wholeness sense. not that I do even begin to describe it. Blah, blah, blah. Communication has only recently been developed to the capability beyond allusion. That latter was achieved by kharma, like a gift but not "earned" but given by enduring a lot of "suffering" that I chose and learned from without questioning myself in my choice beyond doing so just to verify my logic. Which I do do, like doo doo.

Anyway...yeah. This stuff is important to me, certainly. I like to read well described attributes of such. Thanks for that.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

First step is don't watch videos. Read the article that explains the xz hack in detail.

Watching a video the details fly by too quickly. Takes time for our mind to wrap around how the hack works. You are not going to get that by watching a video.

If your foretay is philosophy, please redirect ur efforts to write a license which charges|excludes those jurisdictions and collaborators who facilitate these erosion of our rights. They always have an excuse. And we can always pull out really high numbers, e.g. usd$5T/day

After that, i'll make you famous by including it into a python package that is fundamental to Python (serious not Mickey Mouse like Django) database and web site development.

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