Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD)
Probably needs more arrows, tbh
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It does sometimes seem like this, doesn't it?
However: One of the several real world cases that have cropped up over the years with that picture has been ntpd, and in fairness I don't think that the world knew what David L. Mills's politics were at all, or knows now.
There are a lot of quiet people like that. We've no idea what Herbert Xu, maintainer of the shell (dash) that runs much in Debian and Ubuntu, believes politically, for example.
@Floppy damn I fucking hope the readline guy doesn't turn out to be a fascist.
@Floppy
Isn't putting labels on contributors fascism in itself?
@Floppy Decentralize everything.
@Floppy I wish I could downvote this, but the frequency in which this has been happening lately is very sad. I mourn being able to (naively) believe that tech was more altruistic than this 😢
Even worse somehow is the hill that people are willing to die on. Sure, it's painful to our pride to admit mistakes, but are we all so bad at learning how to empathize and improve 😭
