Josh Law4d ago
buhtz

āš™ļø Imagine all #FOSS projects taking a one-week break at the same time.

šŸ”’ No one reviewing or fixing #security bugs in #curl, the #Linux kernel, #Firefox, #Tor, ...

šŸ“¦ šŸŒ‘ #Codeberg and #Forgejo going dark. #Debian and #Arch mirrors disappearing. #PyPI, #npm, #crates.io, #docker. #CI pipelines stopping.

Just thinking. ā¤ļø

May 27 at 2:04pmWeb
Show threadJosh Law5d ago

@buhtz the world would fucking blow up I bet

heh all the vuln bots can't get CVEs

Show threadPaul Bryan4d ago
@buhtz sounds kinda nice. Plus, it would give Gentoo users a chance to catch up while their compilation finishes šŸ˜‰
Show threadJosh Law4d ago

@pabryan @buhtz

for some pcs it still won't be enough

on one of my old PCs it took like 24 hours to compile a kernel lmao

Show threadQuinn Comendant4d ago
@buhtz Honestly, Iā€™m feeling a little nostalgic for the days when software was distributed on disks, when updates came through the postal mail, and only rarely, if ever.
Show threadfossham4d ago

@buhtz

Quite the sales pitch for FOSS, isn't it? It can't happen because there is no central authority that could mandate such a thing, and even if someone tried, stakeholders would step in to fill the gap because users can also be contributors.

Compare this to Microsoft or Solarwinds zero-days, in which users are at the mercy of corporate single points of failure. Or even just not-as-community-minded Linux distros, like Ubuntu, which suffered a DDOS attack.

FOSS is just better, this way.