"#OpenSource maintainers are effectively unpaid outsourcing teams for giant corporations. The Alibaba engineer told the log4j team: 'Please hurry up'. Meanwhile, let's remember that Alibaba has a market cap of $348 billion" – Yawar Amin
https://dev.to/yawaramin/the-human-toll-of-log4j-maintenance-35ap
Thinking more people are going to engage with you on mainstream social media “because everyone’s there” is like thinking people at a stadium concert are there to listen to you. It‘s only true if you’re one of the ones on stage. Not so much when you’re huddled in the nosebleeds.
Forget the numbers. Forget about “going viral” (leave it to the psychopaths in Silicon Valley to make virus-like behaviour aspirational). Embrace the joy of interacting with one another on a human scale.
As a maintainer of OpenSource libraries and packages, there is something that kept feeling off in the whole Software Supply Chain discourse. I think this comes down to something simple.
I am not a Supplier.
You can read more explanation there https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.
Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies. Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first successful long distance demonstration […]
Subscribed to the digital edition of our once respected local newspaper, tempted by $1 a month for a year.
Clicked into the "Local" section on the app and website - hasn't been updated in a year.
You had literally one job, newspaper people.
Sadly not surprised as they were sucked into the Gannett-verse in the last few years and stopped actually printing earlier last year. #Newspapers #LocalNews