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🚨 Downtime Update 🚨
That was a bit more involved of an update. Newest version of Mastodon is applied and running now though. Instability should improve soon.
This crypto skeptic I've heard of once said "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."A project called tea.xyz promised people they could "get rewards for [their] open-source contributions", complete with a flashy website describing how it would "enhance the sustainability of open-source software".So far, it's achieved the exact opposite. Promising to reward open source contributors with crypto tokens, the project asked users to verify their access to open source projects by merging in a YAML file containing their crypto wallet address. This kicked off a flood of pull requests to prominent, often non-crypto-related open source projects by people who had never contributed to the project (or, often, any open source project), but who wished to merge in a file describing them as a "code owner".Particularly impacted by this project was the open source blogging platform Ghost, which was used as an example in the demo video released by tea.xyz, and which received several PRs of this kind. A somewhat flummoxed maintainer of the repository replied to one PR: "[I]n practice the TEA project is not helping to support the Ghost project, but is instead causing a rush of self-serving PRs to be submitted to cash-in on other people's work. ... This why people hate on crypto." A maintainer of another unrelated open source project called "ghost" also reported receiving an influx of spam PRs.This is not the first time crypto has generated massive Github spam, although another recent incident was (blessedly) mostly limited to open-source crypto projects and didn't waste the time of non-crypto-related projects as this one has.
I’m delighted to announce that today I’m launching a new nonprofit journalism studio: Proof News.
Proof is into *proving things*! Our goal is to question, test, and investigate the most important issues of our time. We will always tell you what we know and what we don’t know.
Added the new Minnesota state flag as an emoji to mn.social
APOD from 2024-02-11
Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the #Moon
During a 2001 Atlantis shuttle launch, the Sun, #Earth, Moon, and rocket aligned at sunset. This created a long shadow from the shuttle's plume that pointed directly at the Full Moon on the opposite horizon.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240211.html#space #astronomy
Turns out FirstLast on Mastodon isn't great when your last name changes 🤭
Updated my profile here since it's Niximacco now. That shouldn't change and now it lets me freshen things up a bit!
Hi, I'm still the same Anthony, my profile used to be @AnthonyNixon now it's this one, @Niximacco
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