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Twitter only had enough engineers remaining to keep it on for one more night, but it miraculously kept working for eight.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1593458811771174913
I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.
The result: profanity.
@atomicpoet @kasilas @davidallengreen The AGPL isn't especially helpful or relevant against this risk, because the _protocol_ is open. The risk is that (as has happened before with XMPP) big players release a new service with great fanfare that initially federates with other systems, and then quietly turn off federation once they have a sufficient critical mass of users.
There are probably defences, but this one won't be solved by licensing.
I have decayed
the works
that were in
your kingdom
and which
you were probably
saving
for gazing upon
Forgive me
they were colossal
so vast
and with such cold command
@atomicthumbs let it be noted that easily 95% of the packages Ubuntu distributes are taken, unreviewed, from Debian, who is considered a trusted upstream. Most of the time, this is a sane default.
Most of the time.
Now that I am aware, I have taken action to remove the content from Ubuntu releases going forward:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fortune-mod/+bug/1996682
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fortune-mod/1:1.99.1-7.1ubuntu1
I haven't decided whether to have the battle in Debian about removal. There are more pro-fascists in Debian than there ought to be.
"I've discovered that currently, as of Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu distributes a package called "fortunes-off" that is full of homophobia, Hitler quotes, virulent misogyny, racism, and more, for the "fortunes" program" https://mastodon.social/@.../109349931159589086 This kind of content is not consistent with Ubuntu values and should not be distributed as part of Ubuntu, regardless of whether it is hidden by a content warning and made opt-in. Like many packages in the Ubuntu archive, this package...
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