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    5 days ago

    AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.

    Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew…

    As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

    # Fun Is Social

    My first real experience of OSS was with a successful

    Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships…

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    The dear miracle of a human this is…
    Of course… Absolutely…

    Thank you… heartfelt… Soulfelt… dear Mike McQuaid…

    Please do stay safe, your Family, and I wish you success, stability, and peace…