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Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No need to be so defensive... unless you you the F-Droid team they are writing about. Are you?

Either way it is just whataboutism aimed at a strawman. No one is saying proprietary software is better.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not sure why its still showing for you but i removed my comment seconds after posting as i misread and didnt know this was about bulling. I firmly stand against bullies of any kind.

Ever since the xz thing i have noticed a general increase in articles and clickbait titles spreading fear about open source software in general, its started to feel like intentional propaganda, for this post it was unwarranted.

Ps: please do confirm if my comments is removed by now on your end, i suspect comments may not always continue to sync between lemmy servers after the first initial postings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There's always been FUD around OSS, this is just a fresh wave of it since the xz thing got quite a bit of publicity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Your original comment is not showing for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, I still see it. Not sure why, maybe because I commented on it.

I've had several comments behave the same way, unable to actually delete them, even after waiting a while for the delete to propagate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The best thing to do is edit it to be just a period then delete. I can still sew deleted comments by hitting copy text