TILDE TOWN EMERGENCY SHELTER
I want to say thank you all for keeping these websites online (tilde.town, tiny.tilde.website, forum.sickos.net)
I find it quite difficult to articulate just quite how much this place means to me, but it really genuinely does.
But just because I never talk to any of you doesn't mean that I don't adore you all.
I find it quite difficult to articulate just quite how much this place means to me, but it really genuinely does.
But just because I never talk to any of you doesn't mean that I don't adore you all.
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hi! i'm brennan. i wasn't on tilde.town that much but i was getting into it more only to find it was closed </3
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CodeSquirrel
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We have finally reached a point where "hardly anyone uses Linux lol" is no longer an excuse for vulns, I'm afraid...
A significant chunk of the population run it in their pocket, and the web has been built on it since time immemorial, so no longer can us nerds hide behind the excuse of it being a "niche free open source operating system"; that hasn't been true for decades
It's likely time for open source to step the fuck up and Get Shit Right The First Time if it is to continue to exist; I predict we'll start getting liability requirements on all publicly-released software in the near future…bills of the sort that would require a Microsoft- or Google-level security team to reasonably comply with. Maybe Cali will introduce a bill first and then it'll get taken to the federal level, then other countries will want to follow suit.
…or someone else will introduce it first and we'll follow suit.
In any case, it'll have a *massive* chilling effect on the development of new software (and continued mantenance of countless smaller open-source projects), further consolidating power into the hands of the incumbent megacorps…
I figure all it'll take is a major government org getting mega-hacked due to a Linux kernel vuln…
A significant chunk of the population run it in their pocket, and the web has been built on it since time immemorial, so no longer can us nerds hide behind the excuse of it being a "niche free open source operating system"; that hasn't been true for decades
It's likely time for open source to step the fuck up and Get Shit Right The First Time if it is to continue to exist; I predict we'll start getting liability requirements on all publicly-released software in the near future…bills of the sort that would require a Microsoft- or Google-level security team to reasonably comply with. Maybe Cali will introduce a bill first and then it'll get taken to the federal level, then other countries will want to follow suit.
…or someone else will introduce it first and we'll follow suit.
In any case, it'll have a *massive* chilling effect on the development of new software (and continued mantenance of countless smaller open-source projects), further consolidating power into the hands of the incumbent megacorps…
I figure all it'll take is a major government org getting mega-hacked due to a Linux kernel vuln…
