The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
I would simply deal with these bullies by telling them to fuck off and fork their own thing instead of bugging me to push an update on the main. This feels nore like it should be happening to closed source things where the only way to get a thing in it is to beg the dev.
What?
That’s a pretty bold claim to make.
Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
I would simply deal with these bullies by telling them to fuck off and fork their own thing instead of bugging me to push an update on the main. This feels nore like it should be happening to closed source things where the only way to get a thing in it is to beg the dev.
Unfortunately, that’s the social element of social engineering. Not all developers feel that way and it’s possible to trick them.
Luckily, most developers are on the spectrum and aren’t affected as much by that type of social engineering.
Most developers are on the spectrum
What? That’s a pretty bold claim to make. Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=announcement-banner&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019