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I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

För 22 år sedan skrev en ung, talangfull människorättsjurist ett öppet brev till Tony Blair för att protestera mot Irakkriget.
Hans namn var Keir Starmer.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-starmer-kan-hamna-i-samma-sits-som-bl…

Erik de la Reguera: Keir Starmer riskerar hamna i samma sits som Tony Blair
I Iran riskerar Storbritanniens premiärminister Keir Starmer att hamna i samma sits som Tony Blair gjorde i Irak. Ska han ställa sig ”skuldra mot skuldra” med Donald Trump – eller säga nej?

Thank you! Great history! Great Prmary sources. Great interpretations that modern minds can see and believe. It's a bunch of posts, AND they're all worth it.
#History #USHistory #Independence

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (@Deglassco@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image It was known, then, that the British would leave. The war was all but lost. The colonies would no longer be colonies. For white Loyalists, exile was bitter. For Black Loyalists, it was not exile. It was escape—or re-enslavement. 4/20 Image. Boston King, “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his Residence at Kingswood-School,” Methodist Magazine, March-June 1798.

It was great attending Kotlinconf, speaking about the work we're doing in Android Studio with Jewel and Compose, meeting so many great folks!
While you wait for the new talk recording, catch up on the Markdown talk from @… Italy I mentioned today!

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört.
Ein #Unfall oder eine plötzliche Erkrankung können dazu führen, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen mehr treffen kann. Doch wer kümmert sich dann um wichtige Angelegenheiten?
Ein #Notfallordner

Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört
Keine Überraschungen im Ernstfall: So erstellst du einen Notfallordner mit allen wichtigen Vollmachten, Verfügungen und finanziellen Regelungen.

Wow. This looks great. If it had been available 2 months ago my summer holidays would look a bit different!
Next time...
https://mastodon.social/@stefanlindbohm/114733502859245671
stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social - Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.
Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’be built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!
Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

Limits to Growth was right about collapse.
"This improved parameter set results in a World3 simulation that shows the same overshoot and collapse mode in the coming decade as the original business as usual scenario of the LtG standard run."
https://www.re…

Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Measurements of the z=4-10 X-ray Luminosity Function: the high space density of moderate-luminosity, obscured AGN
C. L. Barlow-Hall, J. Aird
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16145

Measurements of the z=4-10 X-ray Luminosity Function: the high space density of moderate-luminosity, obscured AGN
SMBHs are theorised to undergo significant growth in the early Universe, however, the X-ray Luminosity Function (XLF), used as a principal tracer of the SMBH accretion density, lacks observational constraints at z>6, until now. We present new measurements of the z=4-10 XLF at intermediate luminosities, taking advantage of recent deep near-IR imaging from UltraVISTA that enables us to identify galaxies and AGN at high redshifts within which we identify X-ray sources using Chandra COSMOS data. We…