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Also I can't help wondering if the switch to cloud makes sense for stack overflow now again because their traffic collapsed. I took the whole post as something that should be mourned a bit, not gleefully destroyed.
Ultimately it's a bit of an inprecise human concept. The boundaries of what fits in there might be somewhat unclear, but we definitely things that intuitively are (humans) and aren't (plants, rocks) in this set.
> A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
Even though it's BS I think it's still interesting to read how people relate to the story.
Tons of devs download thousands of NPM packages as well, and each can execute code upon install, so a single curl-to-shell pipe from a HTTPS endpoint from a domain you checked always felt way safer than any `npm install`, and so a pretty minor in comparison and yet it gets a lot more attention than package manager, which _feels_ like security cargo culting. Plenty of supply chain attacks in package managers of course. But yeah, would like to be corrected if that intuition is wrong.
The best way to seem like you're not hiding something is to have something else to show.
But choice and competition is one of the best things about Linux, so if a small group is upset about losing X11 and self-organize to carry the torch, more power to them. Build a great alternative, and maybe present yourself as a choice rather than being so reactionary. You're not a rebel, you're just in a niche and that's OK.