I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
Andrew Plotkin /
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2024-04-02 15:41:11
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2024-04-02 15:41:11Event JSON
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