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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:18:15 JST pettter

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   • Cat Hicks

   @grimalkina This might be of interest, in case you haven't already read it: https://medium.com/message/4c1dbcbe1099

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:18:16 JST Cat Hicks

     Reading about this xz backdoor story from the outside as a person who is still learning much about the technical ins and outs, but as a psychologist it is just overwhelming to imagine a maintainer in this position and all of the feelings of pressure and skill based identity and social isolation that must be involved.

     Imho psychology has a duty to show up for technology practitioners and work for them just like we see and work for the well-being of emergency workers, healthcare providers.

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:18:16 JST Cat Hicks

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     I feel that as a field, psych has largely let the human side of software development pass it by and we have been content to be merely consumers as much as the rest of the world. But the needs of these people are going unaddressed, undermeasured and unheard. I talk to a lot of psychologists about why I started working with software teams and the human needs that are there and the massive amounts of societal responsibility & pressure that are there too. We really need to have this conversation.

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     James Wu (analogist@social.ridetrans.it)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:43:36 JST James Wu

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     • Cat Hicks

     @grimalkina the part that stood out to me was that the decision from the poor maintainer to hand over the maintainership to the malicious actor was… expedited by a slew of psyops abuse from various sockpuppet accounts that were *absolutely indistinguishable* from the demands that OSS maintainers of popular packets get on a routine basis.

     e.g.: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00568.html