people are like “ohh yea code that gets audited by a lot of eyeballs… right” about open source as a security measure, but genu-the-fucking-inly it is so much better than closed source stuff
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cafkafk (cafkafk@catgirl.farm)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 00:55:10 JST cafkafk
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purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 00:55:08 JST purple 👊✊💨
@cafkafk@catgirl.farm the fact that it can be audited by many more folks is a good reason, because, in fact, it probably isn't being QA'd nearly as hard.
making open source stuff stable enough to run in production is a cottage industry right now.Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this. -
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cafkafk (cafkafk@catgirl.farm)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 01:18:23 JST cafkafk
love how I posted this just before I saw the misskey exploit explosion
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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