@AlexanderKingsbury What kind of cross-examination is this? They're friends, and @alxd is providing good advice on not rushing headlong into a critical situation with more good intentions than good sense.
@AlexanderKingsbury Often when there's a natural disaster, the relief organizations and government need to tell people "please stop sending <thing>, we already have <thing>". Sometimes even when people are sending money!
A rando just deciding to go to a place has no idea what is needed, that's correct. Maybe they'll make a lucky guess, maybe they won't.
Are you arguing against the value of being informed?
@yngmar@Gina Oh hey that video was really helpful and straight to the point. No life story, no sponsor, no like and subscribe, and a few pointers beyond the obvious. A minute well spent!
OSV.dev is a google-run CVE check for mainline source trees, but it misses custom forks and the branch points where CVEs entered those. SWH has a global view of source code and can help.
Conflicting meeting adjourned, as half of the people had other conflicting mettings to attend. 😅
Back to the Open Source Day, now it's di Cosmo, and he is currently speaking about #SwhScanner , which I think is a source integrity tool using Software Heritage data for source code provenance checks.
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