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For anyone whom I caused concern by my recent post, I'm feeling much better now.

"Touching Grass" illustrates joy directly following despair, a respite after sadness. It may be a dog's life, but between valleys of despair might be hills covered in ground cover green and fragrant enough to roll in.🐾

#furry#furryart#feral

@0x00string m8, please go touch #TouchGrass and actually look at what the bottom 75% of society are concerned with…

  • Spoiler Alert: People who live paycheck to paycheck and can't stomach a surprise $400 expense with savings (i.e. 90% of all US households) are less likely to be politically active and may not have the capacity to focus on it.

Dismissal of these factors doesn't make them go away!

  • People who are exhausted after a 48-60+ hours, 5-6 day work week (not counting in unpaid labour ranging from commute to carework) may be barely able to keep their shit together...
Infosec ExchangeNullstring 🏴‍☠️ (@0x00string@infosec.exchange)@kkarhan@infosec.space yeah, word man. im not going to make excuses! diffused blame deferred to < concept with no name or address or actionable context >! #hashtag

$8.8 trillion. Yes, with a T.

In 2024, my friend Frank Nagle (et al.) at Harvard Business School dropped a paper titled The Value of Open Source Software

hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20File

It’s not light reading, but here’s the TL;DR:

* Supply-side value of creating and maintaining popular open source software? About $4.15 billion.

* Demand-side replacement cost if companies had to rebuild that OSS themselves? A casual $8.8 trillion.

Let that sink in. Open source software is quietly propping up the global economy like a tired BOFH running on coffee and unpaid emotional labor.

And how do we reward open source maintainers, the unsung heroes keeping the digital world upright?

Enter the AI Slop Era.

Take @bagder — creator and lead maintainer of cURL and libcurl — two of the most widely used OSS projects in existence. Instead of sipping margaritas on a beach somewhere (as he should be), he's busy triaging nonsense AI-generated “exploits” reported via HackerOne.

Want a peek into his inbox of doom?
1. HackerOne cURL Hacktivity hackerone.com/curl/hacktivity?
2. Filter by: Report State = Not Applicable
3. Feel: 😬 existential dread

This is what happens when people feed vibe-code into an LLM, squint, and hit “submit.”

So, what can you do?

* Using AI to vibe-code security bugs? Please stop. Seriously. Shut the laptop. Go touch grass. Maybe talk to a human.
* Using OSS in your business? Chances are, you are. Time to give back — with funding, sponsorships, or actual engineering help.
* Using OSS personally? Thank a maintainer. Donate. Contribute. Even fixing a typo in the README helps.

Open source built the internet. It’s still holding it together with duct tape and goodwill.

Let’s treat it — and the people behind it — like the $8.8 trillion miracle it is.

Leute wie #Merz müssten mal ne #Legislaturperiode lang #Lohnarbeit machen.

Denn ganz offensichtlich ist der #Bankster von #BlackRock komplett entkoppelt von der #Realität der #Wähler*innen und ganz allgemein #Bevölkerung!

youtube.com/watch?v=gMBS6uQ-3ng

@PeterRu tja, #DTAG hat damit bei mir verschissen, gerade weil diese NULL GRÜMDE dafür haben!

Ich wette #JohnLegere als ehemaliger #CEO von #Tmobile #USA ist absolut stocksauer, denn die zerstören sein Werk als based CEO!

Gerade auch weil die #Telekom so elementare dinge woe #FTTH-Ausbau komplett verweigert!

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@TonyStark I don't want to sound ableist, given the whole #NatSec implications one may percieve #Musk to not be "mentally fit" for the roles and responsibilities he's currently in.

  • Responsible employers in rational juristictions would sent him home, request him to report in sick and apply for medical leave for rehab.

But Musk is a "Multi-#CEO" and #Billionaire in the #USA so we can all count on #TMZ showing his total collapse live on TV...

  • Lets just hope it doesn't involve any sort of (sexual) assault or other indecency but him being jailed and sentenced to sober up and #TouchGrass...

I think #Billionaires and those "earning" millions per year [exchanged in € as per rate] should be forced to #TouchGrass for all the right reasons.

This doesn't require him to take notes, but just do some "quick maths" on a napkin if he can't memorize stuff in his head to acknowledge that paying people a living wage is the solution.