Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention">@<span>glyph</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://orbital.horse/@emma" class="u-url mention">@<span>emma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i'm going to go ahead and say that anyone who uses my software from a distro Must, and that is a capital-M must, obtain all support from the distro itself</p><p>the distro is of course free to obtain support from me</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://orbital.horse/@emma" class="u-url mention">@<span>emma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> okay it is nearly 2AM where I am so I am going to take a deep breath and put a pin in that, because I _super_ do not have the time to get into why distros should not exist and why the incentive structures of the community and the industry are such that they do the _opposite_ of this (distros create accountability drains so everyone can avoid responsibility, not robust institutions that can be depended upon). see this classic for the intro: <a href="https://alexgaynor.net/2015/mar/30/red-hat-open-source-community/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexgaynor.net/2015/mar/30/red</span><span class="invisible">-hat-open-source-community/</span></a></p>
<p>this knowledge gives me a deep "I am currently staring into the abyss" feeling, like looking down from a high up cliff</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://with.iridium.ink/@artemis" class="u-url mention">@<span>artemis</span></a></span> is the N perhaps a generic parameter?</p>
<p>more than once per every human who currently lives on earth</p>
<p>checked the latest numbers and it turns out that software projects i started and maintained were downloaded, at the least, 8.3 billion times. that's b</p><p>terrifying</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention">@<span>glyph</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://orbital.horse/@emma" class="u-url mention">@<span>emma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I believe I have, yes; I've been reading them as they came, and I gave them another skim just now (upsettingly, PyPI supports Webauthn but *not* passkeys?.. is that... how does that happen)</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention">@<span>glyph</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://orbital.horse/@emma" class="u-url mention">@<span>emma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> </p><p>~7.8B for ipaddr.js on npm<br />~0.5B for parser on rubygems<br />probably a few more tens of millions here and there, i stopped counting after these two, it gives me anxiety</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://orbital.horse/@emma" class="u-url mention">@<span>emma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I feel this burden quite heavily already and wow that is a _lot_ more than me :)</p>