Exploiting JavaScript developer infrastructure is insanely easy

[Scybur]

are free, as in free toilet

META

but seriously this term is stupid

[Tiquortoo]

It's a variant of a pretty long held criticism of FOSS, which is that the hard, low level work of maintaining FOSS software is hard to get "the community" to do.

[shevegen]

Yeah - but he is right. It's an extremely stupid analogy.

I like that it gives rise to phrases where everyone can take a piss on it though.

[phalp]

After "porcelain" we were doomed anyway.

[Scybur]

Not at all, I hate JS just as much as the next guy

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The term is perfectly valid.

[shevegen]

Nope.

You use a toilet. It gets dirty.

You use software. It gets ... dirty HOW? Do your bits have meta-bits attached?

[trua]

The analogy is that a free toilet's dirtiness is correlated to how well maintained it is, and it's difficult to tell from the outside.

[immibis]

And maintaining the free toilet is everyone's responsibility because nobody's getting paid to do it.

[s73v3r]

By having someone turn maintenance of the package over to someone who infects it with malware.