Re:I Am Not a Supplier
by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:25PM
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> when the source of the problem is the fact that NTP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, the BGP daemon, the libc you run on, etc are all maintained and "fixed" and evolved by people that can barely pay for their food, even less for basic tests ?
My take: I suspect that (perhaps a majority) of us here have a distant and abstract understanding of long-term poverty (eg:hunger on the table for years at a stretch). I'd offer that even the memory of real poverty doesn't equate with presently being into a long state of active poverty.
Translating across that gap is hard.
note: I'm not socially critiquing HN here. I am opining that survivor bias may be in play, however.
My take: I suspect that (perhaps a majority) of us here have a distant and abstract understanding of long-term poverty (eg:hunger on the table for years at a stretch). I'd offer that even the memory of real poverty doesn't equate with presently being into a long state of active poverty.
Translating across that gap is hard.
note: I'm not socially critiquing HN here. I am opining that survivor bias may be in play, however.