In the end, for the vast majority of users, the result is the same as people using closed source software, they're trusting other people to be acting in good faith.
Maybe, but with open source they have a choice because they can learn and gain more freedom, closed source simply demands obedience and promotes ignorance.
Yeah, at some point you have to accept that not everyone wants to learn programming and it doesn't make them cucks just because they don't share your interests.
I'm sure you wouldn't be happy if someone called you a cuck because they know how to build a house up to code from scratch and you don't.
It's also very funny to check your history and seeing you complain about gatekeeping when you're insulting people who run closed source software because you disagree with their choice...
Took the cuck comment hard huh? Just say so, no need to have a whole argument about it.
I was wondering how long it would take for the cringelord redditors that would check post history to arrive, good to see you bringing your bad habits with you to shit up this platform too.
Yeah... Except if the compiler is backdoored. Ken Thompson explained this back in the day. If the compiler is compromised, there ultimately isn't a way to see if there's something malicious going on. Brodie Robertson does a good job explaining this.
Oh I totally agree. I find these sort of arguments around privacy and security more interesting than they are concerning, cuz yeah, ultimately if someone wants the data badly enough, they'll get it.
In my personal life, I like to explore all the privacy related gadgets/software I can for two reasons. One is that its just kind of fun. And the other is because ultimately I don't want to make it all that easy for every bit of my personal life to be laid bare on the internet.
Like I said, if somebody wants my data bad enough, they'll get it. But I suppose that puts the onus on me (and the developers of the software I trust), to make the data NOT all that easy to get.
Software getting pegged with cves left and right because of hundreds of source libraries is definitely not a thing.
Unless you are one of the few people writing go routines for massive companies, or working on hardware and low level hardware where you have low resources where scaling can mean millions you are writing code using hundreds of dependencies and libraries.
The fuck are you talking about? It's a thing in almost every major Node application I have ever worked on to reduce dependencies as much as possible. We do the same for Python. What shithouse dev company are you working for?