I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

  •  ulkesh   ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) 
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    43 months ago

    Exactly. Acting like this is an “ah-ha, see?!!” moment when this is exactly what open source is designed for. That’s like saying global warming is a hoax because “oh look it’s snowing”.

    • This isn’t a knock against opensource programming, but there shouldn’t ever be precompiled blobs in the repo unless they are the official builds for the various OS’s and if you want to build from source, the pre-compiled blobs shouldn’t be part of that, otherwise you can’t really claim you are opensource.

      •  ulkesh   ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) 
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        13 months ago

        Yes, and that’s what is being called out here. But your original comment makes it sound like you are advocating for closed source software and that somehow open source software is bad.

        This is the system working as intended. When potential issues arise, it’s openly discussed and ideally resolved. And if not, trust is lost and people will stop using it.

        •  PowerCrazy   ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) 
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          I don’t know about the history of the project, but it sounds like those blobs have been there for quite some time. When in reality, the PR that added the blobs in the first place shouldn’t ever have been approved.

          Actually just checked 3+ years.