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GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
A software vendor reports a malware-laced GitHub imitation of Easy Data Transform that sat for weeks after reports—until the post hit Hacker News and the page disappeared within minutes.
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PlayTaurus argues guitarists should buy hardware for what it is and run community firmware on it—ESP32-class chips are cheap enough, NAM models are open, and closed pedal firmware is the last proprietary lock.
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Eric Bailey argues CSS-Tricks should become a co-op so the web keeps an independent, practitioner-owned home for frontend knowledge—after the site’s repeated near-deaths under corporate ownership.
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A sharp critical response to Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay, arguing that the proposed pacing framework would entrench frontier labs' market position, suppress open-weight models, and dress up competitive self-interest as safety policy.
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# No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc
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