Mate, let’s first focus on getting you better. Nevermind how the parents would react, parents aren’t there forever and their reach on our lives can only go so far. I know in Asian culture things can get nasty, but at the end of the day there’s just you and your sense of self. It gets better as you age and get to know yourself more and work through the issues left by trauma. But we need to get away from the morbidity aspect, that’s not good for you.

Sorry, I’m not trying to be your therapist, but there’s some relatability in your words, I feel an impulse to help.

That’s an interesting question. It’s pretty nuanced. I don’t know of any laws that would stop Microsoft from going “oops, we had a bug in our software, sorry about that”. Same for the linux distros. Unless you’re a corporate customer, then that would be included as part of some contract. So at the end of the day you trust Microsoft’s reputation. You’d trust your distro of choice as well. So as a thought experiment I would suggest that the most secure operating system provider is the one that ships a very similar version of its OS to both end-users and enterprise customers. Some Linux distributions fall into that category, some definitely not.

Also, keep in mind that some distros are run mostly by individual contributors not employed by any knowingly reputable company, so I’d stay away from those by default.

What’s this about?

Mine is the exact opposite, that people are generally kind and good once you remove some initial barriers that keep us apart. The older I get, the more love for people in general I feel.

So I guess we’re both mentally ill. High five!

I sense this^ reply is crap.

Hey, can’t go have coffee with you because the water’s been cut and I can’t shower after the big dump I took. No flushing either =D.

(that’s how it went in my mind)

And Xfce4 doing the light heavy lifting as usual.

Hmm I don’t know… Users usually don’t pay much attention to security. And the disclosure method actively hides it from the user until it no longer matters.

For providers, I understand, but can’t fully agree. I think it’s a misguided culture that creates busy-work at all levels.

Indeed, then it becomes a market and it incentivises more research on that area. Which I don’t think is helpful for anyone. It’s like your job description being “professional pessimist”. We could be putting that amount of effort into building more secure software to begin with.

That’s the fallacy I’m alluding to when I mention stuxnet. We have really well funded, well intentioned, intelligent people creating tools, techniques and overall knowledge in a field. Generally speaking, some of these findings are more makings then findings.

God, I hate security “researchers”. If I posted an article about how to poison everyone in my neighborhood, I’d be getting a knock on the door. This kind of shit doesn’t help anyone. “Oh but the state-funded attackers, remember stuxnet”. Fuck off.

It can be overwhelming, yes. But it’s not difficult. A bunch of dumb people go through it every day and they get to their destination just fine. =)

Don’t worry about anxiety, once you get there just focus on the next thing that needs to be done at any given moment and you’ll be ok. You’ll find that the brain gets into a problem-solving state and you’ll be landing in Korea before you even notice.

Glad you found it! Although I regret trying to help you because now my brain is forever tainted with this crap I had to listen to that has a similar cover art: https://music.apple.com/us/album/somebody-to-hold-single/1656102964

Sorry mate.

Writing like this.

Doesn’t make you look.

More knowledgeable.

This is a very complex topic that affects people’s entire lives, please don’t continue to make the mistake of thinking this is as black and white as “just take shrooms”.

How dare you!

I try to remove the extra comma.

Bear trap on their path, run back to cover.

Immutable vs Mutable

weird        normal

I’m sorry, but all of this was caused by your defensive and mildly aggressive response when he implied your patches were broken.

That whole PR was already confusing with all the rework and mentions of other people’s code and the inclusion of good code along with bad code.

When it was suggested that the foruns would be a good place I read it more like a “stop spamming us with experimental code”. Your suggestion to remove the experimental tag led them to think you were trying to shut them down and push stuff anyway.

This has all been a major misunderstanding. The fact that you took that so poorly (IMO, since you’re even posting about it here), means that maybe you should try to take a step back when this sort of thing happens, try to look at things from their perspective, and generally don’t assume ill intent.

Open source is hard because it is a communication heavy discipline and not everyone is used to that.