Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

@mcnees @gvwilson ugghhhh. Thanks for that additional context

@mcnees @gvwilson worth noting that while IMC is obviously a world-famous shitlord, Zach is also a friend of Project Veritas (that is who he delivered his whistleblowing to) and is in the torturous and interminable process of pivoting from “insufferable tech bro” to “alt right grifter” so this interaction wasn’t exactly organic in the first place. Like he is kind of playing the straight man in this skit but it *is* a skit

@luis_in_brief just mentally visualizing the "we're 'giving back'" free square in the middle of the bingo card

@chrisjrn i am going to do both (somehow it seems I have given you a half a dozen email addresses so I need to clean that up a bit)

@chrisjrn oh some of these are coming from RSS aggregators that deliver emails. I live in a hell of my own design, is what I am saying

@chrisjrn it’s possible that there’s only those two, I the task I took down for this involves several different events :-)

I really want to stress that everything I have said thus far about open source sustainability and the origins of the #xv problem are not *solutions*. My proposals are *mitigations*. This is not a problem that can be “solved”. It is a complex of world-historic economic allocation problems that needs to be addressed in the midst of a ton of other parallel and interacting crises. None of these activities will solve the problem, but we must do something — a lot of somethings, actually — regardless.

Anybody proposing an SBOM or a scorecard here is fundamentally unserious though please just ignore them

Anyone telling you that their product or service would have for sure stopped JiaT75 is bullshitting you. We can just make it gradually harder for this type of adversary, and this particular adversary appears to be extremely well-resourced, and they in particular will probably just try another vector.

*That said*, the vulnerability in the ecosystem caused by the chronic undervaluing of this type of infrastructure work is HUGE and can be easily improved by very modest investment.