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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://fops.cloud/users/thcrt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thcrt</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StaleBos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StaleBos</a> should be illegal, just juke <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StarFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarFarming</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StarBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarBot</a> and assholes that simply <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28605#issuecomment-1958673396" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mark something as duplicate</a> just to make number go down!<ul><li>And yes I'm talking about <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MastodonEngineering</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> and I hope <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Gargron</a> gets his <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/devs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#devs</a> in order!</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GitHub</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Issues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Issues</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://sauropods.win/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mike</a> I think a lot of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metrics</a> re <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> and espechally <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> are bs.<ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinesOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinesOfCode</a> incentivize <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/messy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#messy</a> and convoluted source. (i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a>)</li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PullRequests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PullRequests</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MergeRequests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MergeRequests</a> incentivize a shitload of micro-corrections and "code cleanups" that aren't productive. (i.e. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Huawei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Huawei</a> doing to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a>)</li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Stars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stars</a> incentivize <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/StarFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarFarming</a>. </li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Pulls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pulls</a> incentivize <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Botting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botting</a>. </li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sponsors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sponsors</a> incentivize <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Smurfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smurfing</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sockpuppeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sockpuppeting</a>. with alt accounts.</li><li>same with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Contributor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Contributor</a> Numbers and Number of Contributions.</li><li>Frequency of Commits and changes incentivize constantly pushing empty commits as a sort-of-heartbeat.</li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Forks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Forks</a> doesn't say jack shite (in fact I know companies that do run a git mirror that regularly pulls repos from some public projects of mine.</li><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Donations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Donations</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funding</a> - if any exists at all - only supports massive projects and orgs and not necessarily key components that they too rely upon!</li></ul>

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