Need a break before I attempt to write my weekly column for #TheCrux. Today has been catching up on a lot of stuff so I'm not sure what I feel up to writing about.

quite interesting from #TheCrux "#OpenSource software isn’t quite a public good, but more of a common pool resource. The literature tends to categorise goods into four main types, based on two axes: how difficult it is to exclude people from accessing the good, and how much damage is done to the good if more people access it."

#TheCrux: "There was a lot of news about Amazon removing its #JustWalkOut feature from its grocery stores. It turns out the ‘AI’ was actually a bunch of foreign workers surveilling customers over in-store video. No word on whether they had to share a trenchcoat or not." @daedalus we'll probably never find out ;D

Righto, latest issue of #TheCrux is scheduled. Subscribe to get it: https://pivotnine.com/newsletter/

Got KubeCon news, antitrust updates (and a good long read about the history of tech antitrust), data breach things, and lots more.

Also a proposal for what I have dubbed OpenFunding. Read about it and call me a heretic! Spread the word of DevSecFunOps! Get mad and red and nude online.

@picardtips @daedalus this speaks very much to your #TheCrux post "On Maintenance"

nice write up in #TheCrux thanks @daedalus

"​Federated social media software #Mastodon had an impersonation vulnerability that was patched last week. More than half the instance admins patched it in less than 24 hours. I enjoyed the comment from Elliott Wilkes, chief technology officer at Advanced Cyber Defence Systems, saying “there's just not the same investment in security because there's not massive revenue supporting the platform, and each owner of an instance has to perform security management on their own” as I look wistfully in the direction of Microsoft and its massively lucrative portfolio of security binfires."
Bugs were reported by German #pentesting outfit #Cure53 during a #Mozilla-requested audit.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/critical_vulnerability_in_mastodon_is/ #fediverse #socksup

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