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by dogleash 1344 days ago
> It's 2022

So someone else should have done it for you by now?

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I'm sure you have an excuse for not doing it personally. Just as I'm sure the person who you've mentally assigned responsibility has at least as good of an excuse too.

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> Be the change you want to see in the world.

I have made dozens of commits to MINIX3, including a brand-new ISO 9660 file system implementation (https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...).

I have made more than a hundred commits to SerenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commits?author=boricj).

Just because I deplore the general state of security in mainstream operating systems doesn't mean that I demand that someone else does something about it for free.

I'm not paid to fix security bugs in the Linux kernel, do you expect me to fix these myself for free just because you want to? No one is entitled to my own free time spent hacking on random stuff.