Nick Holland, 07 Aug 2016 23:36: > > Is this http://[bullshit deleted]/openbsd the official OpenBSD github site? > > I find this part terrifying. > > Nowhere on the OpenBSD website mentions github as anything official. So > you just assumed that the seven letters, "openbsd", in that order, makes > it officially part of the project? No. Examples of this will be found > all over the Internet.
i am confused about the shock and terror. i don't have code on github, but through ports we are all github users in one way or another. github is popular and everyone and his dog has either their official repo or a mirror on there. so while taking github links at face value is not correct, it happens all the time and until something else replaces it, it will get only worse. and that brings me to my second point. impersonating projects/persons on popular services (twitter, etc) is as old as domain squating and while it's ok for the openbsd project to totally ignore these filthy nasty new age services, another low friction and low time investment approach could have been to proactively take these usernames/urls and put placeholders or links to the official project site. -f -- the greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
