the only conclusion i get from this article is that using WordPress is unsafe; just like using Node, Python, Arch Linux, and any platform whose package manager allows community sourced packages.
i find it hilarious how no one has "left a trace" in this post's comment section yet.
on the other hand, i think having to register an account on an unknown service (i don't know what will Discus do with my data) just to leave a comment is something the average reader (including myself) will not do; this being the exception, not the norm. in fact, i used a throwaway email for creating this account.
but i can also see how hard it would be to moderate an account-less comment section.
~~so, i will invite anyone who reads my comment to, instead of only replying here, forwarding any replies to any of my contact methods available on my website: https://jotalea.com.ar/~~ ignore this part, i do read HN often, so i will likely see the replies.
a couple years ago i read a blog post about someone talking about how fragmentation in word processors work, explaining that most word processors started as "this software does only what i need, and will not have X feature that Y has because it's annoying/bloated" [0].
to paraphrase what he said, "instead of K9s, PostgreSQL, Redis, Oauth, WebSocket Gateway, Service Discovert; we're going to use git, html and json", I had a panic attack as soon as I read that.
oof, a ton of them, here are a few that passed my minimum quality standards and made public: a video compression service (inspired by 8mb.video) [0], a music player that gets songs from a specific repository for Geometry Dash [1], a screenshot tool "for crappy OSes" (windows) [2], spaghetti C code that prints "i love you" to stdout [3], more spaghetti code [4], and a speedhack cheat for singleplayer games on Linux [5]
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