Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it
I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
An interesting read in general but the writers proclaiming themselves ethical hackers in the opening paragraph only to turn into wittle birthday boys as soon as it turned out their uh experiment caused major disruptions was mildly off putting.
Until I got to the end, I actually assumed “we’re ethical hackers” meant that they were aging X-ers who’d been aspiring to some Cult of the Dead Cow shit since they were script kiddies in the 90s, not “we’re literally children”. I legit didn’t realize the Youth still talked that way; it’s off putting but almost reassuringly anarchist. Be gay, do NPM crimes, kids!
They definitely overreacted to github’s scold, though.
I’d want to see what happens if they take github to task on parts of that response, tbh - too many companies get away with that kind of overblown bullshit (usually because legal team asymmetry)