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Re: So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

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Post by slowmotiony »

lxe wrote: post #51
BadRed wrote: post #27

I recognize his challenges, but not sure if I can look past his victim blaming and "both sides bad" war rhetoric.

What would you say if you were in Russia? Would you publicly pour out your complete thoughts, whatever they may be, in a popular blog post with your name signed underneath? With an unfunded OSS project, a family to support and criminal history? Don't forget, you can't just "say stuff" in most corners of the world.

1. Return to Russia because things are cheaper so you will have more money, nevermind the whole war crimes and genocide thing

2. Russia puts you in prison, you dont get a fair trial and you don't have freedom of speech

3. No profit

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Post by newswasboring »

slowmotiony wrote: post #167
armini wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maintainers like Denis shouldn't be asking for donations, they should be sponsored the same way Nike sponsors athletes. If you're a burnt out open source maintainer or know someone who is, I'd love to talk to you. My job is to help create awareness about the issue with companies that depend on your package. I reached out to Denis because we all know he deserves better. Appreciate any leads you could additionally shar…

I don't know, I don't think Nike will sponsor athletes who, despite the war, returned to Russia solely due to better financial prospects.

While your argument is kinda bad, its also incorrect. They moved to russia before the current war. Also its their home country, the world isn't progressive enough that this isn't every immigrant's default choice.

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Post by another_kel »

postsantum wrote: post #103
netsharc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK: technically only a limited amount of companies and people are sanctioned, but the sanction list includes most if not all Russian banks... So I think Patreon, etc, or their banks would be scared about transferring money to his bank account. I wonder if external banking is possible: a Russian goes to a supermarket in Russia, he buys food, he pays by transferring money from his e.g. Swiss bank account to the supe…

Visa and MC issued in Russia work just fine, no need for external banking

They don't work «just fine». They only work within russia. You can't pay for any foreign stuff wit it, you can't even pay in the app store.

People who can afford it literally travel to Belarus\Kazakhstan for a weekend just to get a debit card that works worldwide.

Re: So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

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Post by kypro »

jeswin wrote: post #109
kypro wrote: post #106

I always heard people talk about how "open source is broken", but I'm honestly in shock after reading this. Is this normal? That one guy can contribute code that is used on thousands of the top websites worldwide and not one of the numerous multi-billion dollar companies that use his code are even willing to donate an amount equivalent to an average developer's salary? I mean, how is this that possible? It's not like…

> I mean, how is this that possible? The Node.JS library ecosystem (for better or worse) is modeled as small libraries which do only one thing, and often have dozens of dependencies. And those in turn, have their own dependencies. So when you import a library, you're bringing in a lot of other libraries as well. Some large companies have stringent audits (for licenses etc), but most care (or are aware) only about the…

I completely understand this reasoning for smaller companies, but a company like Spotify will care deeply about the dependencies in their project. Just because core-js is a dependency of a dependency simply doesn't matter and if anything, makes it even more essential. Unless they're extremely incompetent, any 3rd party code that's to be deployed to their entire user base is presumably being reviewed in detail.

And I guess I'm not even sure I buy the argument that most developers don't know about core-js. I know I'd be extremely concerned if I was hiring an experienced frontend dev who didn't know what core-js was. Anyone who's thought about browser capability before should have had to think about polyfills, and naturally their use of core-js. It also comes up a lot when trying to optimise bundle size given the size of core-js.

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Post by chao- »

sgammon wrote: post #174
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #140

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The court documents on that case are publicly available if you're willing to look for them (and can read Russian). I haven't read everything, but I didn't see anything contradicting his side of the story.

he said he was "driving home at 3am," you know, as one does, and two girls were "crawling on the highway." i am honestly not sure i've ever heard a less believable story

I have been driving home after midnight, coming from my where my parents live, a long distance away, and encountered a man who had climbed up into the elevated highway. It was straight and well-lit, but the best I could make out was that he was running at cars wielding a cardboard box (?). I began to decelerate and moved into the lane furthest from him, at the time, and after another car in front of me passed him, he moved into my lane. I'm still braking to slow down, and I change lanes to avoid him again, swerving and praying the lights in my rear view are slowing too and don't hit me as I try to avoid this man.

As I pass him, I manage to be one lane to his left, and he makes a lunge to try and jump in front of my vehicle. With some frequency, to this day I wonder how fucked I would have been if he succeeded in jumping in front of my car. The story I tell myself is that he was mentally unwell and thought he was heroically "tilting at windmills". It is more likely he was belligerently drunk, or was suicidal and wanted some help in it.

I don't know what makes something believable or unbelievable in your mind, but these are the details of an almost-incident that happened to me.

Re: So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

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Post by armini »

pabs3 wrote: post #161
armini wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maintainers like Denis shouldn't be asking for donations, they should be sponsored the same way Nike sponsors athletes. If you're a burnt out open source maintainer or know someone who is, I'd love to talk to you. My job is to help create awareness about the issue with companies that depend on your package. I reached out to Denis because we all know he deserves better. Appreciate any leads you could additionally shar…

Edit: I see you work for thanks.dev, which doesn't seem like it would cover the projects I mention below. I leave my original comment in case anyone else is interested in sponsoring the things I mention. I'd like to find sponsors for a few non-web-related projects. In particular the Linux USB Gadgets userspace stack (libusbgx/gt/gadgetd/etc), a library for the Microsoft PST email format (libpst) and a tool for runnin…

Thanks Paul, yes I do work for thanks.dev & non-web-projects are on our roadmap. Let me know if you’d like to be a early pilot user when we’re ready for testing…

Re: So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

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Post by jmplng »

aembleton wrote: post #168
querulous wrote: post #143

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it works fine and there's someone happy to do it for free. why would anyone try to compete with it?

To mitigate the risk of a supply chain attack.

If you care, review and pin. Way easier than building a “competitor” to something there’s clearly no money in.

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Post by postsantum »

another_kel wrote: post #183
postsantum wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Visa and MC issued in Russia work just fine, no need for external banking

They don't work «just fine». They only work within russia. You can't pay for any foreign stuff wit it, you can't even pay in the app store. People who can afford it literally travel to Belarus\Kazakhstan for a weekend just to get a debit card that works worldwide.

Only a small fraction of russians needs to pay online for foreign stuff. Besides that, UnionPay cards are available, you can use them to withdraw money in most countries and shop online sometimes
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