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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • This isn’t really a security issue as much as it is a DDOS issue.

    Imagine you own a brick and mortar store. And periodically one thousand fucking people sprint into your store and start recording the UPCs on all the products, knocking over every product in the store along the way. They don’t buy anything, they’re exclusively there to collect information from your store which they can use to grift investors and burn precious resources, and if they fuck your shit up in the process, that’s your problem.

    This bot just sits at the door and ensures the people coming in there are actually shoppers interested in the content of some items of your store.



  • Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building block for the achievement of digital sovereignty.

    However, the work done by thousands of volunteers for this goal is not recognised as volunteering, neither fiscally nor in terms of funding. This imbalance between societal importance and legal status has to be corrected.

    Therefore, as an active contributor to Open-Source-Projects, I call for work on Open-Source to be recognised as volunteering for the common good – of equal rank as volunteer work for associations, youth work or ambulance service.