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• v1605@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  qz.com/…/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by…

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  • Feirdro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was excellent, but conveniently left off any discussion that npm can “un-un-publish” a programmer’s code against their wishes, and apparently without repercussions?

    Fuck npm, I guess.

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely they can un-unpublish since the programmer has given everyone the rights to use his code wherever they want, with its open license. Npm can actually use the older version of the code and give it to everyone. Its actually a good thing

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      • Feirdro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right, the “open” part of open source.

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    • DarkenLM@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank fuck for that, cause if they didn't faker.js and node-ipc would have caused a lot of trouble, with the developers adding malware to a new version and later deleting the entire packages, breaking tons of projects. And those were everything but small packages.

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    • Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All for the greater good, especially if it’s the choice between one guy’s desire to nuke their own code VS tens / hundreds of thousands of projects that depend on it.

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  • johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was a rather nice read :) thank you!

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  • milkjug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing this. I learn something new everyday, much appreciated.

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