The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
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A satirical listicle presenting ten elaborate fictional conspiracies about open source software, including claims that Dependabot is a surveillance program, node_modules is a distributed ledger, the left-pad incident was a crypto liquidity operation, Kubernetes was deliberately made complex to create jobs, Git was extracted from Finnish military software, and that only 14 people secretly maintain all major open source projects. Written in a deadpan investigative style with recurring motifs like the number eleven and a Reston, Virginia address, the piece is clearly humorous fiction dressed up as conspiracy theory.
Table of contents
10. Dependabot is a surveillance program #9. The Dockerfile syntax is deliberately broken #8. left-pad was removed as part of a crypto liquidity operation #7. node_modules is a distributed ledger #6. The Rust borrow checker is a loyalty mechanism #5. Jia Tan was a committee #4. Kubernetes was a jobs program #3. Git was not written in two weeks #2. The core-js maintainer discovered something #1. There are only 14 maintainers #Sort: