The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
What?
That’s a pretty bold claim to make.
Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
Most developers are on the spectrum
What? That’s a pretty bold claim to make. Got any sources on those numbers?
I just did some googling and the only number I could find came from stackoverflow showing some info on the people who use the site from a few years ago.
2.6% of the users who use use stackoverflow stated they were on the spectrum.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=announcement-banner&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019
Completely a meme answer. IT workers including software devs in the past were seen as nerdy loner types
I think most people who are “on the spectrum” are undiagnosed, this survey asked about diagnosed autism.
And that’s pretty close to the average in the population of 1 in 36, or 2.8%.