A couple of weeks ago, some dingbat of an AUR admin orphaned a package of mine, ignoring the comment I left on it and my post to the mailing list.
Even though this package, to my knowledge, didn’t end up being attacked, I wonder if this was a potential precursor to the recent attack…
Isn’t that Franz Schubert’s The Trout?
Fundamentally, rules regarding sex derive from biological characteristics on one hand and rules regarding social interaction on the other. The joke here is treating them like a video game, where the lead designer can decide to add or remove gameplay features if they think it will make the game better (or make them more money). Thus, this complex construct, one that society has been refining over millennia of shifting priorities while our understanding of the human mind is evolving, is reduced to the whims of one person.
Naming Jacob Batalon the “CEO of Sex” (equivalent to the lead designer role in this “sex as a video game” construct) adds another level to it, as one’s initial expectation for someone with that title is a classically handsome man, which Jacob Batalon – his other qualities notwithstanding – is most certainly not, and never claimed to be.
I can’t make you find it funny, but I hope it makes sense why some of us do…?
How the hell could they even make a final cut when they didn’t have razors?
I’m sure the lyric “shit the bed again, typical” resonated with him very strongly.
You are missing the Neuzeil at the end of the Schnur.
It wasn’t removed, it was marked as orphaned, which means anyone can take over and mess with it, lowering the bar for supply chain attacks.
If another user had said “I can take care of this long-term, gimme”, I’d had handed it over. Instead, some self-important dingbat with too many privileges decided to mass-mark all packages with an “outdated” flag beyond a certain age as orphaned, then ignored my mailing list post.
For what it’s worth, a distro package maintainer’s inability to update a package to a newer upstream version does not necessarily lead to a package being removed. Debian and Ubuntu kept shipping an ancient version of
freetdssometime in the mid-2010s and the package maintainer was incommunicado.