@ben is it?

Was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, killed in a US-Israeli bombing attack on 28 Feb 2026?

#EvanPoll #poll

I *hate* "why not just" as a reply.

"Why not just do it this other way instead?"

It implies that the other way is faster, easier, or otherwise better, without actually providing any evidence to that effect.

The person who made the original proposal has to research what those advantages might be and see if they actually apply to the current situation. This is information that the replier supposedly already has.

If you know it's better, say why.

@Edent I have not, but I wish social networks were more like this.

@benbrown well, I stand corrected. The field is wide open! Although this Ben Brown (blogger) fellow sounds interesting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Brown

@benbrown so, there *has* to be some kind of shoe or tap dance step or bowler hat called a "Ben Brown" already?

@dneary

What kind of fruit do you imagine davenearia would be?

@maj

@james I would buy that cereal

Which of these new kinds of food would you want named after you?

#EvanPoll #poll

@ted so, what are the consequences of not putting any time into things?

Is getting paid the only reason people do things?

Why do developers make and maintain Open Source software, anyway?

Could they have different goals? How much time should they put into the project to achieve those different goals?

@malwareminigun the question is, how much is "very little"?

@joergi @dannycolin @preinheimer I know that `npm` has a feature where you can mark a package as deprecated or unmaintained. I think there are other systems for doing this.

@tony why do they want to? At least in part for it to be useful, for at least some developers, right?

@larsmb @tony it's not my fault that you didn't think about the question very hard.

Is your software Open Source?

@shtrom so, if it's not because they owe somebody something, why do volunteer maintainers do the work in the first place? And if they do have a goal, how much time do they have to put in to reach it? Are there different amounts of time for different goals?

@larsmb

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#should

@tony so, how much time do you think it takes for maintainers to keep software in a state where it still works for you?

@troglobit @preinheimer @joergi because I like thinking about hard topics. You don't have to, though!

@troglobit @joergi would you continue to use software that has unpatched security alerts?

@larsmb and you'll keep using their unmaintained software, full of known security bugs, regardless?