@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
Post #4161046
2026-07-28 02:19 UTC
@d1@autistics.life
100% agreed this is an absurd project, but on the other hand...at some point I think there is an argument to be made that the risk reduction obtained from removing hundreds of thousands of lines of code from a code base outweighs the effort to track other fixes...
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@alyx@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 10:28
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social @d1@autistics.life While I do agree with that, the reason none of the other forks do this is maintainability. Resources in these forks are generally rare, most of them just about to keep themselves alive, and if Mozilla pushes a Chemspill release now, you don't really have the time to debug why your 40MB patch file doesn't work anymore. So my trust in this approach is kinda limited at the moment.
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@ZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social 2026-07-28 02:55
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social @d1@autistics.life Dumb question: could this be turned into a shitton of ifdef’s so it can be upstreamed? It at least makes the patch smaller in size