This is not a supply chain attack, it is sudden extreme enshitification. according to the article, the attacker also bought the GitHub repo

I don't see how buying the GitHub repo as well makes it not a supply chain attack but enshitification.

They bought into the supply chain. It's a supply chain attack.

Where would/should the mapping happen? Probably not the Set constructor. JSON.parseSet()?

JSON.parseSet = json => new Set(JSON.parse(json));
JSON.parseSet('["A", "B", "C", "A", "B"]'); // Set(3) [ "A", "B", "C" ]

/edit: JSON.parseMap()

JSON.parseMap = json => new Map(Object.entries(JSON.parse(json)));
JSON.parseMap('{"a":1,"b": 2}'); // Map { a → 1, b → 2 }

In my Firefox I get a NS_BINDING_ABORTED error on the Google Fonts font request.

And they didn't specify a font fallback, only their external web font. It would have worked if they had added monospace as a fallback.

Ignoring secondary email addresses, what was my primary [onlineaccount] E-Mail address has changed four times.

No readily-compilable project is still a worthwhile barrier. So I don't think it's a bad argument.

If it's about open-source licenses, it typically allows that kind of repackaging. Which is not the case for closed-source/proprietary.

no no no, this is the wrong way around

because sales and marketing sell it before it even exists

DuckDuckGo

I don't see how it solves the mentioned issues. Instead, federation introduces new issues of complexity, multi-layered moderation, and potential for distributed inefficiency, confusion, or more malicious attacks.

I think we can see on Lemmy some of the problems it introduces. But for an Encyclopedia, which is supposed to be a source of truth, I think it's much worse.

If you depend on instance admins as curators, it's not that different from Wikipedia roles, which at least has open governance and elections.

They say other projects didn't reach critical mass. I don't think spreading your contributors thin - even while connecting them to some dynamic degree - is how you reach critical mass.

Is it because c++ devs need half their day for recovering from the trauma of reading and writing c++? /s

I scale by dropping requests

Turned into a skeleton in 10 minutes

The site name’s a play on “The Onion” so it’s gotta be satire, right? I couldn’t find an about page to confirm.

Yes, it's satire.

The page is run by one author https://www.theolognion.com/about and no description or goal described

Runs on "substack" platform (standard software)

The story reads like a story, and the mentioned company does not exist