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> The suggestion that paying OSS maintainers is a solution really misses some major issues.

As a maintainer, the biggest major issue is that I don't want their money.


As an OSS maintainer, I'd be happy to receive a living wage for my work. But I wouldn't want all the negative externalities that come when money is introduced to the ecosystem. Nor would I want a change in expectations for what I deliver.


> But I wouldn't want all the negative externalities that come when money is introduced...

Even before you get to the broader ecosystem, I wouldn't want daily standups, weekly 1:1s, on-call rotations, weekly business reviews, monthly business reviews, quarterly reports, "emergency" all-hands meetings, mandatory compliance training, constant IT churn, zero-based budgeting, fighting for headcount, constant interviewing, fighting for management buy-in (and against active attempts at management sabotage), managing up, managing down, peer reviews, performance reviews, promotion boards...

I also don't want to spend six months negotiating a contract, sign an NDA, disclose tax records to prove I have other clients, maintain liability insurance, and etc., for one week's worth of work, during which I must track every fraction of an hour and itemize everything I do, followed by two months of dealing with some archaic billing system and another three months wondering if accounts payable will ever actually send the money.

I just want to apply my decades of domain experience in a community of deserved trust and feel like someone actually gives a damn.


The quilt patch series comes from the time when I was basing my work on the Debian version, it was easier for me to follow upstream than rebasing branches.

Most patches are now merged into master, only some unfinished work is still in that series. I should update the docs.


And as my browser does not automatically follow any redirects I'm left with some text in a language I don't understand.


There is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org


Here is my fork of w3m, which is not dead:

https://w3m-pager.org


> Text fragments are currently supported in all the browsers.

All meaning all the browsers listed in the linked table. These may be the major browsers, but not all of them.


Brave has this feature disable due to (rather minor, imho) privacy concerns.

https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/17994


That is an interesting issue (detect differing resource loading based on the document jump) that affects regular fragments as well, but the idea is that particularly sensitive pages would know not to have fragment targets in the page but couldn't prevent text fragments. The solution given (deterministic loading independent of jump target) seems like a good idea to work towards but meanwhile I agree it is a minor concern and pages should not avoid reasonable navigation due to this issue. Particularly since there are often other ways of getting the same information with the same type of network analysis.


By market share, that table contains all the major browsers and more.


Why don't you read your local man pages? w3m comes with w3mman to do so.

With local man pages I know at least that the man page matches my installed version.


> An attacker can use this vulnerability to obtain root on OpenBSD 7.4 and 7.5.

Ouch! And this all due to unsanitized user input. I really would have expected better from OpenBSD in 2023. I mean I would expect better from everyone but especially from OpenBSD.


It's still there and it works quite well for HN because it can display the spacer gif, so you get indentation for the threads.


After reading the website and also trying the mentioned `ssh pr.pico.sh help` I still don't know what exactly to do to use this.

> 4. External contributor submits a PR to SSH server But how? That numbered list let me think of that old cartman profit meme.

I like the idea, but I'm not convinced yet, that this is really easier than just sending an email by `git request-pull`.


Thank you for that feedback, I removed a couple important pieces from the repo readme that I think would answer your questions around usage. I'll add them into the main site.


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