Maybe we should start a gofundme/kickstarter to buy a load of stars on a repo that simply says “don’t use GitHub stars as a source of trust”?

[andrewnez@mastodon.social]

Maybe we should start a gofundme/kickstarter to buy a load of stars on a repo that simply says “don’t use GitHub stars as a source of trust”?

[ehmatthes@fosstodon.org]

@andrewnez "GitHub stars are good for measuring the number of stars a project on GitHub has."

(I should have attributed this to @webology)

[webology@mastodon.social]

@ehmatthes @andrewnez Sounds like something I would say.

[ehmatthes@fosstodon.org]

@webology @andrewnez I could tag you every time I repeat that quote, but I have too much respect for your timeline.

[badsamurai@infosec.exchange]

@andrewnez or the green “verified” that’s just a txt record to any domain no one actually mouses over to view and is unavailable in the org endpoint api.

#github

[webology@mastodon.social]

@ehmatthes @andrewnez No worries. It's pure joy every time I see it quoted.

[manland@fosstodon.org]

@andrewnez You had a typo.