alt Hacker NewsNot everyone has the same update cycle. That's not free-riding. The framing around not being on the latest version as irresponsible doesn't hold up.
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It feels like the argument being made is you're a freerider if you don't adhere to the same million miles per hour frenzy that got us into this problem in the first place. The author probably also feels deploying from private repos with OS dependencies is wrong because that's the domain of the ultra-rich 1%
Right.
Not to mention the (apparently not obvious?) option of detaching review- and release versions. We still look at the diff of latest versions of dependencies before they reach our codebase. That seems like the most responsible.
Besides, why stop there? Everyone installing packaged builds from NPM are already freeriding from those installing sources straight from Github releases. smh
Yeah this. If I don't buy the new iPhone XX.0 but instead wait for XX.1, which could include software and hardware fixes, does that make me a free rider?