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Pick your battles

Pick your battles

Posted Jun 4, 2026 14:22 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Pick your battles by spacefrogg
Parent article: Open-source security is not a solo activity

> What good is the argument that your users would lose functionality if it means they would have to pay with security in return?

It's worth keeping in mind that "security" is not an absolute state here; it represents a continuum with an inverse relationship to utility, and the optimal point varies wildly from one user (and their threat model) to the next.


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Pick your battles

Posted Jun 8, 2026 9:02 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

True but the same applies to the set of useful features for any given application or library. Unless your code is incredibly simple very few users are going to use the entire set of available features so each feature is going to be useful only to a subset of your user base. That subset could be anywhere from below 1% to 100% for any given feature.


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