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All the fun vanishes.

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1. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 18:38 UTC] No.44369349[source]▶

Good. It was in the way.

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2. kiitos ◴[24 Jun 25 18:47 UTC] No.44369485[source]▶

In the way of what?

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3. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44369540[source]▶

Getting more bugs fixed.

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4. kiitos ◴[24 Jun 25 20:53 UTC] No.44370930{3}[source]▶

> Getting more bugs fixed.

OK.. but "getting more bugs fixed" isn't any kind of objective success metric for, well, anything, right?

It's fine if you want to use it as a KPI for your specific thing! But it's not like it's some global KPI for everyone?

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5. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44371391{4}[source]▶

It's very specifically the objective of a security bug bounty.

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