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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Sep \ parent \ on: If we just removed the JPEG magic number header would y’all stop complaining? bitdevs
It's hard for me to tell definitively what the debate is about. You say "The debate is about whether Core should be able to NOT maintain..." but I'd characterize what I've heard as "Core should continue maintaining...". I'd certainly say they have no obligation to maintain anything in particular.
The argument, from what I've seen, that they should (not "must") continue maintaining these knobs and dials is that what they do will become default policy across the network (unless people abandon Core's configuration) and there clearly is not anything like community consensus on this issue yet.
Political fights over "default settings" are so interesting to me.
On the one hand, it seems silly because everyone has the option to turn off the defaults.
On the other hand, the default setting is an incredibly powerful behavioral lever.
Maybe I just hate people.
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It seems especially relevant when both sides ostensibly want more bitcoiners to run their own nodes. That will inevitably mean more nodes run by less technically knowledgeable people who just accept the default settings.
My Spidey-Sense is definitely going off with how the Core folks are behaving, but I don't have the technical savvy to rely on more than my intuition.
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