Cold War Update SizeĬold War Season 3 Overview SEASON THREE BEGINS
The update includes early access to just some of the Season 3 content until the full season begins.īlack Ops Cold War Season 3 will include 2 new MP maps, new Zombies Outbreak location, new Operators, new Battle Pass, and more content to come.
Another event to touch entrenched open source code, was Shell Shock, which was a vulnerability in Bash's interpreter.This new patch update, version 1.16, includes the Season 3 content, with Season 3 officially starting on April 21 at 9PM PT / April 22 at 12AM ET / 5AM UK / 6AM CEST. So much so that the OpenBSD project decided to fork and refactor it. It surprised many to learn of the state that codebase was in and that it had a lack of maintainers. For example, HeartBleed, a bug found in the TLS implementation of OpenSSL. Bugs exists and no amount of coverage testing is going to find them all (Have you every reached 100% coverage on a substantial project?). Awesome as these devs are, there is only so much a few people can do. These secure services are really at the front lines in defending privacy on the net. A concerning notion is that in a time when privacy concerns - brought about by government and overreaching commercial entities - is the fact that many secure services are maintained by a handful of developers.
GnuPG is only one example of backbone software projects that comprise the core of the internet's ecosystem. The largest donations were made by the Free Software Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative ($60K), Facebook ($50K), and Stripe ($50K). That day over $200K in donations were pledged to keep the project alive. That blog post was made back in December but then one day the following February, word finally got out. But when GnuPG curator, Werner Koch, wrote a blog post breaking down the costs of maintaining that project, he received a large response. The showcase was not anything special, it was just a blog post and I only learned about it through a Slashdot RSS. The story of an open source project was showcased to the world. This topic was inspired by an event that occurred February 5, 2015. They may receive funding through the Free Software Foundation and donations, but when was the last time you paid any money or gave anything back to the developers of that editor, that library, that module that you always turn to? Inspiration When you think about it, how many of the open source projects that you use all the time are not heavily funded operations? Popular tools like Vim/Emacs and tools like sed to niche languages like Tcl or Lua are all entrenched and still active. But quite a few are just put out there and sometimes they find their way into the tool boxes of devs and designers. Some open source projects find funding through sales of support, licenses, and/or hosting. But these code bases are the building blocks of the net the "dependencies" in our apps and OSs (see the EULA of OS X and you'll see open source projects listed). Many are known only to those that look under the hood.
A lot of these projects live in the background.
Time, effort, innovation and labor go into developing the open source projects that we use and often rely on.