The European Correspondent is a legitimate, though young, news organization. I can recommend their newsletter, they write about a nice mix of topics from all across Europe.
As an arch user, I would always skim the PKGBUILD file of AUR packages to see if they install the software they claim to install from official sources and if there's something obviously fishy.
Yeah, I've prevented this locally too by never building such a platform in the first place, always the best solution!
Jokes aside and just in case, you do realize ports and AUR have two very different models? Ports is more similar to the official Arch repositories, which obviously doesn't suffer from the same problem, and AFAIK, there is no BSD-equivalent of AUR.
BSD is cool and useful for lots of reasons, but comparisons based on misunderstandings helps no one :)
There is pkgsrc-wip which is similar but run by one person who does at least some checking up on new users. AUR is just gigantic in comparison; pkgsrc-wip has about as many total packages as AUR has updated in the past week.
But why check the user instead of the actual code? That's like asking people to checking the GitHub user before they install a program from GitHub, instead of the program itself! Ultimately, the PKGBUILD is the only thing that matters here, not the author or how many others reviewed it.
That isn't what I ment, I should have said that the person who runs pkgsrc-wip helps submitters get the package correct (which can be more challenging than PKGBUILD since it is a more strict system and unless it is a Linux only package is more likely to need patches). Thinking about it more it isn't really the same as AUR since as I understand it packages without issues are likely to get into pkgsrc proper in most cases so it is mostly WIP as the name suggests (although not entirely as I recall, at least last time I used it). So you might be correct that there isn't really anything similar in the BSD world.
It's quite common historically. The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato looks at this phenomenon of companies privatizing the benefits of publicly funded research and, she argues, not giving enough in return
The economist Mariana Mazzucato has some eye opening books about innovation and the role of governments. They are eye opening and dispel a lot of myths
That probably has more to do with who immigrates to Switzerland. I don't now the numbers, but people who immigrate to Switzerland is probably fairly well educated and generally pretty well of.
Denmark is still a fairly high-trust society, not to the level of Switzerland or Japan. We're seeing certain items in supermarkets being locked away or chipped to prevent theft. Now that's not just because of immigrants, Danes steal from the supermarket as well, because prices on many items are increasing rapidly.
Switzerland's population would make it one of the biggest cities in the world, more than double the population of Los Angeles, and more than New York City. Neither of which could be counted as high trust.
The city of LA is just there for administrative purposes. People who live in "Burbank" or "Pasadena" are seen as living in "Los Angeles" by most people outside the region.
You can tell where the city ends very easily. There are well-defined boundaries. Government statistics take that into account. Here's the census page for the city of Los Angeles, which lists a population just under 4 million: https://data.census.gov/profile/Los_Angeles_city,_California...
I think you might appreciate the book The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow [1]. They dive into the archaeological record and argue precisely that: that the common story of how civilization developed is very wrong, and that complex societies existed before the rise of agriculture, longer than is usually assumed. These findings at Göbekli Tepe appear very much in line with their theory.
