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The JavaScript ecosystem is basically a game of "how many days until someone sneaks malicious code into a package with 50 million weekly downloads." The counter reads zero because, well, it's always zero. NPM supply chain attacks have become so frequent that tracking them is like counting grains of sand on a beach—pointless and depressing. The meme uses the "Days Since Last Accident" workplace safety sign format, except instead of workplace injuries, we're tracking the inevitable compromise of some random package you installed three years ago and forgot about. The smug satisfaction on the face? That's the attacker who just pushed version 2.0.1 with a "minor bug fix" that also happens to exfiltrate your environment variables. Between left-pad incidents, colors/faker drama, and various typosquatting attempts, the Node.js dependency tree has become a trust exercise with strangers on the internet. Sleep tight knowing your production app depends on 1,247 packages maintained by volunteers who may or may not have enabled 2FA.