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i think some twitter algorithm change or something has caused there to be a permanent “debate” about memory safety in c and it's revealed a lot of people i previously thought i respected to be pretty unserious

the recent xz backdoor has had a similar effect

hey, “POWER! GS” is out! it's a collab album of music written for roland gs midi modules, featuring many incredible tracks by very talented people!! (it also has a track by me ^^;)

please listen to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3KEwceJTs

a ton of vpn services must be owned or effectively controlled by intelligence agencies. they would be very useful for masking their own operations, right? potentially unmasking others' is just a bonus

interesting analysis: the xz attacker might live in eastern europe https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and

$ brew info xz
==> xz: stable 5.6.1 (bottled)
General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/
/usr/local/Cellar/xz/5.6.1 (166 files, 2.6MB) *
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-03-13 at 11:15:23
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/x/xz.rb
License: 0BSD and LGPL-2.1-or-later and GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-or-later
==> Analytics
install: 358,082 (30 days), 768,551 (90 days), 3,042,714 (365 days)
install-on-request: 83,030 (30 days), 171,762 (90 days), 523,672 (365 days)
build-error: 1,415 (30 days)

😱

by age 30 you should have spent years contributing to an open source project in your free time, building trust and becoming a maintainer, and then have skilfully inserted a highly obfuscated backdoor that successfully made its way into multiple linux distributions

you can't say The Czech Republic or Turkey any more. because of woke

type of girl who tries to cause exactly the right international economic upsets as to ensure all currencies' exchange rates are perfect decimal orders of magnitude. no more 1.2 or 1.5 or 3. only 1, 10, 100, or 1000

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beauty is everywhere if you look for it