For those who've never heard of him, Andrew Tridgell is not just some kid cosplaying as a programmer, he's an open source legend. Apart from rsync he created Samba. Oh, and apparently he annoyed Linus Torvalds into inventing git lmao

Sure, it looks like he's made a blunder or two but let's not dogpile on him please. This is Fuck AI, not Fuck People.

From their blog:

Now regarding YellowKey, lots of you are wondering how does one even find such backdoor ?

I'll tell you how, it took me more time trying to get it to work than the amount of sleep I had in two years combined. No AI involved, no help in any shape or form. I could have made some insane cash selling this but no amount of money will stand between me and my determination against Microsoft.

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I can't wait when I will be allowed to disclose the full story, I think people will find my crashout very reasonable and it definitely won't be a good look for Microsoft.

Looking forward to the full story.

He probably also wants these removed:

Just letting you know so you don't accidentally post them.

The project's issue tracker has been pretty wild recently, for example https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929

The jury considers this idea pog.

I don't have many nice things to say about Apple but that guy is a legend

sex -d > default.sex

"sex minus the d is greater than default sex"

The full hearing has some gems such as Catarina Vieira drowning the EU Parliament in gamer memes

Meanwhile, God who deliberately gave us a spare eye for this exact reason

I will change my walking route to innocently walk past them and steal another look.

Yeah that's something you should probably stop doing. People notice, and it might not look as innocent as you might think. Many among them will act as if they didn't notice in order to avoid a confrontation. Just stay on your route please.

"It's not a vulnerability, no I'm not crying"

buzz kill

According to this source the guy is called Philip Rebohle and he wrote a translation layer called DXVK that lets you run DirectX stuff on Vulkan.

Can we please not use the terms 'conspiracy' and 'conspiracy theory' interchangeably?

Let the homeless move in and use the hardware as they see fit. They deserve dignity and epic LAN parties

So we're just making up countries now?

From what I've heard, they are

What your comment says about you:

You are a nerd