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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ronald is ~~Linus Torvald~~ zloirock, and his contribution is immeasurable.

Edit: you can see in the replies to this comment that Linus was a poor example. There are people with an almost equivalent contribution to the digital world who have seen almost no recognition at all.

[-] knexcar@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Isn’t Linus pretty famous for his tech tips YouTube channel?

[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Wrong Linus, That's Linus Sebastian.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago
[-] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

You'd be surprised how many programmers don't know who Torvalds is if you ask them. They might be aware of his impact or some of the things he did, but the name Linus will not ring a bell for them. So yeah, might be a whoosh, might not be, but there is enough plausible naiveness imo.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

One can only hope

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