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.

  • @deathmetal27
    39•1 month ago

    Imagemagick.

    Every website that supports avatar images and has multiple sizes of the avatars uses imagemagick.

    Another one is OpenSSL.

    • @andrewth09
      15•1 month ago

      I like the imagemagick .desktop file that is always created when you install the package. It opens up a really terrible and dated paint-like program that no one ever uses.