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.

  • @knexcar
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    201 month ago

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

    • @ClamDrinker
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      81 month ago

      Wrong Linus, That’s Linus Sebastian.

        • @ClamDrinker
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          41 month 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.