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.

  • @Ziglin
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    14 months ago

    I agree but windows does come with a version of tar preinstalled installed. I’m not sure if it uses xz though.

    The reason I named xz though is the xz-utils backdoor that was such a big deal.