brezel

@brezel@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flaw in Git bloated Microsoft repository by a factor of 35.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah i'm not saying it is stupid or something, but this kind of optimisation is found in C code very often, where people take the first|last N of something because it is most likely good enough :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flaw in Git bloated Microsoft repository by a factor of 35.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The algorithm checked only the last 16 characters of the path, so package differences were not considered.

  that is such a C thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my guess is that a large number of tor exit nodes is run by government agencies.