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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 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow! A company gave away money without being contractually obligated to do so? The world sure has changed since then. I'm glad that Torvalds is doing well, he completely changed the world.

I wonder how Brahm Cohen is doing. He also had a huge impact on the world. I know he got a write-up in Wired Magazine after inventing Bit Torrent (that's how I learned about it way back then), but I haven't heard much about him since.