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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    5 months ago

    I saw a post earlier about Empress returning to game cracking. For modern video games that use Denuvo DRM, she’s the only person who can really crack it, as far as I know. Singlehandedly holding up the AAA game piracy scene.

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      5 months ago

      I can’t help but laugh at how batshit crazy she is. Didn’t she write a rap at some point??

      I’ll never not be convinced that she’s on a fair amount of meth and/or crack.

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      5 months ago

      It was somewhat weird waiting for the HP release on her TG channel.

      Like I’ve seen my fair share of terf transphobes, but she’s honestly best described as a hater.

      There were so many rants.

      But like with Harry Potter, I like to separate the artist from the art.