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Distro Lackey <[email protected]> writes:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ>

Ostensibly, its about the XV backdoor but it includes
a lot of background material.

XV is great image viewer that is still used and packaged today. Yes,
it's old. So is sh, awk, sed, grep. This is usenet anyway - usenet
itself is old.

XZ, of "XZ utils", only effected systemd/linux of a very specific
setup.
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

Linux was not "infected", there was no virus, and the internet was not
weeks away from collapse. The video is overly dramatic, exaggerates,
and flat out lies.

Stallman is fantastic!

Stallman signed an NDA. He can't be mad about not getting source code
when that's the agreement he made. I love free software, but without paid programmers and programming, we'd not be where we are today. Most people
like to get paid for their work.

Note how the authors refer to GNU/Linux as "world’s most
important operating system."

Apple and Windows run on most of the world's systems. Linux rules the
server world because Windows is a shaky mess and always was, but it's
fine for home users who need/want hand-holding and their system run for
them. Microsoft also has awesome marketing, getting their product into
the hands of many companies and people. Here, in college, if you take a graphics art course or similar buying Microsoft (or Adobe) products is *required*. Getting students today used to your software translates into tomorrow's professionals buying it and businesses using it.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:50:17 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

Linux was not "infected", there was no virus, and the internet was not
weeks away from collapse. The video is overly dramatic, exaggerates,
and flat out lies.

No, the video is essentially correct. The danger was very imminent.

The problem is that this was an extremely sophisticated attack that
spanned several years and included coordinated "social engineering"
vectors as well. No simple video could possibly expound all the details
in a satisfactory manner.

I would suggest the following link to get a more complete picture:

<https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline>

Stallman signed an NDA. He can't be mad about not getting source code
when that's the agreement he made.

Stallman did not sign any NDA. He was merely the victim of the NDA that
was enforced by Xerox regarding their printer software. The NDA applied
to employees/programmers of Xerox and not to Stallman.

I love free software, but without paid
programmers and programming, we'd not be where we are today. Most people
like to get paid for their work.

One does not get paid for taking a shower or brushing ones teeth, but
most people want to engage in those activities.

It's the same with FOSS.

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From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:50:17 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

Linux was not "infected", there was no virus, and the internet was not
weeks away from collapse. The video is overly dramatic, exaggerates,
and flat out lies.

Gentoo was one of the very first "distros" to notice the bug:

<https://bugs.gentoo.org/925415>

Notice how the bogeyman himself, Jia Tan, actually replies.

Gentoo tops everything else.

Brother, if you ain't using Gentoo then there's a padded cell
somewhere with your name on it.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

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On 4/13/26 4:21 PM, Distro Lackey wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:50:17 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

Linux was not "infected", there was no virus, and the internet was not
weeks away from collapse. The video is overly dramatic, exaggerates,
and flat out lies.

Gentoo was one of the very first "distros" to notice the bug:

<https://bugs.gentoo.org/925415>

Notice how the bogeyman himself, Jia Tan, actually replies.

Gentoo tops everything else.

Brother, if you ain't using Gentoo then there's a padded cell
somewhere with your name on it.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

A padded cell. Because they don't boot up to a black screen and call it
a GUI.

No, dumbass, *you* belong in a straitjacket in a padded cell.
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jayjwa wrote:

(sensible post snipped)

You seem to be a normal person. Unusual, in cola.
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one can quote it lying)
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On 4/13/26 7:15 PM, chrisv wrote:

jayjwa wrote:

(sensible post snipped)

You seem to be a normal person. Unusual, in cola.

Heh, yeah, a lot of us are pretty weird. I would be normal except that
I like trans woman cock in my ass, and have a history of weirdness that
I've overcome, but is still in the perception of me here.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:15:44 -0500, chrisv wrote:

You seem to be a normal person. Unusual, in cola.

But it's certainly usual for you.

After all, that what mamma always said.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


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On 4/13/26 11:53 PM, Distro Lackey wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:15:44 -0500, chrisv wrote:

You seem to be a normal person. Unusual, in cola.

But it's certainly usual for you.

After all, that what mamma always said.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

You need medication.
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Joel W. Crump
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Distro Lackey wrote:

chrisv wrote:

You seem to be a normal person. Unusual, in cola.

But it's certainly usual for you.

After all, that what mamma always said.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but it's true that I would
not claim to be a "usual" person.
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"So sentient human beings should have their freedom restricted so that
some bits on a disk somewhere (source code) can have freedom instead."
- trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel", attacking the GPL
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Le 13-04-2026, jayjwa <[email protected]d> a écrit :

Distro Lackey <[email protected]> writes:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ>

Ostensibly, its about the XV backdoor but it includes
a lot of background material.

XV is great image viewer that is still used and packaged today. Yes,
it's old. So is sh, awk, sed, grep. This is usenet anyway - usenet
itself is old.

XZ, of "XZ utils", only effected systemd/linux of a very specific
setup.
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

Linux was not "infected", there was no virus, and the internet was not
weeks away from collapse. The video is overly dramatic, exaggerates,
and flat out lies.

You are answering to a message written by someone who knows less about computers than the first random little child you could meet at the corner
of your house.

He already did the confusion between xv and xz, and guess what? He'll do
it again.
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