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    [–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    I read what sounded like an intelligent follow-up on this subject. But I’m not smart enough to verify for myself, so I still refrain from using ventoy - even though I’d love to start using it again.

    It was basically “wacky code from all over the place, poor coding practices, can’t find anything bad, but methods used are sus af”

    Says one dude I read on the internet :/

    [–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    That's it.

    Sounds like a Chinese geek tried to make something useful, did a lot of dirty hacks to get it going.

    And couldn't properly explain because his social skills and English weren't great.

    The blobs weren't super suspicious, just some gpld tools, basically busybox kind of stuff.

    The real problem is what he made was so fucking insanely useful and needed by everyone that the standards for software skyrocketed.

    Like you make a cure for cancer and everyone starts screaming at you because one of the side effects is temporary impotence.

    [–] Xanza@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

    Such a great post.