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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 132 points 3 months ago (3 children)

NTP is the one that comes to mind for me.

Basically every device uses it and until fairly recently was maintained by a single person

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Network Time Protocol? Cool, didn't know that!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Though OpenNTPD, Chrony or timesyncd if you're on Systemd, are usually better suited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

So they have a donation/support page?