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“Ventoy” responds to blobs concern on GitHub with ChatGPT nonsense from a newly-created Lemmy account after sole maintainer’s vacation to China (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ventoy is a tool to make a USB with multiple ISOs bootable, letting you select which ISO to use on boot. Another newly-created account claims to be the dev's friend and translator and has received no contact from the maintainer.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the best case, the software is unmaintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is very much actively maintained other than this supposed vacation from the developer. Everything else is purely speculation and what seems to be impersonation of the dev on the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This big issue has been open since April, and the dev has not responded, and his last commit was in early June. Yes, most of this is pure speculation, but 4 months is unmaintained.