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    Fixed a post I saw earlier (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be "we'll fix it in production".

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Well it wasn't so much paranoia as obsession. The person who found it wasn't paranoid, they just went "Why is my connection taking a quarter of a second longer than it used to? This is unacceptable!!!"

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Technically they thought they might have introduced a bug that caused the delay / a regression and set about investigating it. Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

    Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

    Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

    I mean, small things like that add up, you want your stack as optimized as possible

    A quarter of a second here, another quarter there, and suddenly it might take 2 seconds longer for a connection to form, which matters a ton. A lot of work in the modern web is going into reducing latency