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“I will slaughter you”

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Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by masklinn »

oldkn wrote: post #24

I've seen the theme of "maintainer of popular open source product is threatened by person who doesn't understand it's just a component" show up a few times, but when I think about it most those times have been related to curl specifically. Maybe it's because of the domain haxx.se? Or maybe Daniel just writes about it a lot? Does this kind of thing happen so regularly to others?

It’s because curl and libcurl are used virtually everywhere, and clearly identified. This means in any problematic or malicious device or software, odds are good the first clearly identifiable thing you’ll find are references to curl.

Though the domain probably doesn’t help with the association. If you got hacked and the first clear string you find is “haxx.se” it’s not a big leap to interpret it as a taunt.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by RGamma »

fraktl wrote: post #31

Judging by what transpired and how the other person behaves, it sounds like he got what he deserved. Such a rotten personality shouldn't be allowed around people, let alone computers.

It reads more like mental illness..

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Post by Arnt »

I suppose this is an argument in favour of the asset downloading scheme pioneered by maven/gradle and nowadays adopted by many languages: The unhinged and/or ignorant won't see sane/good library code mixed into worse code that uses the libraries.

But oh god, it's not exactly a technical argument.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by david_draco »

Ndymium wrote: post #12

This feels to me like a person with some sort of mental illness or breakdown and delusions of grandeur and persecution. Their explanation doesn't make much sense. If I were Daniel, I wouldn't respond any further.

He already responded by revealing the email and real name of the person, presumably without consent, aka doxxing.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by mettamage »

> That code is used to root and exploit people.

That comment made me think and I realized the following.

Open-source code like curl is inevitable when a society gains internet [1]. It's not Daniel's fault. If anything is to blame, blame the internet and human nature on a grand scale [2].

[1] If he wouldn't have made it, someone else would. If no one else would, then people would've done it privately. Some of that code would've been leaked and popularized as an open source project (it's basic probability: many people would need to do it privately, since they have to if they want their CLI to interact with the web).

[2] There was an interview I read/heard somewhere where some Twitter employee said: if there is a 1 in a 500 million chance that something could happen based on a small piece of text, it means that at Twitter, it happens every day.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by TheChaplain »

I see someone who ended up in a bad situation because they messed up, and in their anger tries to blame someone else instead of taking responsibility.

I use free and open source software everyday in my products and I am fully aware that all of them have licenses specifically telling me that there is no warranty or liability of damages. If something goes wrong, it's on me, I made a wrong choice and I have to deal with the consequences.

And threats are not okay and should be reported to the authorities.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by [deleted] »

nullc wrote: post #37

I'm sorry to hear that. libCurl is great and my life is better for it. It's really best to not reply to the mentally ill people (and you can be pretty sure anyone sending something like the first is at least temporarily mentally ill). It can sometimes be extremely tempting, I know-- especially when they've managed to say something almost perfectly constructed for pithy comeback. But it will not help you and it will n…

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