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the most consequential figures in the tech world are half guys like steve jobs and bill gates and half some guy named ronald who maintains a unix tool called 'runk' which stands for Ronald's Universal Number Kounter and handles all math for every machine on earth

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aside from "smaller" stuff like curl, remember when everyone assumed the world's default tls stack were just fine then heartbleed happened and we found out it's almost 2 decades worth of cruft, lasagna code that the devs are struggling to keep alive with a shoestring budget

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hey if you didn’t like openssl you also had the option of using a commercial tls stack which mysteriously defaulted to that one rng the nsa was strangely eager for people to use