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A reminder to manage your startup apps (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

I don't think it was just some college kids, I could have sworn their professor was specifically getting his students to perform as bad actors to support some super-biased research papers he was trying to publish.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but this wasn't recent, this one was like 4 or 5 years ago unless it happened again. If I remember correctly it got the entire University's email address banned from contributing to the kernel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, two completely separate instances. Although, from the sound of it, there are a surprising number of people who seem to think that sabotaging Linux and hacking Linux are the same thing. I mean, I guess a pirate can sail on any ship, right?