sometimes i remind myself of this and i just laugh

@kaia Minnesota Uni decided it would be an amazing idea to test the strength of the open source community by making commits to the Linux Kernel with obvious security vulnerabilities.

@kaia The maintainers of the Linux Kernel acted fast and canned their whole shabang

@ioletsgo @kaia this does not make me proud to be a Minnesotan. As a Minnesotan I demand this university ride their specialized MetroTransit lines and walk their hospital tunnels for 5 hours. Immediately.

@kaia @meowcatheorange PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR LANE MAN!

@kaia @ioletsgo True! Me when the fucking MetroTransit Hybrid Bus and it fucking explodes and then I cry because I actually depend on the MetroTransit system to get around and now they have to deploy a new bus for my route which will take like a month because the

@kaia @ioletsgo (not clickbait)

@kaia @ioletsgo Also you should hear about the Downtown Skyway System in Minneapolis

It’s super-socialism!!!!

@kirby

@ioletsgo @kaia

@ioletsgo oh my god, link???

@luna @ioletsgo Basically what happened was the University of Minnesota introduced a back door into the Linux kernel on purpose to try to see if it would actually make it through to production (which I believe it did). When confronted by the community, they proposed the experiment and that it was sanctioned by the head researchers in their IT department.

From there they were banned from ever contributing to Linux ever again, as well as those particular people involved with the incident were also forbidden from contributing.

https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

@ioletsgo @kaia oh my god right 💀 💀

@temmie19 @ioletsgo holy fuck that's horrible

@ioletsgo i love how this page is linked in the footer of the entire cs&e department website

@meowcatheorange @kaia wait please tell me you know about LANE MAN, City Planning's Greatest Antihero?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeFw0I-igI