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“Ventoy” responds to blobs concern on GitHub with ChatGPT nonsense from a newly-created Lemmy account after sole maintainer’s vacation to China (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ventoy is a tool to make a USB with multiple ISOs bootable, letting you select which ISO to use on boot. Another newly-created account claims to be the dev's friend and translator and has received no contact from the maintainer.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is ridiculous. You don't trust "Chinese maintainers" ("even if legit" lol), because the "CCP" might threaten "their family to get a backdoor inserted".

Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don't trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that "the CCP" is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.

Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We have chinese police here in Vancouver (edit Non Canadian force), if residents speak badly about CCP these "Police" show up at the door and try to coherce them back to mainland. I'm not regurgitating the articles, my friend living in vancouver had them show up. I'm not trusting blobs.