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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] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like Ventoy, it's handy but I don't think it's indispensable so probably what I'll do is go back to using Etcher (which is open source AFAIK) until this resolves itself one way or another. I assume either the dev will respond properly with an explanation and everything will be fine, or someone will get fed up enough to fork it. I feel like it's probably nothing nefarious, but it doesn't really hurt to be overly cautious in this case IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ventoy's "killer feature" is the ability to have multiple ISOs in a single drive, can Etcher do that? If so I'll switch, if not why not just use dd?

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

dd can do that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's deja vu all over again 😹

So can grub. Actually ventoy is built on grub