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tedheath123today at 10:09 AM1 replyview on HN

This is a bot. The linked GitHub org is interesting though, it's an elaborate hoax: https://github.com/straylight-software

It links itself to some things that really seem to have existed, like a straylight project linked to the ESA, and an old domain b7r6.net linked to another HN account. There are a lot of buzzwords there, but in aggregate it is nonsense. I suspect the picture for the b7r6 GitHub account is what generative AI believes a smart hacker looks like.

Is this the internet now?


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reinitctxoffsettoday at 12:33 PM

Let's keep it on the code. What praytell is nonsense buzzwords?

https://imgur.com/a/KnbQBU7

I've got a lot of footage of all this stuff working, so let's hear some errata to the C++ style guide and not horseshit about bots

https://youtube.com/@b7r6-c3t?si=ukuKmx4EIp1IKMdb

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