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

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.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    21 days ago

    I realize that this era makes it difficult, but that is why I would be cautious in projects, like Rustdesk dev was obfuscating the chinese location, and blobs, so I have removed that. My phone runs GrapheneOS so things are sandboxed, my home electronics are either totally blocked from web access, or certain IPs restricted. And of course Canada US would try to compel, but we have more transparency here than CCP shinanigens. I’m just saying, everyone blindy installing Ventoy that has more blobs than source code, and possible mainland connection should not be

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      21 days ago

      Ventoy does not have more blobs than source code. The 3 blob folders—which constitute ~1MB out of ~16MB—are properly labeled with reproducible build instructions… for now. The 4 months’ silence and impersonation without opposition are suspicious. That said, I think it’s still safe to use your existing installations.