I’ve heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?
Look up a machine called Therac-25. great example of this. Terrifying.
That’s terrifying!
I’ll save the next guy a search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Tl;dr:
The Therac-25, a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), was implicated in six accidents between 1985 and 1987 where patients received massive radiation overdoses due to software errors.
Sci-Hub anyone?
Alexandra Elbakyan manages this truly awesome source of scientific papers completely on her own. She got sued twice and lost, had to change the URL multiple times due to takedowns and only gets along by donations.
glibc
Huh, is glibc really only maintained by a small number of people? I would not have expected that.
it’s not much… https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/graphs/sid?ref_type=heads maybe 3 people ?
Interesting, but are those commits to the glibc library itself or commits to the Debian package of it? The link makes it look like the latter, but I could be wrong.
ah yeah the original is actually here https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
running
git shortlog -s -n -e glibc-2.35..(03.02.2022 to now) gives270 Adhemerval Zanella 179 Noah Goldstein 166 Florian Weimer 158 Sunil K Pandey 105 Sergey Bugaev 84 Samuel Thibault [...] ´´´
Basically every Windows sysadmin is indebted to Mark Russinovich and SysInternals. Fortunetly, PowerToys has come a long way because I’m pretty sure sysinternals haven’t been updated since Windows XP.
Mark Russinovich now works for Microsoft and they own Sysinternals. Also the tools get updated quite regularly.
Not a package but FileZilla is developed by Tim Kosse for over 20 years. I know that there are a lot of other FTP-Clients but FileZilla is my favorite. Easy to use and very very stable. There is a pro version sure, but most of the time the regular one does the job. My company throws thousands of dollars a month at Adobe, Microsoft and others. But they would never even think about giving anything to Tim Kosse and others, even though I’ve probably saved days of work with tools like this.
