I'm not certain but I think it's this guy: https://twitter.com/tomkysar
What makes you think this is the guy? I could not find any reference to geohot in his tweets.
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throwawaybner3 commented on Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it · Posted by u/ccleve
> I bought him a Chromebook for schoolwork, but also for other private things. When we logged in...
This is why you need to pay attention to the technology choices that you make, and that your schools make. Chromebooks are designed from the ground up to be locked-down dystopian spyware once you "log in" to them with a specific Google account. For heaven's sake stop buying any more Chromebooks.
The correct solution here is not technological at all. Call into the school's board meeting during public comment, and make it loud and clear that the school is installing spyware on students' Chromebooks. Share your technical credentials and the method by which you found this. Emphasize stories of previous data breaches involving educational companies [1], and show officials that they are putting students' sensitive data at risk. (Edit: See the important point in the reply from 'n8cpdx below about the correct tone to use in your comments – don't repeat my words verbatim!)
The technical details don't matter too much to educational officials – as soon as the "Chromebook = bad spyware" label sticks and they think that a fuck-up here could cost them them bad press, they will allow their IT department to make more privacy-respecting technology choices even when those choices cost a little more. If no one speaks up, it's a race to the bottom driving us closer to the fiction in The Right to Read [2].
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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/smarterselect-exposed-mill...
RMS(Richard Stallman) was way ahead. Like him or not. He is right.
And the shady cheapETH business last year: https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz...
Who is goku?
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I like his honest streams. Also this geohot can code for 12 hours straight. That's just amazing. If you take in to account his speed of thought, its more like 36 hours.
The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both languages.
We’re using the Rope data structure for text representation, and the tree-sitter parser for syntax highlighting and some smart features like file outline, local renaming and symbol search. All other language features are powered by LSP servers (rust-analzyer and gopls).
I’d be happy to answer any questions under this comment or anywhere else in this thread.