Oh you right, it was XZ. The curl one was a hypothetical, someone pointed out there was a way you could do some unicode wizardry to make a specific line vulnerable without it being really noticeable, but it was just a concept, no one tried to push it to the actual repo.
The spotter dude is a postgres contributor. For DB level a 100ms difference constantly is horrenduously big.
The curl one aint it the apex of the ai slop PRs in repo that made the only maintainer to force a "no ai PR" policy? He was being bombarded with convincing PRs, except they evoke code from heavens that never existed and assumes there were flaws
For a DB sure, but afaik what he measured was that establishing his ssh connection took 100ms longer or something. I would have just assumed my network was weird or something.
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u/Bright-Historian-216 1d ago
to curl? i've heard about xz-lib (i think it was xz-lib?), but not to curl. can you link that?