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My first contribution to Linux

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642 points vkoskiv | 1 comments | 06 Oct 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.916s | source
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schnitzelstoat ◴[06 Oct 25 13:11 UTC] No.45491030[source]▶
This was really interesting! I've often wondered how one would do such a thing.

Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

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henrym ◴[10 Oct 25 01:30 UTC] No.45534687[source]▶
> Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Years ago when I was a teenager I had a couple patches accepted for ksnake and gedit.

Certainly not as prestigious as a patch to Linux, but still the idea of code I'd written running on millions of PCs around the world felt amazing.

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1. johnisgood ◴[10 Oct 25 08:34 UTC] No.45536567[source]▶
Same. I found serious bugs in a couple of games, exploited some, had fun, wrote a patch and sent it to whoever. Problem is, I was so anxious I did it under an alias. I have my different aliases in the changelog of some games. Nice to look at them, like "wow, that's my contribution", and then it hits "but no one will believe it was me, it was not under my name". God damn it. :(

You know, back when I confused "hash function" with "encryption" and whatnot.