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a uh, psa about bincode www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...

Just to make it abundantly clear: don’t post people’s home addresses to the internet what is wrong with you

Yeah the moment I saw that info in the reddit thread I was like "okay I get why people were concerned initially about the git history stuff, but this is several steps too far the fuck is wrong with you". Was sad but not surprised to see the follow-up.

I actually don't think the person who did it even intended it badly, they just did not think at all about the implications. But I could read between the lines as soon as bits of info started surfacing just why the author probably wanted privacy and then to see people just continue...blech.

yeah OOP has a chosen name too so definitely no bad intentions, just fully didnt know at the time that the display name that was still actively being used to publish the crate was supposed to be changed until OP said so, else i'm sure it would've played out a bit more delicately

yeah. I saw an apology from one of the people in a subsequent thread. was glad to see it. but god this all could have been avoided by reaching out privately first before enlisting reddit for OSINT.

I don't think they did not think it through. Hosting was moved and history on GH deleted to say FU to AI scraping. Project was considered "done" with no future releases. Rename happened for undisclosed reasons (but there were reasons) but was considered unimportant given no new releases ever.

Yeah, I also had a thought when I heard “rewrote history”…

Yeah. I haven't gone and confirmed, not wanting to actually invade privacy more than I did unintentionally by reading that thread, but...

The people who were portraying it as just "rewriting got history" are burying the lede imo. The author changed the email associated with some past commits, no source code was ever touched. Purely a git metadata change