[whoibrar]

This quote hits hard

    Coders who contribute to it, she said, should feel proud enough to declare, “Everyone uses the software, it’s in everything, and I wrote it!” It’s striking how few people know Mills’s name, given how many know the pseudonym of whoever created Bitcoin."

I never heard of Mill before, and am just glad to have read and known this critical man and technology to internet infrastructure.

[Sniffnoy]

I mean, I think Satoshi Nakamoto is notorious precisely because of his pseudonymous nature. If he'd used his real name, I doubt he'd get nearly as much attention.

[mdbauman]

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347

I was a little sad to read that Mills in fact lives in Delaware, not Nebraska. I always had a sneaking suspicion that this comic was NTP-related.

[Maursault]

To be fair, that's only off by 0.0069625621 seconds. Since time advances at the speed of light, you could say everyone lives in Nebraska and still be correct well within the margin of error.

[bjeanes]

The title text for the image implies it might be about ImageMagick, but that's probably dated now since the likes of vips