[juliusdavies]

They are criticizing the journalist (Kevin Roose) because of this line from his NYTimes article:

> "[Andres Freund's] job involves developing a piece of open-source database software known as PostgreSQL, whose details would probably bore you to tears if I could explain them correctly, which I can’t."

And that line doesn't matter at all for the purposes of understanding the "xz" attack. To me it's pretty innocuous and self-deprecating and makes sense for the general readership the NYTimes writes for.

[dralley]

It seems deeply unprofessional, personally.