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

Guess we got a sequel

What a bad situation. Yeah, changing infrastructure and rewriting Git commit history without clear comms is bad, but nothing justifies doxing people (in this case sharing real names and addresses of maintainers).

I can see how well-meaning people might end up doing this (I was party to an incident where someone got doxed because of some genuine safety concerns), but, like. Even if it wasn't deliberately ill-intentioned it's a massive fuckup. Do not dox people.

I mean, I don't think the maintainer handled the situation very well, but crucially, THAT'S NOT AN EXCUSE.