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Right? Clearly riffing on the 'happy holidays' message. I think it's a pretty funny post, and it's even more funny that it was taken seriously.

Someone could go stalk their account to check, I can't be bothered with that right now.

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They guy hasn't actually created much, though the account is fairly old. Most of the repos are forks of others with no changes. It looks like a real person, but his name is Christian, which is not a likely name for a Jew. His repos got brigaded and he claimed his grandfather fought for the Germans on the Eastern front after "kick[ing] some Gestapo ass" [0]. This part is obviously malarkey, and convinces me he's a troll.

[0] https://github.com/Christian-Schiffer/servicelayer.chat/issu...

It looks like a real person

Appearances can be deceiving... even the profile photo could be generated and not a picture of a real human, as this other item currently prominently on the front page reveals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847051

No need for all that effort. The profile photo was just lifted from somewhere else; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847902.

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