The History of Xz (and the "Hack"!)

The further you dig, the farther the history goes, so we settled on starting in 1906, then the 90's, then Slackware. This is the history of Xz that culminated into a "hack" that _would_ have rocked the world if not for one intrepid SQL developer. Originally released in the full episode, Open Source Isn't Safe! on May 13th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY 📖The History of XZ🦜 LZMA https://web.archive.org/web/20121109182343/http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/1025556 Andrey Markov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain LZ77 and LZ78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78 7zip history https://7-zip.org/history.txt Slackels https://web.archive.org/web/20060202151612/https://tukaani.org/ LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDK https://web.archive.org/web/20060213143853/http://tukaani.org/lzma/history Tukanni Linux Project was officially gone https://web.archive.org/web/20071011030325/http://tukaani.org/ LZMA Utils was left behind in f