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163 Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taht

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/05/2025 11:34 EDT

Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taht

Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as "an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre."

But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him "one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a close friend of mine who I will miss very badly."

Dave, known on X as @mtaht because his birth name was Michael, was a true hacker of the old school who touched the lives of everybody using X. His work on mitigating bufferbloat impro

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