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.
> "[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.