That running away from humans is a survival mechanism is what many rescuers say. One of them even coined the term Lost Dog Syndrome.

TL;DR: The dog is in survival / ferel mode and it is suspicious of anything other than itself. Providing a safe space and slowly introducing back to humans actually change it’s behaviour into a calm and friendly one.

For anyone struggling to understand the joke, as I did

OP, you may want to edit the title. It’s as other commenters mentioned. It is about Applebaum not the whole article.

This is a bit absurd. I really don’t think this is as serious as some comments say. Also there is a comment from AUR package manager which explains more details. . And even the blobs in the first post there are source and build instructions in their respective folder.