In another life, I delivered a package to Linus and he answered the door in a bathrobe at 1:30 in the afternoon, just got out of the shower. Nice guy.
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Isn't this the "woke communist" that runs his company in a shitty way? Overworks employees and stuff? I'm not familiar with the drama is just weird not seeing anything about that in the comments
Even though wrong Linus (Torvalds is the Linus who made Linux) I'm glad someone brought that up. Last time I saw LTT he was cozying up with nazis. Last time I heard about him he was being a PR-washing ultralib. He's been beloved among reactionaries every step of the way.
Different Linus. This Linus made Linux, he's not the one who does tech tips.
Oh cool, I think I've always just assumed Torvalds was LTT's last name bc I didn't know they were different people lol
Bea-fucking-utifully said.
I already had a huge respect for him for being really pragmatic, but after this post my respect for him climbed a level above I thought wasn't even possible.
And that's without considering the guy basically made software that runs >99% of modern internet.
DAMN
I knew there was a reason besides Linux that made me love Linus.
huh... i have no idea who that other person is but linus being this based is nice
If you're wondering how to follow him: https://social.kernel.org/torvalds
this implies torvalds is a community on social.kernel.org.
person mentions have @ not ! (also you can't follow people on lemmy yet)
Torvalds isn't always right, but he's wrong much less often than not.
I remember having a conversation with my conservative boss. He said something stupid about not understanding pronouns and the look on his face when I told him it didn't matter because the pronouns aren't for him. If he can't take a few minutes to understand why someone uses a specific pronoun, it's better that he just excuses himself from it. He just couldn't understand why I would exclude him in that way. Like fuck you dude, you bring it up, get upset when you can't understand and then think it's all about you. Fuck off.
Would be better if you just started calling him she, they or it. You would probably be fired, but he would get the message. mostly wouldn't you never know with them people
They'd be fired, and he wouldn't have got the message. I'm 100% confident on this one
The boss doesn't need to get the message. How it works isn't complicated and I don't believe that anyone just can't understand it. That's not the issue and never has been.
They just hate trans people.
Bingo. The message isn't for the boss. It's for my coworkers who might be hiding their identity because of that boss to know they have someone in their corner.
I need to be able to upvote more than once!
Best Linus.
This is pretty much my stance.
A whole lot of what the right gets uppity about is none of falls strictly in the 'none of their fucking business' category
A common dog whistle for the right is individual rights and freedoms... Yet they get hung up on things like trans rights which are checks notes individual rights and freedoms
Yeah, but you forget about their individual right and freedom not to feel offended.
More like their right and freedom to feel superior to others by invalidating them.
What a fuckin legend
Love to see it. Not shocked, though.
For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I'm interested in (it's really great, and I haven't seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.
Can't say that without spilling the deets. What language?
Wouldn't have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it's basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn't finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it's loading)
For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the "grammar" of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don't think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.
Oh, damn. Why do assholes gotta ruin everything?
I've seen Nim before. It looks interesting, and I like the promise of a no-nonsense, performant language. I'm comfortable over here in dotnet land though. 😄
dotnet, go, and rust seem like the most promising languages at the moment.
I want to see Linus and Stallman fight
Who does that help?
Edit: Yes, I see.
Edit 2: Ah jeez.
Stallman being punched help anyone
I'm out of the loop. I know he's seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?