Linus Torvalds is funlord of LKML

uis OP , 1 month ago

Fresh from LKML:

So I'm going to have a HARD REQUIREMENT that any compiler complaints
need to be really really sane. They need to detect when people do
things like this on purpose, and they need to SHUT THE ^&% UP about
the fact that wrap-around happens.

Any tool that is so stupid as to complain about wrap-around in the
above is a BROKEN TOOL THAT NEEDS TO BE IGNORED.

Really. This is non-negotiable.

uis OP , 1 month ago

And no, the answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT to add cognitive load on kernel
developers by adding yet more random helper types and/or functions.

We already expect a lot of kernel developers. We should not add on to
that burden because of your pet project.

...

Be the solution, not the problem.

onlinepersona , 2 months ago

Mailinglists just make for terrible reading. Suddenly there are quotes from discussions not on the page. The worst tool for async conversation right behind smoke signals.

Anti Commercial-AI license

redcalcium , 2 months ago

He's been rehabilitated for a few years now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy/

infeeeee , 2 months ago

This is a gem:

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it
was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system
calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does
idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering
that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

But my favorite is not from a mailing list, but a google+ post for opensuse developers:

If you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace ‘my kids’ with ‘sales people on the road’ if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place

Krafting , 2 months ago

We need to make more memes using Torvalds quotes from mailing list

uis OP , 2 months ago

This ‘users are idiots, and are confused by functionality’ mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it."

EinfachUnersetzlich , 2 months ago

Gnome isn't mentioned anywhere in that exchange?

uis OP , 2 months ago

It is from another one

proton_lynx , 2 months ago

Holy shit, and this is from 2005/2006. It has only gotten worse.

uis OP , 2 months ago

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html

brotundspiele , 2 months ago

To be fair, he is not completely wrong. Gnome is an idiotic DE for idiotic users.
I use Gnome, btw.