I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

datarama@hachyderm.io

@jabgoe2089 Kent Overstreet, the bcachefs maintainer.

dashdsrdash@tilde.zone

@datarama @jabgoe2089
Reminder that Kent has always been very bad at interacting with other people, especially anything involving politeness, procedure, compromise or negotiation.

And not quite brilliant enough to make people overlook that, especially Linus.

mjdxp@labyrinth.zone

@wrench @datarama maybe we should all just collectively decide to use NTFS...

datarama@hachyderm.io

@mjdxp @wrench you can have my XFS partitions when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

floe@hci.social

@datarama My first thought was "Wait, did Hans Reiser get out of prison already?" 🫣

richlv@mastodon.social

@cazabon @datarama Not sure whether people are egging him on or is it a crazy-magnet.

As for Kent saying "Do you have any psychologists involved? Like, at all? You really should"...
That will age well.

tak@gush.taks.garden

@datarama why is it always the filesystem guys

cari@sunny.garden

@datarama @Binder I long for a time when people who wanted to play make-pretend with little people in their computer would just fire up The Sims or something 🫩

datarama@hachyderm.io

@cari @Binder What if all the Sims got connected to the Internet, though? And they could send random bullshit to strangers?

binder@petrous.vislae.town

@datarama @cari sounds like September to me

michaelcoyote@mastodon.social

@dashdsrdash

Oh no.. do we need to hand it to Linus *again*?

@datarama @jabgoe2089

dashdsrdash@tilde.zone

@michaelcoyote @datarama @jabgoe2089

Everyone is imperfect. Some people try to recognize and fix their mistakes, and others try to bull their way through. Civilization depends on the first kind.