<![CDATA["Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again"]]>"Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again"

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894

What is it with privileged white men who feel their position in society as a coddled person makes the concerns of every other living being a nuance to be fought until we all just accept the bright end-of-history where there is nothing wrong because there is no politics.

There are problems. Your hand waving isn't actually magic and doesn't make them disappear.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/a1411a2a-0af2-4ec5-8dd7-ec271ec82626/hello-my-name-is-tovalds-and-i-d-like-to-stick-this-fork-into-the-bitkeeper-electrical-socket-againRSS for NodeSun, 26 Jul 2026 18:50:40 GMTThu, 16 Jul 2026 04:21:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:46:33 GMT]]>@mancube Sorry, I don't understand?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lizette603_23/statuses/116929723959023291https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lizette603_23/statuses/116929723959023291Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:46:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:33:39 GMT]]>@doctormo it's good that the Hurd kernel has made some progress because I won't fork off. I'll ditch sloppy Ainux. A linux kernel free option, isn't that beautiful?

Fck Torvalds and his project.

#Linux #Ainux #Torvalds #Hurd #HurdKernel #FreeSoftware #GNU

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.lukasrotermund.de/users/lukasrotermund/statuses/01KXNEP5FQ673FWG3CX0S6RFVBhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.lukasrotermund.de/users/lukasrotermund/statuses/01KXNEP5FQ673FWG3CX0S6RFVBThu, 16 Jul 2026 12:33:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:16:42 GMT]]>@doctormo
The Linux kernel development process is grounded in technical merit and pragmatic tooling, not ideological restrictions. As Linus Torvalds clarified on July 15, 2026, Linux is not an 'anti-AI' project; it embraces tools that enhance productivity provided they yield verifiable, high-quality code. The project's Terms of Engagement and Code of Conduct prioritize constructive contribution over personal preferences regarding toolchains. Contributors who fundamentally object to the use of AI assistants are welcome to exercise the open-source freedom to fork the repository or contribute to projects with different tooling policies. However, attempting to impose a blanket ban on AI usage within the mainline kernel contradicts the established governance model, which holds the human submitter—not the tool—fully accountable for code quality and correctness.

So, Linus Torvalds is right because he defends engineering reality over ideology: AI is a productivity tool like compilers, not a replacement for human judgment. By mandating that humans retain full legal and technical accountability for every line of code submitted to the Linux kernel, the project ensures quality and security without arbitrarily banning technology that accelerates development. The choice isn't 'AI vs. No AI'—it's 'responsible engineers vs. those who refuse to adapt,' and open source has always favored the former.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://friendica.rogueproject.org/objects/b71a4a1e-156a-58cb-aa7b-a8e225278460https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://friendica.rogueproject.org/objects/b71a4a1e-156a-58cb-aa7b-a8e225278460Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:16:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:03:25 GMT]]>@SecondUniverse @doctormo Harsh that you call the BDFL a side benefit.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/116929554359788089https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.finkhaeuser.de/users/jens/statuses/116929554359788089Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:03:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:14:26 GMT]]>@rzeta0 @doctormo Facts. And historians should note that people found them so fucking exhausting and detestable.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sidhewolf/statuses/116929361788790654https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sidhewolf/statuses/116929361788790654Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:14:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:10:33 GMT]]>@doctormo

tech nerds with low social intelligence and too much power

that will be the history of the 21st century

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/ap/users/116663503661791264/statuses/116929346486216911https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/ap/users/116663503661791264/statuses/116929346486216911Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:10:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:01:10 GMT]]>@doctormo it's no surprise that an aging FOSS purist like Linus still sees tech as neutral. I think we need to have serious discussions as a community about freedom zero. It should have been clear to us that freedom zero requires adjustment when the world's weapons and surveillance systems were built leveraging FOSS tech. The Do No Harm license got ridiculed. However, at least it seems clearer to more of us now, in the wake of LLMs, we need ethical open source. We need to rework freedom zero.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/simpleanecdote/statuses/116929073688407788https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/simpleanecdote/statuses/116929073688407788Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:01:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:28:22 GMT]]>@doctormo

Linus said nothing about slop. All he said was he won't ban the use of AI. And he won't force anyone to use it, but all who want an AI _ban_ can walk away.

In the end of the article there is even the quote of a senior maintainer stating that the AI reports start to be good. Shall they just ignore real reports?

AI slop is a serious thread. But this article is the wrong battleground to fight it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/noordsestern/statuses/116928944709067748https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/noordsestern/statuses/116928944709067748Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:28:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:27:32 GMT]]>@doctormo it’s pathetic the register too ignores the reasons to why many people have objections to llm (ai is marketing not a technology) starting with the massive theft it’s based on and the exploitations of data workers. The objection is not for llm as “tool”. This industry that produces them is deeply immoral and corrupt if not fascist.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/oatmeal/statuses/116928941450050608https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/oatmeal/statuses/116928941450050608Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:27:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:56:18 GMT]]>@doctormo I am getting pretty fed up with Torvalds and his attitude. He's been getting more and more angry over the years.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.piconet.work/ap/users/116590538099479427/statuses/116928818620310802https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.piconet.work/ap/users/116590538099479427/statuses/116928818620310802Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:56:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:53:28 GMT]]>@paul @doctormo @Cheeseness as when describing someone as "A tool" - worthless and dysfunctional.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116928807473810725https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116928807473810725Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:53:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:32:53 GMT]]>@mrkeen @doctormo
Andrew Tridgell needed to use Bitkeeper to do his job. But the license prevented him from using the official client, so he wrote his own, just like he had previously done for Windows file sharing. But BitKeeper was much more anti-interoperability than Microsoft in their "Linux is a cancer and the GPL is a virus" years.

The reason Andrew Tridgell was forced to use BitKeeper was that Linus Thorvalds had decided that it would be a great idea to lock kernel development into a proprietary system.

The similarity here is the decision to ignore ethics and legality¹ as long as Linus feels the tool does the job.

¹) BitKeeper had a license forbidding developers like Andrew Tridgell from using it. AI is built on large scale copyright violation, and while people like Sam Altman are rich enough to pretend that copyright law has already been abolished, politicians haven't yet gotten around to do so.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116216635389955538/statuses/116928726539558162https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116216635389955538/statuses/116928726539558162Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:32:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:22:18 GMT]]>@koushiniku @doctormo

That's where it's from. The Register re-used an old photo.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2012/06/18/linus-torvalds-drops-f-bomb-on-nvidia/1525362

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/skjeggtroll/statuses/116928684913022150https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/skjeggtroll/statuses/116928684913022150Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:22:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:01:02 GMT]]>@Cheeseness @doctormo Slavery is just a tool - it was used to produce a toxic product to people who didn't need it for the benefit of a few hyper-rich. No wait that's GenAI.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/geospacedman/statuses/116928601271154989https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/geospacedman/statuses/116928601271154989Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:01:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:31:50 GMT]]>@doctormo @Cheeseness
"AI is just" - A Tool

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://notnull.space/users/paul/statuses/01KXMXDHA5VZ0ZTERVETVRCSXQhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://notnull.space/users/paul/statuses/01KXMXDHA5VZ0ZTERVETVRCSXQThu, 16 Jul 2026 07:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:08:00 GMT]]>@doctormo I hope someone does fork the Linux kernel. We can't rely on this slop filled version for any important work.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jairajdevadiga/statuses/116928392783724376https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jairajdevadiga/statuses/116928392783724376Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:08:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:05:23 GMT]]>@doctormo The two personalities of Linus Torvalds.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jairajdevadiga/statuses/116928382474029114https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jairajdevadiga/statuses/116928382474029114Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:05:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:41:05 GMT]]>@doctormo There is no open source software if, regardless of your licensing and copyright terms, the maintainers of the project are all megacorpse datacenters.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116928286891852650https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116928286891852650Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:41:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:37:16 GMT]]>@doctormo

"The kernel project continues to be about technology, Torvalds added, and while the social angle of developing open source software is an important aspect, it is a “side benefit, not the point of the project.” "

So wrong. The social aspect is the whole point. The tool is a side benefit.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116928271899046791https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autistics.life/users/SecondUniverse/statuses/116928271899046791Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:37:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:18:43 GMT]]>@dasmatus @doctormo asbestos is still toxic even though it provides insulation. Its a tool, and one that you shouldn't want in your house, workplace, or anywhere you are living or doing construction (or might be in the future) because it makes a huge toxic mess in the long run.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116207776684293999/statuses/116928198944498007https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116207776684293999/statuses/116928198944498007Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:18:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:52:27 GMT]]>@doctormo If the tool is used properly then it'll boost their productivity of the maintainer, just like an electric screwdriver. If not, then you can get shot in the foot with it. The problem is that many people get shot in the foot by using the tool, disliking it and then never using it again.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115946346685883365/statuses/116928095710212792https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115946346685883365/statuses/116928095710212792Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:52:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:51:01 GMT]]>@doctormo
https://mastodon.social/@dzwiedziu/116924626522611982

@zzt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/116928090038692836https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/116928090038692836Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:51:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:47:25 GMT]]>@doctormo Complete mischaracterisation. Andrew Tridgell stuck his fork into the BitKeeper electrical socket. Torvalds fixed the situation so hard that now the whole world uses git.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrkeen/statuses/116928075897926718https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrkeen/statuses/116928075897926718Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:47:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Hello my name is Tovalds and I'd like to stick this fork into the Bitkeeper electrical socket again" on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:43:01 GMT]]>@doctormo They're all on the same play. This is a meme to remember how they don't need to be billionaires to make arrogant assholes, still treated like messiah by many. I'm sure you can spot some everywhere, in your daily routine.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/ap/users/116838771744618033/statuses/116928058587570645https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.uno/ap/users/116838771744618033/statuses/116928058587570645Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:43:01 GMT