torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points
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it is currently day 0 of linus torvalds being unable to prove he isn’t a fraud who stumbled into or plagiarized all the code he wrote
start the fucking counter, right next to the “days since AGI with no general intelligence found” counter
got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
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@zzt But yes, the entire reason Linux became big was because the GNU Mach kernel project was in development hell, and then Linus posted a hobby project as part of a rebuttal to a debate with one of his professors that was Good Enough to make the GNU coreutils standalone. Hell, remember the original posting Linus made? He never wanted it to become big! But it did anyway and now we're all paying the price
@zzt I might write a more detailed version of this later on tonight, no promises
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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?
and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.
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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
@zzt no they will never reflect, these folks have proven themselves to care more about glory wealth and power than anything else.
they’re nodes in the system, they’re not the humans they want you to think they are. that is where our empathy is no good. can’t bridge that gap. they’re malicious, bad actors, using the legal system to hide from the fact they’re frauds
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why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?
and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.
little fucker lives and dies on unearned respect
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little fucker lives and dies on unearned respect
@zzt
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and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.
that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.
@zzt he is absolutely going to take the kernel closed source. dude is seething https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451818001188131
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@zzt no they will never reflect, these folks have proven themselves to care more about glory wealth and power than anything else.
they’re nodes in the system, they’re not the humans they want you to think they are. that is where our empathy is no good. can’t bridge that gap. they’re malicious, bad actors, using the legal system to hide from the fact they’re frauds
@zzt they’re only here to mock, they’re not here to do anything but zap our energy and make us weaker
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@zzt they’re only here to mock, they’re not here to do anything but zap our energy and make us weaker
@zzt my advice is to jeer back at them with extreme prejudice, and if needed to block their ass so you can focus on building the world they want to steal from you, and then defend it
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@zzt my advice is to jeer back at them with extreme prejudice, and if needed to block their ass so you can focus on building the world they want to steal from you, and then defend it
@zzt i am being so fucking real rn, i know bullies and fuckheads when i see em
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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
@zzt because… *gestures vaguely at everything*
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why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?
and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.
"when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal"
I don't understand how more people don't see this. They're strip-mining the internet and selling it back to you via taps that they control. It's crazy to me that people are so quick to willingly surrender to what is clearly a new form of mass oppression that's taking root.
I'm already dealing with fresh college grads who can't arrive at solutions without prompting, it's extremely alarming every time I run into these people in classes.
Also, as an aside, the people who are okay with slopping code but don't like it when art is slopped are a whole other enigma to me. Like, do you just not value your work? Is that it? -
torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points
and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea
nobody operating in good faith thinks an LLM is like a compiler. this is an AI booster meme from early 2026. but torvalds has a captive audience, so his bad takes don’t need to be new. expect to see this crap parroted once again by the worst guys you know. https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451805824031590
@zzt He should step down and let an actual programmer manage the kernel
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and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.
that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.
@zzt has he talked about 'human made slop' yet or do we give him another month -
@zzt has he talked about 'human made slop' yet or do we give him another month
@steppe_lord no but some banned fucker on our lemmy instance just accused @davidgerard of writing it for criticizing torvalds, is that a thing now?
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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
@zzt
Being angry is a warranted response.(I'm not more angry as I burnt it up on the FreeCAD slop-acceptance/wake thread being asked do I know FreeCADs processes enough to be allowed to have my voice heard.)
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got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
@zzt I saw it and had to hold myself back
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@zzt
Being angry is a warranted response.(I'm not more angry as I burnt it up on the FreeCAD slop-acceptance/wake thread being asked do I know FreeCADs processes enough to be allowed to have my voice heard.)
@dzwiedziu ah, of course freecad is going slop, why wouldn’t it
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