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    Linus Torvalds is funlord of LKML (yarchive.net)
    submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by uis@lemm.ee to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances [*].

    Let's add more quotes

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    [–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 21 points 10 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

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

    [–] brotundspiele@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Gnome isn't mentioned anywhere in that exchange?

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

    It is from another one

    [–] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Krafting@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 10 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/

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    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@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months 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@programming.dev 0 points 10 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