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    Linus Torvalds is funlord of LKML (yarchive.net)
    submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 [*].

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    [–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 22 points 7 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 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

    [–] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Gnome isn't mentioned anywhere in that exchange?

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

    It is from another one

    [–] brotundspiele@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago

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

    [–] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Krafting@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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

    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 7 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 6 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 6 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 7 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.

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