• calango@programming.dev
    94·
    3 days ago

    this guy wouldn’t pay for sex

    Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free. Torvalds Linus

  • lemonaz@lemmy.world
    391·
    3 days ago

    He’s also not a billionaire. Him and Jimmy Wales are true heroes of our time. Their work has shaped the modern world yet their fortunes are nowhere near even a single billion. It seems almost absurd and dumb on their part that they didn’t even make 1 billion in decades given their impact, but turns out that’s just the normal rate of accumulation when you don’t just sell out or steal the work of others.

      • Avicenna@programming.dev
        1·
        3 days ago

        Don’t know what his deal is and why he acted as such but the page is still there as is and it helped inform likely hundereds of thousands of people. Don’t know if he had a change of heart but he created something larger than himself so that is fine. Just telling this so that people don’t misdirect their anger against wikipedia.

      • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
        1·
        3 days ago

        Considering his lack of public statements and actual support for Israel and zionism I’d argue your wrong.

        Conservatively moderating a shit show that is Israeli subject matter is one thing (and I’ve been banned from reddit for pointing out how bat shit insane zionism is) but actively supporting the regime is a completely different thing.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      12·
      4 days ago

      I actually made three new friends on new years eve completely through mentioning Linux. We were at a party and I had a really bad year last year so I was rusty in the “talking to people” department, the few people I knew there, who are indie games devs that don’t use Linux, said something (can’t remember exactly what) that made me reply with a Linux joke and those three people moved their chairs closer to me with a “ooooh, a linux nerd, let’s fucking go” energy. We went on such a nerd dive that they party host told us that we aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave.
      We talked a lot more through the night and had to really concentrate to not get thrown out, haha.

      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        We aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave

        I get this, in my own house. We need speakeasy for linux.

    • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      Super popular tv show from the 90s with Jennifer Anniston (from Office Space), Courtney Cox (from Scream) and a bunch of other schmucks that I can’t remember.

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      Another contributor who doesn’t have wildly differing political ideals from your own, I think?

    • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      150·
      4 days ago

      It’s a class that’s allowed to access another class’s private members. Obviously Linus doesn’t have any, because he codes in C.

      • Redkey@programming.dev
        13·
        4 days ago

        Private members aren’t actively blocked from external access; they’re passively marked “Access prohibited”.

        That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can’t pick up on the signals telling them that they’re not wanted.

        (Fellow C programmers: I’m joking. :D)

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      30·
      4 days ago

      It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    78·
    4 days ago

    Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    64·
    4 days ago

    If he’s in the files it’s strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      144·
      4 days ago

      He’s right that we shouldn’t infantilise teenagers by calling them ‘children’, lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there’s no difference between them.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
        61·
        3 days ago

        Sorry but by the article linked above, he whatabouts rape of teenagers with “but they were not children”. He may have done a lot of good for free software, but this is not a single poorly worded comment - these kinds of statements can be found by the dozen. And that means he is mentally unwell / mentally damaged to consider them acceptable.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          3·
          3 days ago

          If I recall he was more hung up on the consent part, because he was probably a black and white logic thinker. If Teen consent, therefore OK. I think later he made a statement that he had re-thought it, after people argued that a teen saying yes is not consent because they can’t legally consent.

          • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            3 days ago

            I think later he made a statement that he had re-thought it

            afaict only thing he’s re-thought is this:

            Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

            Through personal conversations in recent years, I’ve learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

            But as that blog post points out:

            This statement from Stallman has been accepted by his defenders as evidence of his capitulation on pedophilia. I argue that this statement is misleading due to the particular way Stallman uses the word “child”. When Stallman uses this word, he does so with a very specific meaning, which he explains on his website:

            Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers. Let’s resist the practice of infantilizing teenagers, by not calling them “children”.

            — stallman.org, “Anti-glossary”

            It seems clear from this definition is that Stallman’s comments are not a capitulation at all. His 2019 retraction, when interpreted using his definition of “children”, does not contradict most of Stallman’s past statements regarding sex and minors, including his widely criticized defenses of many people accused of sexual impropriety with minors.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            I only read the linked summary, and I was referring to a quote where he explicitly referenced rape in a civil war scenario, that’s not a word I made up for something consensual with a teenager.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        84·
        3 days ago

        As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.

        There’s a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.

        Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.

        For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That’s fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it’s punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don’t actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.

        So that 18 year old is now a “pedophile” a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.

        Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.

        It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.

        Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There’s been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it’s a easy headline.

        So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don’t think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is “icky”.

        • 0x0@lemmy.zip
          2·
          3 days ago

          At least in my neck of the woods there’s a pre-16, 16-18 and 18+ band, so a 17/18 couple wouldn’t be straight up criminalal.

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
      208·
      4 days ago

      Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

      • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
      • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

      I’m kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

      • drath@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

        Gig workers and 2-2-3/7-7 shifters that are often forced to work on the off-days:

        people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

        It’s mostly “people younger than 16 should not have sex with people 18 or older”, because legal age does not match age of consent. Even then, there are some regions that tend to disagree, most notably China, Central Europe and South American countries that put the lower bound to as low as 14. But it still leaves 18-year olds to be open for grooming by perverts of any age. And that, according to DHS, 8% of women had sex with somebody before reaching the age of 14, 41% had it before age of 16, and 67% before 18, putting any such “dogma” into further questioning.

        Disclaimer: Not proposing anything here, just pointing that answers to those questions are far from being settled upon.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        27·
        4 days ago

        5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

        I question this, it’s way too much labor with not enough compensation.

    • dandylion@lemmy.zip
      61·
      4 days ago

      thank you. very important to share here.

      unfortunately I’ve heard similar phrasings and ideas expressed by 20- and 30-something year olds in the gaming community. still has me feeling unwell.

      • HereIAm@lemmy.world
        12·
        3 days ago

        Jpeg XL is such an unsexy name though. (In my opinion) JPEG is already seen as an ancient format, there are plenty of even main stream memes about it’s artifacting quirks. And now you just want to slap more stuff on it? Make it extra large. Sounds like bloat to me!

        To be real for a second; I’m sure it’s a fine format and suited for the future, but the name really does put me off it a bit 😄

        • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I do kinda agree. That’s everyones first impression when I talk about it. So you want bigger jpeg?

          Just call it jxl I think.