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I don't use or follow Linux but I do stumble upon news about it here and there, and I saw a video just a month or so ago, about Linus going off on RISC-V etc.

Maybe it was this, not sure, not gonna go dig it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8Gb7Ikm2o



That video could have been an article. He's literally reading out what's written in a pull request.


The point is Linus is still a dick, no matter what “Being nicer” classes he takes, and people here are still fanboying for him.


That one is comparatively nicer than some of the older stuff telling people to stop deepthroating Microsoft or to kill themselves or to shut the fuck up.

That said I really didn’t that that contributor creating a helper function like that to do some bitwise stuff was such a big deal, I think Linus overreacted and I don’t even know that I agree with his take that on it, but I do think it is probably bad to have a big change like this late in the release window.




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