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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago (19 children)

In Europe, Linus is probably right of centre. Just let anyone do whatever except walk around with a gazillion firearms because that’s just insane.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 80 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The Right doesn't care what people actually believe.

They happily quote MLK on a daily basis.

Ray Bradbury was always anti-fascist, but he called out President Obama because there were no space missions during the Obama terms. After Bradbury died the Right tried to cherry pick quote to make him look like a life long Republican.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

per Bradbury's Wikipedia Article

"Bradbury considered himself a political independent.[83] Raised a Democrat, he voted for the Democratic Party until 1968. In 1952, he took out an advertisement in Variety as an open letter to Republicans, stating: "Every attempt that you make to identify the Democratic Party as the party of Communism, as the 'left-wing' or 'subversive' party, I will attack with all my heart and soul."[84] However, Lyndon B. Johnson's handling of the Vietnam War left Bradbury disenchanted, and from 1968 on he voted for the Republican Party in every presidential election with the exception of 1976, when he voted for Jimmy Carter. According to Bradbury's biographer Sam Weller, Carter's inept handling of the economy "pushed [Bradbury] permanently away from the Democrats".[83]

Bradbury called Ronald Reagan "the greatest president" whereas he dismissed Bill Clinton, calling him a "shithead".[85] In August 2001, shortly before the September 11 attacks, he described George W. Bush as "wonderful" and stated that the American education system was a "monstrosity".[86] He later criticized Barack Obama for ending NASA's crewed space flight program.[85]

In 2010, he criticized big government, saying that there was "too much government" in America, and "I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometimes this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be".[85] Bradbury was against affirmative action, condemned what he called "all this political correctness that's rampant on campuses", and called for a ban of quotas in higher education.[21][85] He asserted that "[e]ducation is purely an issue of learning—we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics".[21]"

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (12 children)

TIL Linus is capable of decency. Occasionally.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, it's true: Linux is woke. And DEI. And gay.

We need to get Elon Musk and the DOGE team on this, stat!

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (16 children)

To be fair what he's described is at most Progressive. The left rejects the current economic model as a start. Workers owning the means of production instead of an owner class.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t really know much about his personal politics, but his work seems to speak pretty loudly about rejecting the idea of software as private property to be bought and sold by capital, which, you know, that’s more than just progressive, even if it’s just in one area.

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

I'm sorry, and I don't want to be disrespectful or rude, but as a person who has no clue about computers I am very surprised the creator of Linux is still alive. I somehow thought he is super old and probably dead by now or at least not using the internet. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the many interesting replies, I've learned a lot of random stuff which I greatly appreciate!

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Computer aren’t very old! Most of the pioneers are still alive and kicking

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's the thing, my dad was one of the first informatics people (computer based algebra in Russia and Germany) and my mom did her thesis on how to design a cigar shaped body in 3D on a computer. But they are in their mid to late 60s now and my dad went from being a professor of IT to "how do I open the internet" so my confusion is based on bias from my family. All his former colleagues also didn't stay up to date with technology and they worked for an elite university in Germany.

Anyway, good that they are alive and kicking! And glad their kicks are not so random as my folks'.

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The people that invented the internet are still using it!

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A good benchmark is Windows 95, and that was only 30 years ago.

It's easy to remember because the 95 means 1995. And 19 means the before fore times our ancestors are from.

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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I got all excited cause I saw that Linus had a mastodon account and I went to follow and saw that I already followed and he hasn't posted since early last year..... ah well, good on ya 2023 Torvalds

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