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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 7 points 17 hours ago

16 hours ago? Here on Lemmy, we're really up to speed with current events are we.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Linus would agree that he's one of the all-time assholes in world history, but sometimes his heart is in the right place.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He has a harsh, no-bullshit way of saying stuff

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll always take a good person who says bad things over a bad person who says good things.

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Same, but luckily those aren't the only two options.

Torvalds' particular brand of constructive criticism tends to be insulting and demeaning rather than simply "direct". We can acknowledge that without deflecting to worse people.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, we can accept that we're all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It's downright offensive.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

I had no idea he was this based.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Pretty based if you ask me

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago