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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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[–] eighty@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can relate to the "how the fuck is being a concerned human being extreme/poltical?" energy in the post hard.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Hate is mainstream politics now, sadly. So yes, not hating is political as well.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That's what "being political" means. Otherwise you'd be apathetic, cynical and not concerned about anything.

[–] flibbertigibbet@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Political? For everyone outside of America that's just common sense.

[–] LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Canada it’s starting to become “political” since our morons are egged on by the morons down south.

[–] HomoScotian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so exhausting, they treat it like a sport, it's not about making anyone's lives better it's all just about their team winning

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[–] xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Hello I'm a trans person from the UK here to tell you this is sadly not the case at all.

[–] caribou@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Politics used to be something people engaged in. Now politics is the core to a lot of people's identities, which means disagreement or debate is perceived as a personal attack and people will embrace a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance to avoid being wrong.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I despite this “trend” of considering just simple opinions and basic statements as “political”. It’s been watered down and turned into a meaningless tag.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what's on his mind. And it's almost always massively based. He's always been great about that, we don't deserve such a great mind.

[–] CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Remember the time with the anti vaxxer, man was firing with all cylinders

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[–] raccoon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Hard fisagree. Linux isn't political. Everyone has an opinion, it's obvious Linus would too. But I am pretty happy that his opinion is one I personally agree with. Linux can be uaed by anyone though, and nothing stops far right activists (terrorists) from making a distro, which would still be Linux. There's a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn't make Linux as a whole religious.

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FOSS is an active political statement!

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was just coming here to say that. The entire Ethos of Open Source is basically the people owning the digital means of production. So some people really not grasp that?

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[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This fact eludes some folks.

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[–] roda@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Woman right to choose, fair enough. Regulated guns, absolutely. The less guns the better. Gay people stuff, I couldn't care less. Check.

The man said it as it should be said.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I'm not giving mine up while they have them.

Everything else he said is 100% based.

[–] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah, fascists having guns is a "randomly giving guns to any moron with a pulse" problem.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the gun law regulators generally ignore the fact that everyone and their grandma already has guns. And those with guns are not willing to do trade in programs.

I’d like to see better psych eval and requiring to re-license every so often. That should start steering the country in the right direction. Of course I don’t see this happening any time soon.

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[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't see how his, very reasonable, views makes Linux itself (more?) political. What is the point of this post?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The man can say what he wants and it's nothing to do with Linux. And, his gun stance seems fair to me. I think he is an intelligent man, and I think he's allowed to say his thoughts without some lame arse trying to tie his ideals to the OS. Move on, nothing to see here.

[–] jurrasicjonn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I was thinking as well. Why is it so hard for folks to separate what someone creates from the creator? If we found out the person who created, say, the bandaid, was a militant Nazi homophobe who advocated for marriage at the age of 6, should we feel guilty every time we need to cover a cut or scrape?

Personally, I don't know much at all about Linus, what he prefers for breakfast, whether he wears slippers in the house or goes barefoot, and so on. He could staunchly advocate that my country do away with its present form of government and declare him dictator for life for all I care.

I like Linux. I use Linux. It gets the job done. End of story.

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Gloating? Complaining? I thought the FOSS community has matured past "creator's views = views of everyone who uses their creation", honestly. And isn't Linus supporting the Democratic party already well known?

[–] ElectronSoup@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen people on other sites malding about how this proves linux and the GPL are communist. I suppose it's important to know just what those people are melting down about this week.

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Surely that already happened in the Code of Conduct drama a few years back? Or the "Linus is rude and difficult to work with" callout even before that?

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[–] Puls3@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

One great thing about about software is you don't have to agree with or care about what the creators thoughts and beliefs are, software is at the end of the day just software.

Doesn't get any less political than that.

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[–] eoli3n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

social.kernel.org : one should migrate to lemmy :°

[–] Devgard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

lol i read gun regulation as pro-gun.

glad to be proven wrong :)

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[–] RenaHersch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit a based Linus is not what I expected to see today. Makes me prefer Linux even more than I already did.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would you use for a synonym for based? I keep seeing that used. I always thought it was just some alt-right meme bullshit, but I'm learning I was wrong. I still don't get the use. My mind always thinks "based on what?"

[–] ott@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Based" is typically used to describe someone who says/does something without caring if they'll be judged for it. Most commonly, it's shorthand for "That's a controversial opinion and you are bold for saying it, but I agree with you." It turns the previous sentence into an adjective, which is a little weird but it makes sense eventually.

So if I had to choose a single word as a synonym, I would say "Bold".

[–] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck, I love that guy even more now. I didn't know that was possible.

[–] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

comrade linus 🫡🫡

but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷‍♀️

[–] subca@opensocial.at 1 points 1 year ago

@juergen @k_o_t A paranoic fascist here.

[–] _calm_bomb_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if you joke or not, but thinking finnish = communist is too far away from any truth. I lived and still live in an ex-communist country and let me tell you: nothing Linus says or does is communist in any way. Socialist? Maybe! But that's a different discussion.

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[–] Maerman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. I love watching this man take a stance.

[–] maddison@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

average based Linus take.

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