• lemonaz@lemmy.world
    40·
    5 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.

  • calango@programming.dev
    90·
    6 days ago

    this guy wouldn’t pay for sex

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

      • PokerChips@programming.dev
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah but everyone in the files are no surprise. Linus would definitely be surprising. You can probably picture everyone that is in the files and you will probably be correct.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1516·
    6 days ago

    By this logic, anyone who doesn’t believe in Marxist Leninism shouldn’t use Lemmy. I don’t like Windows for other reasons, but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all. You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      52·
      5 days ago

      Raping children is what you call ‘not perfect’?

      No, simply no — try that comment again only do it without defending child rapists.

    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
      4·
      6 days ago

      You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

      Who is talking about people that are perfect in every way? Do you think that people believe that Linus Torvalds is perfect? He is not. We don’t need people to be ‘perfect’, but not being part of a child molesting ring is good start.

    • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
      112·
      6 days ago

      Did you just put someone wanting to better people’s lives through his critic of capitalism as the same as being a billionaire pedophile.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
        34·
        4 days ago

        To be fair, Marxism has killed a fuckload of people.

        Edit oh no people down voting who don’t like the truth

        • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
          11·
          4 days ago

          Nowhere in marxism does it say murder x group of people. But in a lot of capitalist ideologies like nazism or zionism it is the norm.

          • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
            11·
            4 days ago

            It doesn’t have to say to do it when it just consistently happens. It’s what we call the quiet part. Sometimes the quiet part gets said out loud but not always. We do get little peeks here and there even when people aren’t being mass murdered. Like when anti marxists get murdered and their deaths are widely celebrated amongst marxists.

            • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 days ago

              You also say the quiet part for capitalisms deaths? Or do just go with the flow. Millions of people die from hunger, not because we can’t feed them, just because its not profitable to do so. Same with vaccines, no profit from saving people so let them die. Its the most selfish system. At least the communists didn’t starve people on purpose.

              • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                My family’s early 1900s experience with Russia did involve that. I’m no lover of capitalism either but most starvation happens for political reasons not supply. Evil people in power don’t care regardless of the economic system.

                • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  I agree that evil people regardless of ideologies are the reason. But then why would marxism with its goal of equality be the sole cause for death. Cuba is a good example, trump openly said he wants the people of cuba to starve through his sanctions on oil. Is the socialist leadership to blame or the aggresor?

    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
      81·
      6 days ago

      but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all.

      The data windows collects about you goes in the hands of people involved in a pedo sexual abuse scandal. You should be indeed concerned

    • el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      51·
      6 days ago

      If we were talking about a company that makes toasters or bicycles or something I might agree with you. When it comes to an OS though, that’s where you store all your personal information and interact with your digital life. An OS can be updated to include malicious features and backdoors. The morality of the executives at the company making the OS could have a direct effect on you, moral arguments aside.

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      6 days ago

      Take it a bit more lightly my guy. 1st It was a joke. 2nd it was stated as a reason to use linux not the sole statement that makes windows completely irrelevent.

  • PryDer@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 days ago

    Sadly, Linux has a lot of issues on my laptop that I’m not able to fix. When they’ll implement new drivers in the kernel I’ll try again…

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
      1·
      5 days ago

      Weird, Linux always worked for me on pretty much any computer I ever threw it on, apart from a issue on an old (pre nvidia-open) Asus ROG laptop where it would kernel panic sometimes when resuming from sleep when using nvdia and video going black after screen going to sleep when using the Trident driver on historical pentium 3 era machines.

      Overall for the great majority of laptops linux works perfectly fine out of the box. When in doubt buy Thinkpads, those are warrantied to work well, any if there’s a quirk it will be properly documented together with it’s fix.

      • PryDer@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Lenovo Legion absolutely self destroyed the first time I installed Linux. Graphic driver crashed all the time, touchapd was dead and the speaker were not working (and some other minor issues). I tried some fix but I was really investing a lot of time into it and, while fun, I had work to be done. I’ll be happy to give it another try soon tho, maybe I’ll dual boot with Windows

    • shane@feddit.nl
      1·
      5 days ago

      I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted.

      I’m a long time Linux user and cannot get everything on my laptop to work (just the built in microphone, but still).

      • HereIAm@lemmy.world
        12·
        6 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
          3·
          5 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.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      144·
      6 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·
        5 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·
          5 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.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 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.

          • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            5 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.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        84·
        5 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·
          5 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.

    • dandylion@lemmy.zip
      51·
      6 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.

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
      218·
      6 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
        6·
        5 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
        28·
        6 days ago

        5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

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