Oct 16, 2026, 7:37 PMand I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.
that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.
Oct 16, 2026, 7:45 PMand hey, you know what? the linux kernel boy wants to pretend he can’t see a single difference between an LLM and a compiler or an editor?
sure thing, kernel boy
the fuck was that CS degree again for? did you have your little brother write your code and take credit for it or something?
Oct 16, 2026, 7:46 PMmail back your degree, fucker, we’ve proven beyond doubt you never completed your compilers requirement. we’ll fix the mistake your registrar made when they granted it.
Oct 16, 2026, 7:49 PMhey given that you like stochastic bullshit so much, how about this
all of linus torvalds’ success writing kernel code happened by chance. he is a fraud.
that’s exactly the same as using an LLM. prove me wrong, little fucker.
Oct 16, 2026, 7:50 PMyou won’t, you don’t have any brain left in your fucking head. we know what happens to mid little fucks who embrace the slop machines. people who actually completed their degrees researched it!
Oct 16, 2026, 7:52 PMit is currently day 0 of linus torvalds being unable to prove he isn’t a fraud who stumbled into or plagiarized all the code he wrote
start the fucking counter, right next to the “days since AGI with no general intelligence found” counter
Oct 16, 2026, 8:00 PMgot my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PMwhy would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?
and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PMlittle fucker lives and dies on unearned respect
Oct 16, 2026, 7:48 PM@zzt man things would be a lot different if stallman ripped off the BSD kernel instead of trying to cook up one from scratch based on someone else's thesis
Oct 16, 2026, 7:51 PM@zzt whoops looks like I commented in an unfinished thread there
Oct 16, 2026, 7:54 PM@zzt But yes, the entire reason Linux became big was because the GNU Mach kernel project was in development hell, and then Linus posted a hobby project as part of a rebuttal to a debate with one of his professors that was Good Enough to make the GNU coreutils standalone. Hell, remember the original posting Linus made? He never wanted it to become big! But it did anyway and now we're all paying the price
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PM@zzt I might write a more detailed version of this later on tonight, no promises
Oct 16, 2026, 10:00 PM@zzt teaser for the thing I am writing:
"This resulted in Stallman taking the first draft of his unhinged plans to make a UNIX replacement and nailing them to the doors of the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups in September of 1983."
Oct 16, 2026, 10:18 PM@zzt another teaser, I love this line I wrote:
"apparently Berkeley pulling off a Ship of Theseus with the entire UNIX operating system really pissed off the phone company."
Oct 16, 2026, 10:18 PM@techokami ooh I like where this is going
Oct 16, 2026, 10:19 PM@zzt yeah I'm hitting the weird shit in UNIX history to talk about this one kid's hobby project
Oct 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
@techokami @zzt Which one? I've ripped into him a lot over the years...
Oct 16, 2026, 11:03 PM
@techokami @zzt Andrew Tanenbaum right? I remember we had books from him for our systems courses in computer science.
Oct 16, 2026, 9:59 PM@workingclassgames @zzt Yeop! Andy made a academic-only UNIX clone that was part of the inspiration as well as part of Linus' coursework
@workingclassgames @techokami @zzt tanenbaum is cool as fuck amoeba is one of the five interesting OS designs ever made
Oct 16, 2026, 10:26 PM@hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt if Minix wasn't licensed to be academic-only until the 2000s things would be much more different
shame nobody wants to revive Minix 3. Except Intel for their CPUs.
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt what do you mean by "Intel for their CPUs"
Oct 17, 2026, 12:10 AM@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt oh right the obvious backdoor
Oct 17, 2026, 1:45 AM@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt it runs Minix 3
Every computer with an Intel CPU is running Minix
Andrew has won the war
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt do we know why they chose minix, and not like yocto or whatever was the equivalent at the time
Oct 17, 2026, 1:54 AM@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt honestly only the people from Intel truly know
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt yeah someone would have to give out some intel
Oct 16, 2026, 8:38 PM
Oct 16, 2026, 9:54 PM
Oct 16, 2026, 8:16 PM"when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal"I don't understand how more people don't see this. They're strip-mining the internet and selling it back to you via taps that they control. It's crazy to me that people are so quick to willingly surrender to what is clearly a new form of mass oppression that's taking root.
Oct 16, 2026, 9:48 PMAltman did say:
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for," he added"
Source: https://archive.ph/Rh1tM
It's why they've had books destroyed after scanning them for AI, with the intention of forcing us to depend on AI's regurgitated output when they originals can no longer be found.
This is by design and goes beyond just AI vomit infecting open source. 🤬
Oct 17, 2026, 10:09 AM
@axel @zzt
>> Like, do you just not value your work? Is that it?
I work with many people in the corporate structure and "not putting a value in their work" is exactly one of the reasons why they are fine with all this AI-bullshit.
They are just exchanging their time for money. Nothing more. No value creation happening.
And for some people the only time they started to create "value" is when they used LLM to make a lot of work that looks "professional". And this hooks them very bad.
Oct 16, 2026, 8:03 PM@zzt he is absolutely going to take the kernel closed source. dude is seething https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451818001188131
Oct 16, 2026, 8:54 PM@tael @zzt This is the message Torvalds sent that I read the other day that pissed me off so badly that, even though I was already struggling with insomnia, *made it worse*.
(it did get me to stop looking at my damn phone). It's just such an angry, self-righteous, and absolutely fucking *wrong* take we've seen so many times. And he's being such a huge fucking baby about it (just like, as stated, every other booster). And it's coming in response to one kernel developer just trying to put up *some* reasonable expectations and trying to push back against the idea that they don't need to train new people in kernel development.
Oct 16, 2026, 8:56 PM@tael @zzt "It's just a tool, like a compiler" no it isn't "just like autocomplete" no it isn't "just like blah blah blah" no it isn't! It is, hilariously enough, something new and unique that is somewhat unlike anything that has come before! That does not mean it is *good* or that it does what you are claiming it does. It is very good at: attacking labor, providing justifications for shitty behavior, enclosure, propaganda, and misinformation. It's pretty much shown to be "not that useful" for everything else when any reasonable metrics are applied to it.
He's definitely 6 months to a year behind on his propaganda and that is really frustrating since he effectively gatekeeps the kernel, which is wildly goddamn important.
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