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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:34 PM
torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points
and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea
nobody operating in good faith thinks an LLM is like a compiler. this is an AI booster meme from early 2026. but torvalds has a captive audience, so his bad takes don’t need to be new. expect to see this crap parroted once again by the worst guys you know. https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451805824031590
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:37 PM
and 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.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:45 PM
and 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?
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:46 PM
mail 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.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:49 PM
hey 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.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:50 PM
you 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!
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:52 PM
it 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
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 8:00 PM
got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker
tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PM
why 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.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PM
little fucker lives and dies on unearned respect
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 16, 2026, 7:51 PM
@zzt whoops looks like I commented in an unfinished thread there
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:52 PM
@techokami heh no problem, I’m rage spitballing
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PM
@zzt I might write a more detailed version of this later on tonight, no promises
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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."
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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."
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 10:18 PM
@techokami ooh I like where this is going
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
@zzt also, shoutouts to @landley who gets an entire paragraph dedicated to the epic own he delivered to Stallman on stage
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Rob Landleylandley@mstdn.jp
Oct 16, 2026, 11:01 PM
@techokami @zzt Which one? I've ripped into him a lot over the years...
https://landley.net/notes-2010.html#19-07-2010
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 16, 2026, 11:03 PM
@landley @zzt the one where you revived busybox to have a non-GNU Linux
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dexitroboperdexitroboper@aus.social
Oct 16, 2026, 10:39 PM
@techokami @zzt The big draw with linux was that it ran on Intel 386s and so you could get a Unix workstation for half the price of Sun/DEC/SGI etc.
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 16, 2026, 11:20 PM
@zzt dunno if you didn't see it but https://woof.tech/@techokami/117453095072801952 it is done
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 17, 2026, 10:36 AM
@techokami ooh thank you! I’ll take a look today!
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Working Class Gamesworkingclassgames@tech.lgbt
Oct 16, 2026, 9:18 PM
@techokami @zzt Andrew Tanenbaum right? I remember we had books from him for our systems courses in computer science.
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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
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d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
Oct 16, 2026, 10:22 PM
@workingclassgames @techokami @zzt tanenbaum is cool as fuck amoeba is one of the five interesting OS designs ever made
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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.
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aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.io
Oct 17, 2026, 12:03 AM
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt what do you mean by "Intel for their CPUs"
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 17, 2026, 12:10 AM
@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
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aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.io
Oct 17, 2026, 1:04 AM
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt oh right the obvious backdoor
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
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
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aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.io
Oct 17, 2026, 1:50 AM
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt do we know why they chose minix, and not like yocto or whatever was the equivalent at the time
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 17, 2026, 1:54 AM
@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt honestly only the people from Intel truly know
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aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.io
Oct 17, 2026, 1:56 AM
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt yeah someone would have to give out some intel
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The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.town
Oct 16, 2026, 11:00 PM
@hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @techokami @zzt No way, Python was apparently developed for this OS first???
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d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
Oct 17, 2026, 7:13 AM
@theorangetheme @workingclassgames @techokami @zzt guido van rossum worked on it!!!
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Kajetan Hundhammerhundhamm@muenchen.social
Oct 16, 2026, 7:58 PM
@zzt
Why so angry?
Fork and call it nollmux.
Or use BSD or Hurd if you don't like Linux.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 7:59 PM
@hundhamm oh wow, imagine me being angry in response to an angry dickbag
fuck off
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Ozzelot :ai_free:ozzelot@mstdn.social
Oct 16, 2026, 8:03 PM
@zzt
so far, he lives.
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S.Fynn :antifa2: :cypll:synnfynn@social.shortcircuit.bar
Oct 16, 2026, 9:54 PM
@zzt
So much YES in this thread.
PREACH
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The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.town
Oct 16, 2026, 11:17 PM
@zzt You have articulated my own feelings very well. Thank you.
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Abhiramaxel@social.glitched.systems
Oct 16, 2026, 8:16 PM
@zzt@mas.to
"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.

I'm already dealing with fresh college grads who can't arrive at solutions without prompting, it's extremely alarming every time I run into these people in classes.

Also, as an aside, the people who are okay with slopping code but don't like it when art is slopped are a whole other enigma to me. Like, do you just not value your work? Is that it?
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Mathieumathieu@fosstodon.org
Oct 16, 2026, 9:15 PM
@axel @zzt yup, I ask myself the same question everyday. I’m sure they used to value their work, I’m sure ….
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S.Fynn :antifa2: :cypll:synnfynn@social.shortcircuit.bar
Oct 16, 2026, 9:48 PM
@axel @zzt
Altman 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. 🤬
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Heathen 🐈heathen_cat@furs.social
Oct 16, 2026, 11:37 PM
@synnfynn @axel @zzt
The goal is to destroy our ability to easily find facts so they can have the models tell us whatever is convenient for the fascist capital class.
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Ariaflameariaflame@masto.ai
Oct 17, 2026, 10:09 AM
@synnfynn @axel @zzt OK now that's getting a bit too paranoid. They aren't destroying the books to prevent us getting them. Most of them are too rare to have many copies out there. They're just grabbing anything
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 17, 2026, 10:16 AM
@ariaflame @synnfynn @axel they’re doing more than just destroying rare books in their repeated attempts to be the only source remaining for the data they’ve consumed for training
2026 is perhaps a poor year to accuse someone else of being a bit too paranoid
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Ariaflameariaflame@masto.ai
Oct 17, 2026, 10:20 AM
@zzt @synnfynn @axel Oh, you have evidence that they are destroying multiple copies of the same rare, and thus probably old and not terribly relevant to modern day books? Please, do provide.
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 17, 2026, 10:22 AM
@ariaflame @synnfynn @axel yes we do! it’s extremely easy to find actually
but I notice you avoided the point of my post, and are now sounding like a fucking asshole who wants an internet debate on a Saturday
feel free to go find the news article yourself, you weird fucking dickhead
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loStronzoRoccodesantis@mastodon.bida.im
Oct 17, 2026, 3:46 PM
@zzt @ariaflame @synnfynn @axel Best reply today….
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Khaleerkhaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 17, 2026, 10:22 AM
@axel @zzt It's just a too!
No it's not. It is a fucking service that steals whatever you do to begin with.
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Evgeniy Latuhinmuhanga@mastodon.social
Oct 17, 2026, 10:23 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.
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SackOfBones (any/all)sackofbones@kolektiva.social
Oct 17, 2026, 1:52 PM
@axel The reason they don't care about slopware is because they were tricked into thinking code isn't art. @zzt
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Khaleerkhaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 17, 2026, 10:21 AM
@zzt never met your heroes is more true nowadays than ever before 🫠
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hendrikstierhendrikstier@chaos.social
Oct 16, 2026, 8:06 PM
@zzt because… *gestures vaguely at everything*
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Dźwiedziudzwiedziu@mastodon.social
Oct 16, 2026, 8:36 PM
@zzt
Being angry is a warranted response.
(I'm not more angry as I burnt it up on the FreeCAD slop-acceptance/wake thread being asked do I know FreeCADs processes enough to be allowed to have my voice heard.)
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 8:38 PM
@dzwiedziu ah, of course freecad is going slop, why wouldn’t it
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[object Object]zzt@mas.to
Oct 16, 2026, 8:38 PM
@dzwiedziu fuck me for wanting to use software
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Dźwiedziudzwiedziu@mastodon.social
Oct 16, 2026, 8:40 PM
@zzt
You, me, and the Us makes three…
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