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, 7:46 PM
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- 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.
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 PM
little 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, 7:52 PM
@techokami heh no problem, I’m rage spitballing
- 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
Rob Landleylandley@mstdn.jpOct 16, 2026, 11:01 PM@techokami @zzt Which one? I've ripped into him a lot over the years...
- Oct 16, 2026, 11:03 PM
dexitroboperdexitroboper@aus.socialOct 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.
- Oct 16, 2026, 11:20 PM
@zzt dunno if you didn't see it but https://woof.tech/@techokami/117453095072801952 it is done
- Oct 17, 2026, 10:36 AM
@techokami ooh thank you! I’ll take a look today!
Working Class Gamesworkingclassgames@tech.lgbtOct 16, 2026, 9:18 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
d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 16, 2026, 10:22 PM@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.
aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.ioOct 17, 2026, 12:03 AM@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt what do you mean by "Intel for their CPUs"
- Oct 17, 2026, 12:10 AM
- aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.ioOct 17, 2026, 1:04 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 - aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.ioOct 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
- Oct 17, 2026, 1:54 AM
@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt honestly only the people from Intel truly know
- aburka 🫣aburka@hachyderm.ioOct 17, 2026, 1:56 AM
@techokami @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt yeah someone would have to give out some intel
The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.townOct 16, 2026, 11:00 PM@hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @techokami @zzt No way, Python was apparently developed for this OS first???
- d@nny disc@hipsterelectron@circumstances.runOct 17, 2026, 7:13 AM
@theorangetheme @workingclassgames @techokami @zzt guido van rossum worked on it!!!
Kajetan Hundhammerhundhamm@muenchen.socialOct 16, 2026, 7:58 PM- Oct 16, 2026, 7:59 PM
@hundhamm oh wow, imagine me being angry in response to an angry dickbag
fuck off
Ozzelot :ai_free:ozzelot@mstdn.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:03 PM@zzt
so far, he lives.
Oct 16, 2026, 9:54 PM- The Orange Themetheorangetheme@en.osm.townOct 16, 2026, 11:17 PM
@zzt You have articulated my own feelings very well. Thank you.
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.
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?
Mathieumathieu@fosstodon.orgOct 16, 2026, 9:15 PM- Oct 16, 2026, 9:48 PM
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. 🤬
Heathen 🐈heathen_cat@furs.socialOct 16, 2026, 11:37 PM
Oct 17, 2026, 10:09 AM- 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
- Oct 17, 2026, 10:20 AM
- 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
loStronzoRoccodesantis@mastodon.bida.imOct 17, 2026, 3:46 PM@zzt @ariaflame @synnfynn @axel Best reply today….
Kierkethumbs up convincinglyKierkegaanks@beige.partyOct 17, 2026, 10:51 AM
Oct 18, 2026, 2:56 PM@Kierkegaanks @axel @zzt@mas.to @synnfynn that's what they will tell you. that's what they tell themselves. but looking at what they say, and what they have done, in every other sphere of their activities, i don't think it's the truth.
Khaleerkhaleer@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 17, 2026, 10:22 AM
Evgeniy Latuhinmuhanga@mastodon.socialOct 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.
SackOfBones (any/all)sackofbones@kolektiva.socialOct 17, 2026, 1:52 PM- Khaleerkhaleer@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 17, 2026, 10:21 AM
@zzt never met your heroes is more true nowadays than ever before 🫠
hendrikstierhendrikstier@chaos.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:06 PM@zzt because… *gestures vaguely at everything*
Dźwiedziudzwiedziu@mastodon.socialOct 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.)
- Oct 16, 2026, 8:38 PM
@dzwiedziu ah, of course freecad is going slop, why wouldn’t it
- Oct 16, 2026, 8:38 PM
@dzwiedziu fuck me for wanting to use software
- Dźwiedziudzwiedziu@mastodon.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:40 PM
@zzt
You, me, and the Us makes three… - Dźwiedziudzwiedziu@mastodon.socialOct 16, 2026, 8:39 PM
@zzt
Being interrogated on the above by the head WIP post writer I can think about a reason or two.