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Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15 (www.phoronix.com)
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The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he's unhappy with some new "hdrtest" testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the "turds" it leaves behind and this code "needs to die" at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers.

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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

I believe they were insinuating that "DRM" as in "Digital Rights Management" (as the comment they were replying to had spelled out) actually has nothing to do with "rights," and further that we shouldn't let companies reframe restrictions to the user as rights of the creator, not that the comment they replied to is wrong about which "DRM" is being referenced in relation to the kernel.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Precisely. I was pointing out that the accurate expansion of the acronym (in the context of copyright, not graphics rendering) is the one as explained in https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm, not the self-serving loaded language pushed by the copyright cartel.

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