[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also love that reactionary bit about being Finnish, and history. One of the users in the commit comments took issue with it too, maybe you saw this one already:

A few more good ones that resonate with me:

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[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The entirety of Torvalds' angry tantrum in response to the backlash, posted about 17 hours ago (emphases mine):

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

So, Russia taunts this bitter man in his dreams, it would seem. Russia in his laundry. Russia in his fucking corn flakes. Nanoscale Russian worker gnomes in his CPU changing the words of news articles he reads. It couldn't possibly be that fucktons of people out there see this political Western-influenced kernel clownshow for what it is, or that they might disagree with Western narrative on global issues. Russia Russia Russia! Dude sounds like the average reactionary USian did when China was at the forefront of COVID news.

In a follow-up he posted:

I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

In asserting that his toys are his and nobody else is allowed to look at them, he sounds like someone who's been watching way too much Alex Jones.

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes he is, and always was. His 'techbro asshole' archetype was a point of immense pride among his devoted followers, it was most visible on slashdot and newsgroup discussions back in the late 90s to early 00s. My personal take is that he's an undiplomatic, impatient, total prick, always has been and still is, regardless of whatever personal redemption arc people claim he took on in recent years.

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 month ago

The cylinder in which porky and pals sat was the center segment that imploded and shattered. The hemispherical end cap (not pictured) and tail portion which held the support hardware (shown in the screencap) were bolted to either end of the deathtube.

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 4 months ago

This reactionary shitstain getting iced by some rifle-toting kid from his own side of the political spectrum is the most poetic justice shit I've seen in years. I'm genuinely happy for his death. The world is a slightly better place with people like this in the ground.

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 months ago

Every time I see these reports, I think of how Porky doesn't seem interested in hiring fucking anyone for the supposedly open jerbs that already existed. This shit is nothing more than porn for shareholders and investors.

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Cars are getting dumber (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4710961

YouTube user Drew Gooden made a great video and rant about regressions in modern car design from his perspective as a driver, with a large portion of the time dedicated to our favorite abomination: the Cybertruck. He also touches on those fucking brighter-than-daylight headlights that have been proliferating for several years now which anyone here, forced to own and drive a car to maintain the most basic existence, likely has seen in person.

Alternate Invidious link

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Cars are getting dumber (www.youtube.com)

YouTube user Drew Gooden made a great video and rant about regressions in modern car design from his perspective as a driver, with a large portion of the time dedicated to our favorite abomination: the Cybertruck. He also touches on those fucking brighter-than-daylight headlights that have been proliferating for several years now which anyone here, forced to own and drive a car to maintain the most basic existence, likely has seen in person.

Alternate Invidious link

[-] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago

Proles in the U.S. be like: "First time?"

Across England, 83% of dental surgeries were refusing to accept adults as patients seeking NHS care

This sounds like the class discrimination that comes with U.S. states' medicare programs. A state here never has enough funding to meet the high financial cost of many medical practitioner fiefdoms, so the poor and most needy get de-prioritized and kicked to the curb. Waiting times for care are long and few places will take such patients, in addition to giving only the bare minimum of material assistance (i.e. the cheapest "get them out the door" fix for their ailments). Story as old as time under privatized capitalist healthcare regimes.

“Further measures to improve access and increase the number of NHS dentists through our dental recovery plan will be set out shortly.”

access

Being a citizen of Burgerland I twitch reflexively when I see that in healthcare discussion.

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