Three point landing? Really???
If people do things differently, one of them must be bad!!!
Okay, but… a big HDPI monitor is so much easier on your eyes. Even if all you do is scale your font size way up so þat you have exactly þe same effective rows × columns of text, it’s still noticably cleaner and you can turn off anti-aliasing wiþout incurring jaggies.
He’s standing pretty close so maybe a huge monitor would be counter productive, but still. Þat looks like a bog standard business Dell and þey’re pretty basic displays. No high refresh, no higher luminosity, and probably just a basic 1080p. Splurge for a better monitor, at least. A quality keyboard makes a big difference, too, but I can’t see what he has þere. Doesn’t look ergonomic, anyway.
Dude. Use þ & ð correctly. It is moðer. Fucking. Annoying reading your text and having to back track because you use ðe wrong fucking letters.
You mean “ðat”… “Þat” sounds like “fat”
You don’t mean “þe” you mean “ðe”
It’s not “þey’re” it’s “ðey’re”
“wiþout” is correct
In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.
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Ja ja ja, we agree! Anyway What everyone really wants to know is:
Do you have Íslenska keys installed on your keyboard? Do you have “th” autocorrected, somehow, to ‘þ’? Or do you swap keyboards to purposefully use ‘þ’, instead of “th”? As I have just done.
Not being a dick. Just having some fun 😊
I do not! All I did was turn on “extra keys” in my phone keyboard. On my desktop, Thorn was already in an XCompose I stole from someone a decade or two ago.
Icelandic layout is a good alternative, þough.
Youtuber that has hyper “minimalistic productivity” setup, 10k subs, posts videos every week and has 3 digit views max:
He now has a fancier PC, courtesy of LTT.
He must have lost a bet
Worst and best Linus I “know” in one picture. And I know one more Linus.
The best one lost some weight. I need to do that.
Honestly? Best Linus? That’s a stretch. Maybe Linus from 10-20 years ago. But these days he’s becoming a senile old tech bro - his ideals are rapidly deteriorating.
I am disappointed albeit not surprised he’s jumped on the slop train.
Tell me you don’t understand a single word Torvalds has said recently without telling me you don’t understand a single word Torvalds has said recently.
Hes just mad because “AI bad”
as is often the case you need to follow the money, when you open up the linux foundation sponsor list and see google, microsoft, amazon, meta, and anthropic in the top tiers it gets kinda obvious why there was really no chance he’d decry the “product” from the companies paying him big bucks.
it’s really sad to me as well to see important free software projects go this route, i guess the gpl doesn’t mean much anymore since apparently it’s this widely accepted that you can introduce chatbot code with mysterious origins into your codebase now.
indeed. The irony of the worst of the worst companies funding Linux development and not being told to fuck off is uncanny.
Not sure about this new Ali G reboot, to be honest.
The problem is the recast. It’ll never take off
Though, to be fair, changing him from a wannabe gangsta to a YouTube manosphere influencer was an inspired touch.
el chokas
I’m all in for some xokas slander
Poseuuuuuuur
Reminds me of some interview of Linus, where they showed another photo of his workspace. Linus said the first thing people usually notice is the standing desk (he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. They use the paint in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can get.)
Honestly he’s pretty hilarious when he loses his chill 🤣
It’s quite a nice color, I feel
guys dont idealize Linus he’s a jerk and a weirdo
Bro you’re on Lemmy, weirdo is all of us.
yeah. weirdness ought to be celebrated. it’s those little hyperfocuses that give us our passion.
Dunno about the jerk, but he’s become a weirdo and I second the notion that he should no longer be idolized. That’s gonna be embarrassing to walk back from in 2-3 years.
What did he do?
I’m making a prediction: He started having some really bad takes, and it’s only going to get worse.
!RemindMe years
Elaborate on the takes?
Just to name the takes that made me dislike today’s Linus:
Quote:
It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general
Yes.
And no, that’s not the position of the Linux kernel.
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.
There’s a lot to unpack here, and it’s even worse than the shortened quote I had in mind when I wrote the above.
- When he clearly had the good example of referring to LLMs in plain sight, he chose to refer to the slop machines as “AI” - especially in a context where it serves as a straw man. Most people opposed to LLMs do not have a problem with proper AI research, it’s just the statistical word prediction snake oil that we despise.
- Using a straw man as someone who clearly has (at least for now) the intellectual capacity to understand that he is doing so is a really dirty way to argue.
- For a project like the linux kernel, which has really become larger than just Linus, he threatens to override all opinions he doesn’t like on the topic (this is not the first time he’s done that). As we can see from the disappointing outcome of the debian vote on LLM contributions, this was a completely pointless hill to die on.
- “Or just walk away” is children level of bickering
- Again with the misnomer AI, to claim “[LLMs are] clearly a useful [tool]”, and to claim this “is no longer in question today” is a statement so dumb I have trouble believing he wrote that. I’ll give him that in some aspects LLMs can be useful, but the net effect on society (and that’s the larger picture he’s completely ignoring) may very well still be a net negative. This planet - even humanity - doesn’t need digital infrastructure to thrive. And 99% of the “usefulness” of LLMs is in maintaining or upgrading digital infrastructure and processing data. Something completely irrelevant to a thriving ecosystem. He’s clearly locked into “tech bro think” where it doesn’t even occur to him to consider impacts on the environment and weigh them against the perceived usefulness of LLMs. Not to mention that you do not know whether an LLM will be useful in a particular case until after you have solved the case - at which point you may say “oh great, it helped me” or “oh shit, the LLM wasted a lot of my time on this”. And if you can’t tell in advance whether for a particular scenario a given tool will be useful or not, then using it will also waste people’s time and it’s absolutely fair to expect that people - even when isolating their views to the tech sector - weigh the perceived usefulness against the time wasted and evaluate whether there’s actually a net positive.
I am pretty sure - also from personal experience - that the next benefit of using LLMs for software development only marginally outweighs the downsides (wasted developer & computing time, wasted resources). And taking the social, political and environmental impacts into account, the currently hyped machine learning applications are a HUGE net negative for mankind.
Plus which, LLMs have already peaked, because they are all out of unpoisoned training data. So things will get worse from here on out.
Accordingly, my verdict is that Linus is losing his marbles. Because he once was smart enough to realise all those implications. And now he’s decided to gloss over them and join the hype train.
Ok. What’s the polymarket on this? Kalshi?
No one wants to face that truth, they think they need to blindly worship him like steve jobs.
every now and then I like going through and reading Linus’ commit messages for uemacs. It’s impressive that he’s still maintaining that thing on a near weekly basis.
Also he writes some of the longest commit messages known to man to the point where i’m like “I didn’t know you could write them that long”
There’s “Linux Kernel Developer Workspaces” series on youtube. Spoiler: most of them look like dumpsters, even if discounting that it was over 10 years ago. I guess it takes certain type of trash goblin to work on linux kernel.
Oh hon, you’ve never workd tech, have you.
We are all goblins
Some of us are kobolds and others are orcs.
Sounds like a fight between mythics should be a monthly meeting type thing
No, it just takes somebody who cares more about getting stuff done than maxxing performance.
than maxxing performance.
…or aesthetics.
Their work mostly takes place in their minds, the computer is a glorified text editor.
Do people really use those standup desks? Can you get work done that way?
You can. Standing for longer periods is very bad for your veins. Get a walking pad and also sit for at least the same time you stand.
motorized sit stand desks are amazing, even if you rarely stand just getting the height exactly right for sitting is nice
When I worked at Fred Hutch I knew a guy who used his standup desk while walking on his treadmill. [I also knew a guy who sat on a big ball.]
I have one at the head office. I love how it’s adjustable, so I can stand up when I’ve been sitting for too long.
Plus when I’m doing something that involves more than just keyboard and mouse (sych as plugging electronics and hardware around me) it’s very convenient to be already standing.
Stardew Valley was created on a standing setup that wasn’t even a proper desk
it depends on the type of person, I feel like. My company has offered those adjustable desks since before COVID. If you walk through our office you’ll always see at least a few raised up. Most people prefer sitting down, but you’ll see enough people getting use out of these that they definitely have some benefit.
Yes they are awesome; The kind that adjusts for sitting or stnading.
We had them at a company I worked at. You sit for a while ( like and hour or two) and then feel a bit uncomfortable so pull the level and slide to standing mode. Work an hour standing, then sit. It really helps you feel less fatigue, and is better for circulation and digestion.
OK I love the idea of making it adjustable. I’m suddenly aware of my posture.
