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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 152 points 11 months ago

Yeah, those mailing lists used to have some quite funny stuff; my favorite so far is smth along the lines of "whoever thought this was a good idea should be retroactively aborted".

But, on the other hand, damn it's toxic. Should've really sucked to work on the kernel back then.

[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 130 points 11 months ago

I was curious as I couldn't help but laugh, but damn dude. That is rough. Hilarious looking at it now, but I feel bad for whomever was at the receiving end.

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fuck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

[-] Fraylor@lemm.ee 45 points 11 months ago

That's some quality venom.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 40 points 11 months ago

Someone else pointed out that he actually apologized for being toxic sometimes and took some time off as a kernel maintainer because of that. Nice to see.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

This happened on kernel 3.8, he stepped down on 4.18. That's plenty of time time for as lot more fuckups.

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