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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mostly it changes the version number.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the Linux 6.19 release announcement:

"I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I'm getting to the point where I'm being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to be called 7.0."

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

may present as [...] lower-than-average intuitive perception of [...] certain aspects of sarcasm

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

as an observer, i appreciated this clean and efficient exchange of information

[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

As another observer I appreciate you

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've had considerably more replies on Lemmy from people who definitely don't understand how sarcasm works, than on Reddit. As a likely autistic person who will live and die by snark, I find this annoying.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because Reddit is 90% bots now.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they better at detecting sarcasm?

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah because by "bots" I mean sweatshop workers in Vietnam and Thailand.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This finally explains why he makes weird major version switches. Because it's certainly not semantic versioning.

It's never been SemVer.